tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post567070267240435349..comments2023-10-07T22:37:49.244+13:00Comments on The Hand Mirror: well done, kathryn bigelowkatyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-8455405230029672342010-03-11T09:13:54.745+13:002010-03-11T09:13:54.745+13:00Shame that the producers of the Oscar show decided...Shame that the producers of the Oscar show decided to present Bigelow's best director Oscar with a shitload of condescending head-patting.<br /><br />As one person put put it, "I Am Woman? If Cameron had won, would be have left the stage to the strains of 'It's a Man's Man's Man's World', or do we just take that as read?"<br /><br />And a massive sexist-fail to the media for the lazy, condescending "battle of the exes" lede. Kudos to Bigelow and Cameron for not playing up to a media-constructed narrative, but they shouldn't have been in that position in the first place.<br /><br /><i>The honest truth is that women’s experiences and lives don’t rate at the same level with men’s, and Bigelow is just another reminder of that fact.</i><br /><br />oh, wow... I don't know if I even want to start deconstructing the "not a real feminist..." bingo in play at that link. But when women film-makers, writers and executives already face so much sexism in the industry (and not just in Hollywood), I'm struggling to see anything feminist in another slap-down of an uppity woman who refuses to follow the script. <br /><br />Women like Bigelow, Gale Ann Hurd and Jane Espenson who work outside the "chick-flick" paradigm really get enough shit from fanboy patriarchs who feel emasculated by the estrogen getting all over their nice clean genres. Do they really the same old crap in a new box?Craig Ranapiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08923246310584658857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-31787388378382491182010-03-11T09:04:54.857+13:002010-03-11T09:04:54.857+13:00This comment has been removed by the author.Craig Ranapiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08923246310584658857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-22001361600925597532010-03-11T08:24:23.632+13:002010-03-11T08:24:23.632+13:00One of the biggest gender-bias problems in Hollywo...One of the biggest gender-bias problems in Hollywood is the extreme predominance of male screenwriters. The ratio can be as high as 85:15. <br /><br />The vast majority of Hollywood films feature a male protagonist -- this is so usual that we scarcely even notice it. How many recent films can you name that have a female protagonist? If we always see a story from a man's point of view, how does that affect our society?Grace Dalleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11184423873725462269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-88337335562591814862010-03-10T16:31:02.690+13:002010-03-10T16:31:02.690+13:00(Pssst @Hugh, quite a few people would like you to...(Pssst @Hugh, quite a few people would like you to come back to <a href="http://thehandmirror.blogspot.com/2010/03/dont-ask.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> and explain your disagree :-) )Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08977150346842277994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-41810641285233682452010-03-10T16:02:38.741+13:002010-03-10T16:02:38.741+13:00Thanks for this anjum, in particular for not going...Thanks for this anjum, in particular for not going down the path that so many others seem to be; namely focusing on who Bigelow used to be married to as opposed to what she's achieved.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08977150346842277994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-59356094907327788912010-03-10T13:38:42.788+13:002010-03-10T13:38:42.788+13:00I have to disagree with this interpretation of The...I have to disagree with this interpretation of The Hurt Locker. It's a pro-war film. Not an all-war-is-great-always film, and certainly not a the-Iraq-war-is-great film, but definitely a film that sees war as having positive aspects.<br /><br />That being said, it is a very good pro-war film, and certainly deserved to defeat Avatar, which was arguably an anti-war film but was very, very bad regardless.DPF:TLDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06372937855256319716noreply@blogger.com