Have You Noticed The Direction Movies Are Going With Females Taking Action Roles In Cinema Recently?

Question

I've been looking at this for a while now.

Early 2000s we had Charlie's Angels which was a fun attempt at female power.

Then around the same time Jennifer Garner's ALIAS came on TV.

Around 2004, Uma Thurman starred in the Kill Bill's in a woman revenge movie. Very violent but lots of over the top and exagerrated scenes.

Little more recently it's getting more realistic with Jodie Foster's "The Brave One"

Now it's going for more over the top but realistic violence with films like "Hard Candy" and Rosario Dawson's rape-revenge movie "Descent"

Do you like the direction cinema is going with females taking the action/revenge lead?

Answer 1

As we trend towards gender equality (which can never be achieved, but that's another story), we see that it is more and more acceptable for women to take predominantly "male" roles...

I frankly don't care whether it's a woman or a man with the lead role in an action movie... as long as it's believable.

Answer 2

Yes, it's far more realistic. In the old films the women would be the pathetic damsels in distress. Tomb raider rocks!!

Answer 3

It's about time-thank goodness we finally have females on the big screen who do something other than scream for help and/or look pretty.

Edit: I like sci-fi so I've liked Sigourney Weaver in Aliens; Linda Hamilton in the Terminator moveis and Jennifer Garner in Elektra. On the small screen I was crazy about Lucy Lawless in Xena Warrior Princess as well as Claudia Black in Farscape and liked Jessica Alba in Dark Angels.

I liked Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena Davis too and Angelina Jolie was something else in the Tomb Raider movies and I just saw her in Wanted-whew!.

Answer 4

No I hate it.  Is that what feminists are about?  Violence and hurting others?  What is the media trying to say via this?  German citizens could not stop the n***s; how can Americans stop these

Nu n***s?  Also what is going on in America can be duplicated in other countries.  

Globalization depends upon the media to brainwash people.  The easiest way today to control a country is not thru war.  But by creating social chaos.*  This has been documented thousands of years ago.  

Setting women up to fight against men is the quickest (and easiest) way to control a country.

Mothers fighting against fathers, sisters against brothers, co-workers against each other, etc.  

Since women are more group animals, they are politically easier to control.  And since men are can be shaped by women's opinons (they are our mothers, lovers, wives, etc) the key to controlling any country is to control their women.

By brainwashing women into violence, you guarantee plenty of work for lawyers, doctors, judges, etc.  Thus we will see a lot more women being accused of Domestic Violence as the American society continues to get more violent.  

The media today has become n***s and like Goebbels, their goal is pure propaganda.**

Answer 5

i believe that giving the woman equality in our society, made that the theater turned in that direction, but to be honest most of those movies sometimes are too exagerated, but its cool if theyre believable (as someone said previously)

Answer 6

The research on domestic violence shows that women come off worse than men in a fight, but if a weapon is involved the injuries are about 50/50. However the reason women instigate violence against men is not usually revenge, contract killing etc, but because...

"Women stated that they expressed aggression toward their male partners in part because they wished to engage their partner's attention, particularly emotionally. Also assaultive women did not believe that their male victims would be seriously injured or would retaliate" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/91293...

I don't like movies that glamorise violence, and the portrayal of women as violent heroes simply panders to a misguided notion of what it means for women to be equal to men.

Answer 7

I have always enjoyed films that feature adventurous heroines.  I don't like films that are too heavy though.  I enjoyed 'Cutthroat Island' very much, Geena Davis made a really good female pirate I thought.  And I loved Michelle Yeoh in 'Magnificent Warriors' and 'Supercop', and of course 'Tomorrow Never Dies'.  'Mulan' was really good too.

Answer 8

As long as they are still required to wear tight pants, get shagged by the male star and get their norks out I'm all for it.

Answer 9

Is that so???

MYGOD, THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING...!!!

Women are entitled to their revenge, just like anyone else.

Let me see if I can think of early examples... hmmm... wheels are spinning...

'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane' (1962)

'Gaslight' (1944) - and it was the character played by Ingrid Bergman who got her revenge on her evil, manipulative, despicable, greedy RAT of a husband (played by Charles Boyer) -   hehe.

Sorry, I know they're not very "early" but I'm getting tired...