What pisses me off so much about this "movies need strong women" BS is how superficial their definition of "strong" is and their willful ignorance that there have been strong women in film since the fucking silent era.
Their definition of "strong" amounts to "physically stronger than a man and flawless in moral character." So because these retards aren't writers, they don't know that's a recipe for flat, unengaging characters.
Worse than that, they totally ignore movies from the entire span of cinema that feature strong (read well-written, three dimensional) female characters; Maria Falconetti's performance as Joan of Arc is considered by many to be the greatest performance captured on film. Tough talkin', sharp witted and ambitious women are trademarks of Howard Hawkes movies from the 30s on. Ingmar Bergman has been capturing the complexities of the female psyche in his writing unlike anyone else for decades. All About Eve anyone? smh...
And then we have everything they conveniently ignore today; have you ever heard a feminist talk about how great it is that a movie like Annihilation features four female leads who are all gun toting theoretical physicists? Who do you think goes to movies like Salt, or Hanna, or Tomb Raider? It's not women. So they demand these movies be written this way for people who don't go see movies like that in the first place.
What pisses me off so much about this "movies need strong women" BS is how superficial their definition of "strong" is and their willful ignorance that there have been strong women in film since the fucking silent era.
Their definition of "strong" amounts to "physically stronger than a man and flawless in moral character." So because these retards aren't writers, they don't know that's a recipe for flat, unengaging characters.
Worse than that, they totally ignore movies from the entire span of cinema that feature strong (read well-written, three dimensional) female characters; Maria Falconetti's performance as Joan of Arc is considered by many to be the greatest performance captured on film. Tough talkin', sharp witted and ambitious women are trademarks of Howard Hawkes movies from the 30s on. Ingmar Bergman has been capturing the complexities of the female psyche in his writing unlike anyone else for decades. All About Eve anyone? smh...
And then we have everything they conveniently ignore today; have you ever heard a feminist talk about how great it is that a movie like Annihilation features four female leads who are all gun toting theoretical physicists? Who do you think goes to movies like Salt, or Hanna, or Tomb Raider? It's not women. So they demand these movies be written this way for people who don't go see movies like that in the first place.