It is untrue that no one had ever put a woman in an action movie before Jennifer Lawrence in Hunger Games.
It is absolutely true that Hollywood had and has a real bias against women driven action movies because of this ridiculous belief about who identifies with whom.
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Part of the problem is that previous successes were often dismissed as being successful for reasons other than their being female driven action: Alien is a monster movie. Kill Bill is Tarantino. Titanic was epic romance. Twilight is YA.
They're all female driven action.
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And female driven action has made money in Hollywood since time immemorial, just like male driven action has.
But just like so many other kinds of films, the industry ignores the data, because they're wed to conventional wisdom that is all convention, and no wisdom.
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Anyway, shoutout to who saw Hunger Games immediately for what it was and was able to get it for a song because literally almost everyone else in town passed on the manuscript.
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It probably depends on the movie, actor, and character. But I think the larger point is that studios wouldn't care about that, because they saw men as the main audience for action movies.
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One of my all time favourite action leads. Fucking badass
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A few female leads in action films before Hunger Games.
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YA/Teen movies/Major Franchises. Hunger Games was the first. Either way, shes right, so not sure how yall took this as a slight to other standalone action movies.
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I'd also add that it's a YA/teen movie, and off the top of my head I can't really think of an action movie before Hunger Games with a teen girl as the protagonist. I think that *may* have been where she was coming from on this.
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I agree, especially when at the time the only movies people could probably name we’re all from 20 years prior. Supporting her point even more imo
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