By: Maria
There’s a plot, but it’s so meta — basically Aeon and Trevor are so epically in love that whenever one or the other dies it resets the entire universe. Plus, it’s really anti-war, so the conflict...
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I LOVE that this dialogue is happening…I’ve been talking about this for years! Hooray! http://www.bestactionheroines.com/2009/11/reasons-to-love-sigourney-weaver.html
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Well, even if she was changed early on, that doesn’t necessarily mean they changed the character concept all that much. Fang had a very masculine-coded role, being Vanille’s protector, and almost all...
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Berry is caught in a similar bind when they say she’s having a break down or whatever, and for similar reasons — I think the bad cop wants to rape her too? The ghost possessed Berry to murder her...
View ArticleBy: Dani
Ahaha! That happens to me too. My creative writing class in undergrad pounded “believability” into my skull, which only adds to the detachment I feel when a female character’s appearance is the most...
View ArticleBy: K
I can only think of one film that had hot men, hot kick-ass woomen and skimpy clothes on both genders, and that would be the fifth element. Something about that film just managed to blow a few...
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By: Lisa
You’re absolutely right. If Rambo had run around in a tiny little thong, the movie would have flopped.
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<strong><a href="#comment-107511" rel="nofollow">Lisa</a></strong>, Oh, <i>hell</i>, and I just ate.
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[...] my theory that the trick to building a successful action franchise with a female lead is not sexing her up? Sigourney Weaver gets it: in reality, a woman who’s capable of doing what Ripley does...
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Jennifer, I absolutely admire your point of view and I totally agree, cause that’s what I find so attractive about one of my favourite heros (heroin) of all time, Ellen Ripley, the fact that she is a...
View ArticleBy: Audrey Brown
I LOVE that this dialogue is happening…I’ve been talking about this for years! Hooray! http://www.bestactionheroines.com/2009/11/reasons-to-love-sigourney-weaver.html
View ArticleBy: Ikkin
Well, even if she was changed early on, that doesn’t necessarily mean they changed the character concept all that much. Fang had a very masculine-coded role, being Vanille’s protector, and almost all...
View ArticleBy: SunlessNick
Berry is caught in a similar bind when they say she’s having a break down or whatever, and for similar reasons — I think the bad cop wants to rape her too? The ghost possessed Berry to murder her...
View ArticleBy: Dani
Ahaha! That happens to me too. My creative writing class in undergrad pounded “believability” into my skull, which only adds to the detachment I feel when a female character’s appearance is the most...
View ArticleBy: K
I can only think of one film that had hot men, hot kick-ass woomen and skimpy clothes on both genders, and that would be the fifth element. Something about that film just managed to blow a few...
View ArticleBy: littlem
I can give you the <i>plot</i> of Point Break, but not the character arc. :-)
View ArticleBy: Lisa
You’re absolutely right. If Rambo had run around in a tiny little thong, the movie would have flopped.
View ArticleBy: sbg
<strong><a href="#comment-107511" rel="nofollow">Lisa</a></strong>, Oh, <i>hell</i>, and I just ate.
View ArticleBy: Open Thread: Sigourney Weaver’s Aliens costume choice — The Hathor Legacy
[…] my theory that the trick to building a successful action franchise with a female lead is not sexing her up? Sigourney Weaver gets it: in reality, a woman who’s capable of doing what Ripley does...
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