Fury Road: when there are enough women
When there are enough women in your cast, not every woman has to represent all women and they can have individual flaws and strengths.
When there are enough women, some can fall apart and others can hold things together.
When there are enough women, you can literally name a character Cheedo The Fragile without making a statement about feminine fragility.
When there are enough women, you know the action movie doesn’t have to preserve the one woman in order to ensure you have one woman left in your cast at the end, so women might die, just like men, and the stakes are high and real and the plot is not predictable.
When there are enough women, you can cast women with different ages and looks and body types based on what makes sense for the story – beautiful women who were selected for beauty by a character who valued women’s bodies more than their whole selves, wiry muscular women of middle and older age, built to survive, mothers who were used for the things that come with their fertility and have the fat to show for it, old fragile women who took care of others while rarely stepping outside, disabled women affected by their environment and experiences.
When there are enough women, the world feels real.
The thing I love about John is that like…he’s so much more dangerous than Sherlock but everyone else was trying to warn him away like “that guy gets off on crime and you seem like a nice bloke, watch yourself.” They’re all scared for him like “one day we’ll be standing around a body and sherlock will be the one who put it there” and that very night they’re all standing around the cabbie’s body and John put it there.
i hope one day there is a halloween party where daniel radcliffe goes as frodo baggins and elijah wood goes as harry potter
imagine the havoc
imagine the photos
Only if Ian Mckellen goes as Dumbledore and Michael Gambon goes as Gandalf.
I’m suddenly intrigued and I don’t know why
Friends, Followers, and…Others, I have a request: tell me about Mystrade.
Just…tell me about it.
Good, bad, neutral, deep thoughts, silly thoughts. Anything.
Just word vomit at me about it.
Much obliged.
I wrote a hefty word vomit about Mystrade here.
But also
can I just
leave this here
for inspiration
and a reminder
who we’re dealing with, here?
OH YES INDEED
Peggy Carter being so done with inaccurate WWII films (Pearl Harbor, 2001)
- Several of the nurses in the film have hair longer than would have been allowed. Military women weren’t permitted to wear their hair longer than just above their collar.
- The Willys Jeep M38 shown in this scene wasn’t produced until 1950.
- The Eagle Squadron badge shown on his right arm in this scene was only used for the No. 303 Polish Fighting Squadron, never was it used for any squadron in England for which this soldier was fighting in.
- This woman is wearing a modern style bikini, something that didn’t appear until 1946 when Louis Reard and Jacques Heim introduced it in Paris.
- Danny exclaims “I think World War II just hit us!” when in fact it wasn’t called “World War II” until 1948. World War I was still being referred to as “The Great War” at the time.
- The Japanese Zeros depicted here are painted dark green, but during 1941 they were painted light grey. They weren’t painted green until 1943.
Notes:
-Original Prompt: Historically Innacurate World War II Movies
-The Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941
-Happy CarterCentury week!I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS THANK YOU