Post by Spiderdancer on Dec 15, 2005 15:49:30 GMT -5
And now it's time for:
CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST FILM STUDIES
FEATURING SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT PLAN TO GO ON AND ON ABOUT PHALLIC SYMBOLS IN ACTION FILMS
Heh heh.
You know, I liked the movie a lot, but I hadn't thought of it as a woman-empowering (ick, okay, bad phrase) film before. It really is, though.
Like Lissa, I love that the filmmakers gave the chickens all personalities, both male and female. No one is reduced to their personality trait being "I'm the girl!" or (easier in this case, given the numerical disparity) "I'm the guy!" (Maybe there was a touch of "I'm the American!" but frankly I found that funny, so I was willing to forgive it.)
This movie is a good example of the type of feminism that people like me espouse: let's start with all of us being human beings - or chickens, what the heck - and go from there. You don't tell me that all women secretly want to be dominated, and I won't tell you that all men secretly want to be rapists.
I'd like to see more films with characters that can be described in terms of their personalities: tough, or bright, or haunted - rather than their gender or even their social roles.
The problem, of course, is that such films tend to be horrible downers...
CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST FILM STUDIES
FEATURING SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT PLAN TO GO ON AND ON ABOUT PHALLIC SYMBOLS IN ACTION FILMS
Heh heh.
You know, I liked the movie a lot, but I hadn't thought of it as a woman-empowering (ick, okay, bad phrase) film before. It really is, though.
Like Lissa, I love that the filmmakers gave the chickens all personalities, both male and female. No one is reduced to their personality trait being "I'm the girl!" or (easier in this case, given the numerical disparity) "I'm the guy!" (Maybe there was a touch of "I'm the American!" but frankly I found that funny, so I was willing to forgive it.)
This movie is a good example of the type of feminism that people like me espouse: let's start with all of us being human beings - or chickens, what the heck - and go from there. You don't tell me that all women secretly want to be dominated, and I won't tell you that all men secretly want to be rapists.
I'd like to see more films with characters that can be described in terms of their personalities: tough, or bright, or haunted - rather than their gender or even their social roles.
The problem, of course, is that such films tend to be horrible downers...