and I forgot to mention
May. 23rd, 2004 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42Before Troy, there was a preview for some movie about King Arthur, starring Clive Owen, who bugs me a little, and Keira Knightley, who bugs me a whole lot. And she's another one of these skinny-ass actresses playing a grrl-power, let's have the movie bend over backwards demonstrating how she's as tough as the boys instead of her simply BEING as tough as the boys without having to make a big deal about it characters. I don't like those. I like Lara Croft. She didn't have to say "I am no man" or ...whatever Keira's Guenievre-in-drag-as-Braveheart says in this one. Yeah, that's right: she's Guenievre. I don't recall Guenievre being a Celtic warrior in the original myth.
At least they didn't do that too much in Troy. I don't recall how Agamemnon dies in the real story but I didn't object to how it was in the film. And they didn't have Helen go out and lop off Menelaus' head after he beat up Paris (and Paris clung to Hector's leg, crying, obviously having soiled his armor. Damn that was funny). So that was good.
If they want real positive female characters from history and myth, why not make more movies about Elizabeth I? Or Boadicea? She was pretty badass, from what I hear. Or Artemis? Or Athena? Instead of taking somewhat more familiar characters and trying to turn them into postfeminist modern gals. That's just pandering to an audience that wants to go home telling itself that feminism is irrelevant now and that women are biologically predestined to be weaker, less intelligent and less capable than men but they can do neat-looking things and have one-liners that put the men in their place, all while wearing skimpy outfits and that's what really matters (I'm not referring to Troy here. Two hours of men in skirts, many of them short, is fiiiiiine with me). It sends people home with the message that there weren't really any women in history who stood up for themselves or did anything important and we have to make things up and pretend there were because of those commie PC feminazis taking over the country. (If only.)
Where's Xena: The Movie when we need it? Yeah, they screwed around with the mythology in that but that's not what it was about. It wasn't meant to depict the mythology, it's just fantasy using some mythological characters.
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There was also a preview for Spiderman 2. I never saw the first movie. I liked the Spiderman cartoons but the movie didn't look that appealing. But I was sitting there watching the preview thinking "yeah, whatever," and then Alfred Molina busts out with the robot octopus shit and then I'm thinking "OK, Alfred Molina is officially awesome." So I'll probably catch that on video.
At least they didn't do that too much in Troy. I don't recall how Agamemnon dies in the real story but I didn't object to how it was in the film. And they didn't have Helen go out and lop off Menelaus' head after he beat up Paris (and Paris clung to Hector's leg, crying, obviously having soiled his armor. Damn that was funny). So that was good.
If they want real positive female characters from history and myth, why not make more movies about Elizabeth I? Or Boadicea? She was pretty badass, from what I hear. Or Artemis? Or Athena? Instead of taking somewhat more familiar characters and trying to turn them into postfeminist modern gals. That's just pandering to an audience that wants to go home telling itself that feminism is irrelevant now and that women are biologically predestined to be weaker, less intelligent and less capable than men but they can do neat-looking things and have one-liners that put the men in their place, all while wearing skimpy outfits and that's what really matters (I'm not referring to Troy here. Two hours of men in skirts, many of them short, is fiiiiiine with me). It sends people home with the message that there weren't really any women in history who stood up for themselves or did anything important and we have to make things up and pretend there were because of those commie PC feminazis taking over the country. (If only.)
Where's Xena: The Movie when we need it? Yeah, they screwed around with the mythology in that but that's not what it was about. It wasn't meant to depict the mythology, it's just fantasy using some mythological characters.
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There was also a preview for Spiderman 2. I never saw the first movie. I liked the Spiderman cartoons but the movie didn't look that appealing. But I was sitting there watching the preview thinking "yeah, whatever," and then Alfred Molina busts out with the robot octopus shit and then I'm thinking "OK, Alfred Molina is officially awesome." So I'll probably catch that on video.
