"I think that’s extremely important, but I think it’s important to create all types of female characters, across the spectrum. I always say that what makes me sad is that women don’t even get the opportunity to be mediocre in the way that guys do. It’s like, every week these bad movies come out at the box office—let’s let women direct some of them! I’m not saying that’s going to make them great, I’m saying we need to be allowed to make good movies, bad movies, mediocre movies. We need to be able to create authentic flawed characters and totally crappy one-dimensional characters. I think we should be allowed to do it all, bad and good, just like guys. I don’t like the idea that women need to get in there and prove that we’re great at it. Because you know what? We’re not all gonna be great at it. We just need to be doing it, and get paid for doing it."
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Diablo Cody in response to “
Do you think that creating complicated, flawed, authentic representations of women is what being a feminist in film is all about?” (via
hermione)
"To have [my story] taken away and given to someone else, and a man at that, was truly distressing on so many levels…Sometimes women express an idea and are shot down, only to have a man express essentially the same idea and have it broadly embraced."
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- Director Brenda Chapman, who was fired from Brave and replaced with a male director. Chapman was the first woman to direct a Pixar movie. (via racebending)
OMG. This explains a lot about Brave. I actually suspected there were two films: the film I loved (and saw with my daughter) that was a lovely story about the mother-daughter relationship, and the other film shoehorned into it that was just kind of dumb mindless Hollywood cliche.
Oh, Hollywood: You fail again.
(via kateelliottsff)
And that’s why she moved to LucasFilm
(via jhenne-bean)
hannahorvath:
Kristen Stewart Dropped from ‘Snow White’ Sequel Plans (Exclusive)
Okay, so Kristen Stewart cheats on her boyfriend, who she is not married to, not engaged to, has no real legal bond to, and her career suffers. This is not the first movie she has been rumored to be dropped from. (I think it might be the third) People have talked about how this might hurt Breaking Dawn. How people will harass her at premieres or public appearances. Pretty much, the cheating scandal has made her such a liability that it might be a really long time before producers are willing to cast her in anything.
Meanwhile, Chris Brown physically assaults his girlfriend. There are pictures of what he did to Rihanna. There is a detailed police report saying exactly what he did. And has his career suffered at all? His most recent albums have only gotten more and more popular, he won a Grammy, he was invited to perform at the Grammys, and he still has a huge fan base, mostly female, disturbingly enough.
Meanwhile, Charlie Sheen physically assaults his wife, again, with detailed police reports. He makes anti-Semetic remarks about his boss. He goes on a bender that is captured by every major news outlet. And it’s all a joke. He trademarks all the crazy shit he says and makes money off the merchandise. He not only gets a new TV show, but it is the highest rated show on FX.
A+ sexism there, Hollywood.
"I can say whatever I want. I can look however I want. But we are definitely put in boxes, I mean like, annoyingly so. […] Especially compared to guys, I know for a fact, because I’ve known so many actors, personally, and also I’m interested in it so I pay attention. Guys have more room for personality, you’re allowed to be yourself, you’re allowed to be different and people don’t really comment on it. But as a girl, the room is, you have much, much less room to be yourself. It’s just weird. Everybody has to be the same."
- Kristen Stewart’s response when asked about being a woman in 2010 and female empowerment (via
tomsturridges)
