What makes it a "white male power fantasy" besides the characters being white males? If I remade Memento with a female lead, would there be something inherently male about the story still?https://twitter.com/michelamaxwell/status/1294371222646644737 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I should have been more clear. I'm specifically referring to TDK trilogy. (Bad at remembering stuff like directors' oeuvres.)
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Replying to @michelamaxwell
Ok, but let's say we make Batman a woman. Is it still somehow inherently a male power fantasy? Is it a male thing to want to sneak around in the dark and drive tanks through tunnels and be a ninja? Bc you're kinda treading on some deeply hurtful ground with that
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @michelamaxwell
relevantly, I just watched WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE on the doctor's recommendation, and it really is striking how much the last minute change of the serial killer husband into a serial killer wife changes the movie
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from a sort of generic "housewife in peril" lifetime movie to a much stranger, darker movie where the wife's prying paranoia about the serial killer's past (which might be normal in a "the straights area not okay" sense) doesn't ring justified when it's about her lesbian lover
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and so instead of being a straightforward empowerment story, i couldn't stop thinking that the serial killer was a lot cooler than her wet-blanket wife
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
Yeah, perfect example. Casting men/whites/straights/ableds in their traditional roles is loaded. You can get a totally different look at something when you switch it up.
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I still remember this short film that went locally viral in Cleveland which is just this simple cliche where a woman who's been taken hostage suddenly turns the tables on her captors, professionally and brutally kills them and reports to her superiors her mission was completed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @michelamaxwell and
And it went viral *only* because the main character is played by a middle-aged heavyset Black woman, someone whose "type" reads as "Mom" Which was completely an accident -- the filmmakers were just trying to demonstrate their stunt choreography chops on the cheap
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The only stunt person they could get on short notice was someone older And it totally transforms the story from being something we've all seen a hundred times before into something big and empowering
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Replying to @arthur_affect @michelamaxwell and
People loved it because it was genuinely a surprise, the character was someone pop-culture coding genuinely has primed us to expect will be the victim, who exists in this narrative to suffer (which wouldn't even be the case to the same degree if she were 20 years younger)
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