Your point about there being few Hollywood movies with interesting women is spot-on (I want to use that particular phrasing because unfortunately Hollywood does produce a number of 'women-oriented' movies, but most of those are incipid romcoms where women are neurotic, useless basketcases only needing to marry and of no intrinsic interest whatsoever).
It also made me realize why I think I ended up going off the deep end so for dramas. While I wouldn't call a vast majority of them feminist (most of them have fairly traditional 'love conquers all' message, not that there is anything wrong with that), they are woman-oriented and their heroines are as present and as interesting as the men, whether it's a historical epic (the current Kingdom of the Winds has a plethora of strong and interesting women characters) or even a fluffy romcom (I wouldn't consider the heroine of ISWAK a feminist model or even particularly bright, but there is no doubt ISWAK is her story, told through 'her' lens, unlike a lot of American movies which purport to be telling a woman's story but in reality barely bother creating a character at all).
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Date: 2008-11-04 08:42 pm (UTC)It also made me realize why I think I ended up going off the deep end so for dramas. While I wouldn't call a vast majority of them feminist (most of them have fairly traditional 'love conquers all' message, not that there is anything wrong with that), they are woman-oriented and their heroines are as present and as interesting as the men, whether it's a historical epic (the current Kingdom of the Winds has a plethora of strong and interesting women characters) or even a fluffy romcom (I wouldn't consider the heroine of ISWAK a feminist model or even particularly bright, but there is no doubt ISWAK is her story, told through 'her' lens, unlike a lot of American movies which purport to be telling a woman's story but in reality barely bother creating a character at all).