Representation of Taken 

The representation of gender in Taken reinforces traditional gender stereotypes. Liam Neeson plays the stereotypical male American action hero. He is robust, brave and intelligent in trying to figure out where his daughter is kept hostage. From his incredible skills he manages to rescue his innocent daughter and is able to put an end to the group that took his daughter. These are typical qualities associated with men in action films. The female character in the trailer lacks strength and intelligence; this supports stereotypes. From this it shows that in terrible and dangerous situations, females are useless and vulnerable when it comes to surviving or saving someone. This is quite sexist and shows a bad representation of women but is very common in Hollywood action movies. The representation of Eastern- Europeans in Taken reinforces stereotypes. Albanian people are the human-traffickers in Taken also known as Eastern-Europeans. Stereotypes would think that Albanian people are heinous and vile because they acted as the antagonists and did bad things. In Hollywood films foreigners are also the villains to show that Americans are allows the protagonists and this movie clearly exhibits this by putting a bad example on Albanians and a good example on Americans. Stereotypes will comment on that by saying all Albanians are bad. This shows a bad representation towards Eastern-European but is typical in a Hollywood movie.