Demographics: Gender

Traditionally, the thriller and crime genres tend to be targeted at a predominantly male audience, however despite this I feel that all genres can be met with approval from all genders.

This chart indicates the ratings of the same four films that I looked at in age, but arranged by gender. As is evident, within each film the ratings are extremely close between the genders making gender in terms of targeting less of an issue for us than factors such as age or class. Particularly interesting is that the two films that are, in my opinion, most alike to ours in narrative and style, Hummingbird and Welcome To The Punch, have an gender equal rating and a more favourable rating from women respectively. This is likely to be down in some part to the casting of Jason Statham and James McAvoy, however it remains indicative of the increasingly small gap between genders when it comes to the consumption of crime thriller films.

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