{"id":57,"date":"2015-09-25T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/25\/42movies-day-15-strong-female-characters\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T21:07:00","slug":"42movies-day-15-strong-female-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/25\/42movies-day-15-strong-female-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"#42Movies, Day 15: Strong Female Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2015\/09\/42movies-day-14-violence-begets-violence.html\">Speaking of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/Joss-whedon-on-strong-women-characters-annotated\">Joss Whedon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QoEZQfTaaEA\">video<\/a>)&#8230; this list could be much, much longer:<\/p>\n<p><b>Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)<\/b><br \/>and<br \/><b>The Peacemaker (1997)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but it still wouldn&#8217;t be long enough. Let&#8217;s talk after the trailers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUXQ4oNux_A?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CUXQ4oNux_A\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/CUXQ4oNux_A<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QG8O3Cr9kEs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QG8O3Cr9kEs\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/QG8O3Cr9kEs<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, parody news site <i>The Onion<\/i> ran an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/screen-actors-guild-develops-retraining-program-30-51376\">&#8220;Screen Actors Guild Develops Retraining Program For 30-Year-Old Actresses Aging Out Of Workforce.&#8221;<\/a> It&#8217;s a spot-on satire, and it&#8217;s as painful as it is funny.<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s true: Hollywood today has very little use for actresses over thirty. (Even less for non-white women who want to play lead roles, but that&#8217;s another topic.) Even as TV viewers flock to shows like <i>The Good Wife<\/i> and <i>Orange is the New Black<\/i> and anything from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shondarhimes\">Shonda Rhimes<\/a>, movie producers still <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/02\/women-in-hollywood-fewer-lead-roles-1201370101\/\">shy away from from female protagonists<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/26\/7874295\/gender-hollywood\">bogus reasons we need to banish for good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Politics aside, these are two highly entertaining films. <i>Long Kiss Goodnight<\/i> is one of our go-to holiday movies, even with the uncomfortable moments which probably weren&#8217;t as bad pre-9\/11. And <i>Peacemaker<\/i> not only has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hans-zimmer.com\/index.php?rub=disco&amp;id=95\">a classic Hans Zimmer score<\/a>&mdash;it&#8217;s one of my favorite soundtracks for writing&mdash;it also has fun with its Kidman-Clooney, brains-versus-brawn buddy pairing. Director Mimi Leder really doesn&#8217;t get enough credit for working humanity into her action pictures (<i>Deep Impact<\/i> is another of my sentimental favorites. <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2015\/09\/42movies-day-13-must-be-your-lucky-day.html\">ASTRONAUTS IN TROUBLE<\/a> MAN).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Joss Whedon (video)&#8230; this list could be much, much longer: Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)andThe Peacemaker (1997) &#8230;but it still wouldn&#8217;t be long enough. Let&#8217;s talk after the trailers. https:\/\/youtu.be\/CUXQ4oNux_A https:\/\/youtu.be\/QG8O3Cr9kEs Earlier this week, parody news site The Onion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[46,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-42movies21days","category-movies","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}