[ferretchucker]

The Halloween saga does both. It has the innocent little damsel in distress who eventually (20 years later) fights back. many films use the woman as the weaker one who is the focus of the main character to get back. But often in these films, at one poin (usually during a fight scene near the end) that woman will show her darker, stronger side. It all really dates back hundreds of years when women were the one who had to cower in the house when the men fought. Although women are just as strong and sometimes stronger, the attitude that women are weak still remains. But i think the majority of films have at least one point when a woman fights back.