The way a female is portrayed in films has been pretty cookie cutter for years. How ever I think that in GI Jane back in 1997 brought up a topic that was not talked about to broadly and that was women in the military. I think the movie changed the way that people viewed woman in the military and wanted to enforce that women can contribute equally as much as men. Like many things in todays society people tend to just keep looking at them the same way they have for decades but this film brought up an important topic for woman and brought it to the fore front of conversation at the time.