@nicolemtaylor28 what do you think about lady snowblood, where the lead is a lady version of Liam neeson? She has agency, but is pretty 1d
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@paulboccaccio I haven’t seen Lady Snowblood (nor Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, either, actually) and I guess I don’t object in general terms
@paulboccaccio women get raped. It happens a lot. And it makes people angry. And the revenge plot is a basic staple of storytelling.
@paulboccaccio there’s absolutely a place for movies that combine those two things. However, seeing it all in a stark list of alleged
@paulboccaccio movies featuring “strong female characters” and it’s just one heroin-addicted stripper after “brutal rape” it creates an
@paulboccaccio oogy feeling. Like women are transformed into their Liam Neeson form by sexual violence. Like strength is derived from
@paulboccaccio suffering, rather than being an innate characteristic. I know bleak indie movies are bleak, but I’d guess I’d like to see
@paulboccaccio some variation in the misery. Or, in the case of Lady Snowblood, some variation in the anger. The classic martial arts
@paulboccaccio vengeance thing is “you killed/insulted my master” right? (I could be totally wrong, my understanding of martial arts
@paulboccaccio movies begins and ends with really liking The Raid and wondering what Tony Jaa’s thing with elephants is about). Men get
@paulboccaccio revenge on people harm or take away their families, women get revenge on people who rape them (tho, wiki indicates that
@paulboccaccio Snowblood is actually avenging a family member, so.) but it’s a question to think about. Lois Lane is what makes Superman
@paulboccaccio vulnerable, more so than kryptonite. Men are badass killing machines, their families are their weak points. Women are open
@paulboccaccio to attack until violence hardens and purifies them into a killing machine that can no longer be harmed.
@paulboccaccio holy crap. That was so many tweets. That was too many tweets.
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