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Quote reblogged from feministfilmNobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men are strong-minded. A strong-minded woman is a different animal.
Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
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SISTERS TOGETHER IN GIRLIE MOVIE-MAKING ACTION
In honor of all those women out there making films and kicking ass, I propose a new manifesto—Sarah Jacobson
Because movies that reflect a woman’s point of view are still too rare.
Because even though women are achieving incredible feats in business, politics, sports and the arts, we are still invisible unless we are the love interest or the heinous bitch (or both!).
Because women who have made films in the past have been written out of history—like Alice Guy Blache, the first narrative filmmaker (The Cabbage Fairy, 1896), who went on to run her own studio and was involved with over 700 films and has been totally left out of the history books.
Because distributors don’t pick up films made by women and critics don’t champion girl-friendly movies that do get released. (Can you name any female-directed, critic-darling movies where a woman doesn’t die at the end?)
Because the industry doesn’t know how to market to a female audience and isn’t interested in organizing one.
Because women over 35 are one of the largest movie-going audiences and Hollywood doesn’t want you to know!
Because someone made, released and gave a ton of money to Shallow Hal!
Because girls are still getting intimidated out of film school.
Because we are not going to put up with this *beep* any longer.
Because we are tired of women filmmakers and women’s stories being considered a stigma.
Here are the guidelines:
—At least one of the main characters is a woman
— The main woman character does not die at the end, especially if she flaunts moral and sexual conventions
— The main woman character does more than be helpless and/or sleep with the main man character
— No rapes against women unless it deals with the consequences
— No “glamorous” female naked corpses
— More eating pussy and clitoral stimulation scenes during sex scenes if there are any
— No shopping montages
— No makeovers
— Must have at least one guy in the cast who straight girls would want to French kiss
—No dissing of fat girls
— No male fantasy lesbian makeout scenes
— Beautiful girls only fall head over heels in love with ugly loser guys if he’s rich or gives good head
— The main woman character must have one real friend who doesn’t *beep* her over at the end because of jealousy over a man
— A woman must either be the writer or the director of the film
— TAKE YOUR CREDIT. Women, no more holding back to not intimidate others, especially if you are producing your boyfriend director. -
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Quote reblogged from you're my forever girlThe Hollywood formula could be called Boy Wants Girl, Girl Doesn’t Want Boy, Boy Harasses Girl, Boy Gets Girl. Many movies teach that if you just stay with it, even if you offend her, even if she says she wants nothing to do with you, even if you’ve treated her like trash (and sometimes because you’ve treated her like trash), you’ll get the girl. […] There’s a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: Persistence only proves persistence—it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn’t mean you are special—it means he is troubled.
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- I love ryan gosling but yeah some of his allegedly romantic movies do this a lot. that was my big issue with blue valentine. we were supposed to see that he wasn't always creepy but nope. from the get go I just wanted her to get the fuck out of there because he had no respect for her
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You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film. … There is something very distorted about this reality that they’ve created, which is that it is OK to torture women on screen. Any kind of violence towards women in a sexual scenario is fine. But give a woman pleasure? No way. Not a chance. That’s pornography.Ryan Gosling, actor and feminist, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of Blue Valentine. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene. (via romanticimp)
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Quote reblogged from but oh, that magic feelingIf there was a comedy with a bunch of dudes in it, and then there was another comedy with a dude in it, you wouldn’t be asking if it was weird to have a comedy with men coming out right after a comedy with men came out. You know what I mean? I think that points to that there’s still a discrepancy with the way women and men are viewed, especially in comedy. In my opinion, it’s about time — there’s so many funny women out there. I dare you to find three men who can contend with Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in a room together.Jason Segel, on whether Bad Teacher will be expected to perform better after the success of Bridesmaids (via)
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Today I watched, among other things, I Love You Beth Cooper, The Girl Next Door, and Easy A.
In the first, Hayden Panettiere makes out with a party store clerk for free beer and because She Is A Free Spirit. She is okay with it, because She Is A Free Spirit and also because of free beer. But then, later, Skinny Boy That She Will Inevitably See For His Heart of Gold looks at her and says, “You are better than that.”
You are better than that.
And then she got all teary-eyed and serious-faced like oh skinny dude, you have a heart of gold. By telling me what my body is and isn’t good for, I can tell that you know The Real Me, and I am not really a Free Spirit Who Likes Free Beer And/Or Sex. I am a sweet girl. I am better than that.
