Ideologies in Film

1. Ideologies in film refer to the value or message that a media tries to tries to convey to its audience. Ideologies can fall under one of two distinct categories, implicit or explicit. Explicit is an ideology that is stated out loud by a character or member of the production staff declares, while implicit is an implied ideology that requires the audience to make inferences and draw conclusions from the film.

2. Will Smith: usually plays either the action hero or the person that changes either his own life or those around him. For the action hero, he starred in the "Men in Black" series, "I am Legend" and "Hancock," while for the drama, he starred in "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Seven Pounds." He typically plays a character that is down on luck and looking for a fresh start. In his next film, he would most likely play an action hero that is trying to figure out what to do after a troubling time in his life or unsure what to do with his life after having to leave a former job.

3. Tony Stark: He grew up with a relatively easy childhood as a proven genius and was given anything he wanted. This continued until his adulthood even after the death of his father. He continued to party almost all night every night and this caused him to be easily targeted. His first opposition was his capture in a desert that pushed him far out of his comfort zone. Even though he is considered a superhero, he is appealing because he doesn't have any type of superpower just an above average intelligence, and an advanced knowledge of machinery. The viewer is manipulated into seeing stark as vulnerable, especially when the machine he needs to keep him alive starts to fail. We see Tony upset and throwing his things into a disarray to show his humanity and allow him to be more easily connected to be the viewers. Next, the camera tended to look down on Tony at this moment to continue to amplify his lack of perfection and make him seem more as an everyday person that can be happy, sad and get upset. Depending upon how the character is portrayed, the audience will be more or less able to connect. This is a lot more important in a movie series like "Iron Man" because the continuity of the series depends on the reception of the audience  to the movie. Simply put, the easier the audience connects with the character, the more they enjoy the movie and improves the likeliness another movie will be made because it is seen as another chance to make a large sum of money. Without this positive reception that is greatly dependent upon the appeal of the character, the series will be halted.
4. As time passes, films change to adapt to the current feelings of the world or of the country that it is in. For example, movies are now changing so that women are now main characters, and also characters that are not white are becoming main characters and playing roles more prevalent than a beggar or equivalent character type. For example, anytime before the mid 1960's, no filmmaker would dare to use a black character in a heroic role. Now, we have actors like Will Smith or Morgan Freeman that play in movie blockbusters. Before, no one would would've imagined an African American as an action hero or as a voice of God, such as Smith played in Men in Black and Freeman played in Evan Almighty and Bruce Almighty respectively.
5. Naturally, what we see and what we watch affects us and helps to shape our ideologies about the world. While the main purpose of a film is to entertain, they can also be used as propaganda to indoctrinate the viewer into thinking a certain way or desiring a certain result. This subconscious 'rooting' is due to the effect that the filmmaker desired. This can be due to either the camera work or editing.
6.  Suspension of Belief means that the viewer will either temporarily stop thinking about something in a specific way or ignore some facet of reality for the duration of the film. An example of this is in the movie Men in Black, as thinking the government knows of and associates with aliens and has a special task force that hunts down these aliens and labels them as criminals.
7. Since the owner or company is the funder of the movie, they have enormous input in what is put into and what is implied in the movie. Additionally, if the funder's don't like what is going on they have the authority to tell the director to change it or they can just get someone else to do it instead.