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I’m always more interested in their characters (maybe because hey I’m a girl too, so we’ve got that in common) and disappointed when all they get to do is play second fiddle to the main man when they’re usually more badass than they are anyway. I’m thinking along the lines of Clash of the Titans, Io is far more interesting than the Aussie doofus, heck even Andromeda is, she’s willing to sacrifice herself. In Chronicles of Riddick, Kyra got some real issues/story going on (lets not go into how she was hanging around in some horrendous jail for YEARS just waiting for the male lead to show up) and then she throws it all away for the hunk (I know I watch some god-awful films, but I love a good stupid action/adventure story - and there’s a cross over there in Alexa Davalos, but that’s by the by) 

Pretty much everywhere you look in mainstream movies, it’s always a male lead and he always has some beautiful female woman strapped to his side, who yeah kinda kicks ass, but she’s there as an after thought. And we’re meant to feel so grateful that at least we’re given that concession, that because she can fight alongside the male lead they’re equals, but really she’s just there as a poor carbon copy of the male lead. Just a stepping stone for the hero to have some grand realisation and kick some more butt.

I’m struggling as I type to think of one blockbuster film that has a single female lead, that stands up on her own, I’m sure they are out there (First one to shout Kill Bill wins! Although she’s only doing that to get back at a guy…)

Rant nearly over now, I’m sure someone’s already made this point (better) and most of the time I’ll happily sit back and watch an action/adventure film zip along on it’s usual and expected trajectory (boy fights, boy meets girl who fights, they fight each other, they fight together, everything ends happily ever after and/or one of them dies) but sometimes enough is enough and I’m just fed up with it. 

I’m really hoping The Hunger Games can prove me wrong (in the books at least this is Katniss’s story, she’s motivated by a sense of injustice and will risk anything to save her sister) and if anyone else can think of some great exceptions please please please let me know, because they must be plenty, I just can’t think of any right now. *EDIT* Haywire, Hanna and Run Lola Run, haha I thought of some!

Fingers crossed for Brave too.  

*rant over, we now return you to your usual scheduled programming*

keeden-monster:

“OH YES SPELL IT WITH YOUR PEAS!”

The one thing that really bugs me about this film (which I think is very good) is the fact that the “British swear” is wrong. I’m assuming they couldn’t say “twat” which is why everyone is pronouncing it “twot” (which isn’t a swearword at all). But Olive still spells it as T-W-A-T in her peas… I just don’t understand, plus they say other swearwords in the film, including I think “bollocks” at one point. So why no “twat”? 

I’ve spent too long thinking about this now…

(Source: keedenmonster)