tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5676126733684584121.post4320579116010043174..comments2023-04-12T04:24:20.883-05:00Comments on Flyover Libertarian: Why there are fewer female speaking rolesTAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00260719592299142917noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5676126733684584121.post-15926517481442375792010-04-19T20:04:24.055-05:002010-04-19T20:04:24.055-05:00"I'd love to think of a minor female bad ..."I'd love to think of a minor female bad guy character. I'm sure I can ... I just haven't yet. Maybe the camp followers in Flesh and Blood?"<br /><br />In that movie, one of the female followers was killed, but the other two survived (and joined up with the soldiers who besieged them - who were from the same army as soldiers they previously had killed) without any consequences at all.<br /><br />Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan comes to mind. There were some women following Khan and they actually paid for their evil ways with their lives.TAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00260719592299142917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5676126733684584121.post-51398483624936447512010-03-08T22:33:13.489-06:002010-03-08T22:33:13.489-06:00Welcome to the blogosphere.
This is a good poin...Welcome to the blogosphere. <br /><br />This is a good point, one I'd never thought of. To sum up: <br />The top 100 biggest-grossing movies featured many action/war movies.<br />Action/war movies need bad guys, who are guys per se.<br /><br />(I'd love to think of a minor female bad guy character. I'm sure I can ... I just haven't yet. Maybe the camp followers in Flesh and Blood?)<br /><br />To this I would add:<br />There are plenty of movies in other genres with more balanced numbers of speaking parts for men and women. (Romantic comedies and drama, for instance.) These don't gross as big, but a lot of them will make it into the top 100. <br /><br />The thing is, movies geared to women, and featuring lots of speaking actresses, tend to have smaller casts. That is not a firm statistic but an observation - a romantic comedy is going to have the two leads, a bevy of friends of the female lead, and a few for the male, plus a waiter or two. Six to ten speaking roles, maybe.<br /><br />A war movie could easily have 50 speaking roles. Every time a guy gets shot and yells, "I'm hit!" he counts, right? And he counts as much as each of the four Sex and the City ladies....B322https://www.blogger.com/profile/18257802768718375656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5676126733684584121.post-12534047870555587142010-02-27T21:38:04.735-06:002010-02-27T21:38:04.735-06:00"Of course, if films started showing more &qu..."Of course, if films started showing more "bad girls," feminists would probably complain that the film industry is "promoting violence against women."<br /><br />Yup, you can never win.OneSTDVhttp://onestdv.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com