Arguably the counterpart of the Steven Seagal type "tough guy", though there are much more accurate [yawn] male examples through cinema history that elude my memory-block at the moment, in terms of both cheap and expensive B-movie status.
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VIDEO EXCERPTS: ... These are just a few examples of the many intelligent, complex compassionate, brave, compelling, and well-written female characters that have emerged in the past 50 years of film and TV. Characters that have left their mark on whole generations of audiences to the point where they still resonate with people years or even decades after their creation.
But then there's a different kind of character. A shallow, trite, cheaply made, gratingly unpleasant facsimile of these excellent ladies of the Silver Screen. A phenomenon known only as the "strong female character".
[...] In fact, Emily Blunt said it better than I ever could: "It's the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words 'strong female lead'. That makes me roll my eyes. I'm already out, I'm bored. Those rules are written as incredibly stoic, you spend the whole time acting tough and saying tough things."
Oh, stop it, Emily, I can only like you so much. The thing though, is she's absolutely right on this one.
The strong female character cliche is as hollow, simplistic, and meaningless as all those soulless corporations that will happily use social movements as an excuse to sell your more useless tat that was probably made in an Indian sweatshop.
But why is this happening? What is it that makes a good female character different from a strong female character? Well, let's explore this together shall we... (MORE - missing details)
Why Modern Movies Suck: The strong female character
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https://youtu.be/xPE7-PRL0M8
VIDEO EXCERPTS: ... These are just a few examples of the many intelligent, complex compassionate, brave, compelling, and well-written female characters that have emerged in the past 50 years of film and TV. Characters that have left their mark on whole generations of audiences to the point where they still resonate with people years or even decades after their creation.
But then there's a different kind of character. A shallow, trite, cheaply made, gratingly unpleasant facsimile of these excellent ladies of the Silver Screen. A phenomenon known only as the "strong female character".
[...] In fact, Emily Blunt said it better than I ever could: "It's the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words 'strong female lead'. That makes me roll my eyes. I'm already out, I'm bored. Those rules are written as incredibly stoic, you spend the whole time acting tough and saying tough things."
Oh, stop it, Emily, I can only like you so much. The thing though, is she's absolutely right on this one.
The strong female character cliche is as hollow, simplistic, and meaningless as all those soulless corporations that will happily use social movements as an excuse to sell your more useless tat that was probably made in an Indian sweatshop.
But why is this happening? What is it that makes a good female character different from a strong female character? Well, let's explore this together shall we... (MORE - missing details)
Why Modern Movies Suck: The strong female character