The Girl Next Door could be titled Successful Porn Start Saved By a High School Dude Who Likes To Speak For Her. The trope takes pretty much any form imaginable in this movie:- When the skinny dude finds out that Elisha Cuthbert is/was a porn star, he is mean to her and takes her to a motel to take advantage of her. When he realizes that that is a bad idea, he decides he no longer wants to have sex with her because you cannot like someone and also have sex with them.
- He also shows up to her lucrative porn convention in order to yell at her and tell her that she is very unhappy, and he can tell that she is not where she belongs. And she, of course, doesn’t say anything. Then he tells her producer that she is not happy, and no one asks her anything, and anyway she cries or something and shows up at his house the next day in jeans after skipping out on a $30,000 shoot.
You could say there is a version of You Are Better Than That in Easy A in that the entire film is Olive reiterating that she is not, in fact, a slut. But really, You Are Better Than That is only truly in action when it’s uttered by a man. But have no fear! In the end, the only guy who Really Likes Her is the one who believes that she would not really have sex (and he knows this because she would not kiss him when they were twelve, or something). He knows her, obviously.
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Chainsaw murder is pretty terrible, true, but if you are reading this, my guess is that you have never been murdered with a chainsaw. It’s unlikely that a movie is going to cheapen, sensationalize or trivialize your experience as a chainsaw murder victim. You have also probably never been sewn face-first to anyone else’s butt. You have probably never been eaten by a zombie. You probably have not been stalked by an evil little girl who lives in a well; you probably are not interviewing a super-genius cannibal psychiatrist; you do not have to worry that anyone is going to show up and Drag You To Hell. You can watch movies about any of these things, and enjoy the violence on an aesthetic level, because you know that you don’t have to take the feelings of zombie victims all that seriously. It’s monster makeup, Karo syrup, and food coloring. It’s not anyone’s real life.
But if you’ve been sexually assaulted, you don’t have to imagine how scary that might be. You don’t have to watch a movie to be confronted with the possibility. And you do have to take it seriously. Even if you haven’t been assaulted, it’s likely that you know someone who has. So to have this experience treated as a standard horror trope, on the level of scary ghosts and cannibal witch cults and human centipedes and other shit that just doesn’t actually happen… well, it’s irksome. Because, sure, everybody wants to see some extreme and unlikely and violent shit happen in a movie, now and again. Being shocked and scared is fun. But to have rape treated as something unlikely and bizarre, something we can enjoy based on the level of creative violence involved, isn’t actually saying that rape is “horrific.” It’s saying, on some level, that rape isn’t real.
Tiger Beatdown, “Horror Innovator Innovates Horror,” Sady Doyle on director Tom Six’s cheap exploitation of sexual assault in The Human Centipede II. (via feministfilm) -
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Quote reblogged from I DREAMED YOU WERE A COSMONAUT;Every couple of years, Hollywood remembers that there’s this weirdly esoteric, fringe-group demographic — I believe the term for it is “women” — who actually enjoy seeing their lives portrayed on screen every bit as much as men do.
Owen Gleiberman on the “surprise” success of Bridesmaids—and how it establishes Kristen Wiig as a triple-threat every bit as talented as Tina Fey.
I really really really want to see this movie.
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Quote reblogged from rosebud;!;!;!;!;!;!Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn’t masturbated already? Like, do you really think there’s anything in that scene that this chick hasn’t already tried when the lights go out at night, or in the bathroom, or in the tub, or with the shower head or something like that? I’m telling you, man, I’m not teaching this broad anything new. If I were to create a rating system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top, and assault against women. Because it’s so insanely overused and insulting how much it’s overused in movies as a plot device, a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive, yet that shit skates.
Kevin Smith (director) on the ridiculousness of movies about sex receiving NC-17 ratings while extremely violent movies get by with R ratings. (via barefeetdirtyfeet)
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This is from This Film is Not Yet Rated, for the record. Which is an amazing fantastic documentary.
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What we found was that in G-rated movies, for every one female character, there were three male characters. If it was a group scene, it would change to five to one, male to female.
Of the female characters that existed, the majority are highly stereotyped and/or hypersexualized. To me, the most disturbing thing was that the female characters in G-rated movies wear the same amount of sexually revealing clothing as the female characters in R-rated movies.
And then we looked at aspirations and occupations and things like that. Pretty much the only aspiration for female characters was finding romance, whereas there are practically no male characters whose ultimate goal is finding romance. The No. 1 occupation was royalty. Nice gig, if you can get it. And we found that the majority of female characters in animated movies have a body type that can’t exist in real life. So, the question you can think of from all this is: What message are we sending to kids?
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I will forever love her for “The Long Kiss Goodnight”. Rock on, Geena.
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Tell me again who thinks women and men are equal in America?
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