WARNING: Mild Spoilers Ahead

I've been looking forward to the new Ghostbusters since the very first announcement. After all, it's the first entirely female lead concerning a major sci-fi movie. Ghostbusters is renovating the way Hollywood creates films, at least that's my hope. I'm hard-pressed to name a female director and it's become a widely known joke on social media how women are posed sexually or helpless in movie posters. This isn't surprising considering that whenever there is a woman in the lead role her sexuality is capitalized because "Sex sells".

One of the main reasons I love the new Ghostbusters is because it debunked the notion that women need to have a love interest or be seductive in order to move the plot along. Ghostbusters proves sex doesn't always sell. The four women do not have a love interest. The women use their brains and their wit and their independence in order to save New York City. Sure, one of the girls has a small crush on the receptionist but the focus of the movie never drifts from catching ghosts to "Will they or won't they?". The mild crush is there for comic relief. Abby, Holtzmann, Patty, and Erin have been brought to life in a manner which changes the game.

Hollywood's role is to tell stories to the masses, and Ghostbusters is wonderfully exciting because although it's a reboot it changes the role of women in film. It reaffirms the sentiment that women are capable of anything a leading man can do. In order to keep up with the world's diversity, Hollywood must keep rebooting itself. It must follow for the demands of the masses or else risk losing major capital.

I'm not downplaying the many accomplishments and achievements of actors or male directors in the film industry. Giving women the same unique and independent roles as men won't diminish men's roles in Hollywood. Simply, it allows us to tell and enjoy more enriched stories.