For Robert W. Barry and Joshua Kore. Remember how we were discussing Sword Art Online? Strong Female Characters *do* something that moves the actual plot forward. Not they kick but in a single scene, look cool, or have a gun, they actually have to do something significant other than pep talk the hero, help out in a single scene, or be a victim. Katniss is a main character, Black Widow in Captain America 2 might be a strong female character. (If you remove her from the film, would something significantly change? Hostages would have been rescued from boat, Rogers would think about women, Rogers would have gotten the flash drive back...but the information from the first ship would not have been recovered and Rogers would have been caught on the escalator without her, and he probably wouldnt have been tech-savvy enough to find some of the locations on his own, and if she werent in some of the battles, hed probably have been killed or captured-so yes, Black Widow in Captain America 2 is one). Wildstyle in the Lego movie isnt important, and I didnt see women in Sword Art Online do a great deal more than fawn over the main character, show up as a macguffin (lucky we had ____ to help us get through this rough patch and will never need again-think the equivalent of a MacGuyver tool) and get captured and subjected to tentacles. Ill have to go back over it I suppose but honestly, although an interesting premise, I dont recall a female character I really wanted to get a figurine or sticker of. What did she do that could not have been done by a talking sword or a blinking arrow?
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:14:40 +0000
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