Yea, I do hope that one day Nolan will make a great film with a lead female instead of a male. He was close to making one, called The Keys to the Street which had a female lead but the screenplay was terrible and I'm glad he never made it.
Really? How fascinating. Maybe he needed to give it ten years work, like Inception.
But I think a lot of movies, not just Nolan's movies, have more supporting male characters than females. Like Harry Potter for instance, we have Hermione and Ginny but the rest of the majority of sides and leads are male.
It's a thing with the majority of movies, certainly, and I could write screeds about most writers and directors but I brought it up with Nolan because he was on my mind and I dearly love pulling apart works and artists I admire. But actually, with Harry Potter, I think the women put up a good show. Yes, probably still more men than women but you've got Molly Weasley, Professor McGonagall, Professor Trelawney, Luna, Cho, Tonks, Lavender, and Fleur on the side of good, and a sliding scale of evil from Aunt Petunia to Narcissa and Bellatrix. Not all are as deeply fleshed out, but they generally represent different conceptions of womanhood,if you know what I mean.
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Date: 2010-11-07 07:38 pm (UTC)Really? How fascinating. Maybe he needed to give it ten years work, like Inception.
But I think a lot of movies, not just Nolan's movies, have more supporting male characters than females. Like Harry Potter for instance, we have Hermione and Ginny but the rest of the majority of sides and leads are male.
It's a thing with the majority of movies, certainly, and I could write screeds about most writers and directors but I brought it up with Nolan because he was on my mind and I dearly love pulling apart works and artists I admire. But actually, with Harry Potter, I think the women put up a good show. Yes, probably still more men than women but you've got Molly Weasley, Professor McGonagall, Professor Trelawney, Luna, Cho, Tonks, Lavender, and Fleur on the side of good, and a sliding scale of evil from Aunt Petunia to Narcissa and Bellatrix. Not all are as deeply fleshed out, but they generally represent different conceptions of womanhood,if you know what I mean.