These are pictures of parts of the first several pages of a report called "The Ms. Factor: The Power of Female Driven Content." According to the title page, it was published in 2015 by The Producers Guild of America Women's Impact Network and Women and Hollywood."
The pictures of noncontiguous parts of the report are separated by dark lines and by what I wrote about them.
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The people who wrote the report thought that Cate Blanchett, speaking about a film written and directed by a child rapist, was an approriate person to quote?
Why doesn't Woody Allen ever have trouble getting financing, getting people to act in his movies, and getting people to work for him?
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This is a stubborn prejudice that causes a lot of problems; the idea that women are very different from men. Women tend to be treated differently than men, both by men and by women, and that is why we have "different life experiences," but that quote and, so far, the entire report, say nothing about how women are treated differently.
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She has to die.
She has to kill people.
She has to be a child who is sickeningly degraded, sexually and in every other way.
Is that what the report is saying a female character has to do to be the lead or a lead of a financially sucessful movie?
I haven't seen "The Fault in Our Stars."
I have read "The Hunger Games" books and seen the first and last Hunger Games movies.
I haven't seen most of "The Exorcist." I know some of what happens in the movie.
The Hunger Games books are not only about a female protagonist; they are also about the merger of totalitarianism, consumerism and the media and entertainment industry. The first Hunger Games book describes that merger in every chapter; the movie doesn't. Although the last Hunger Games movie illustrates the media manipulation of Catniss's image by a leader who is ultimately shown to be corrupt, that leader is a female leader whom Catniss kills.
The themes of the Hunger Games books, of political systems that use fear to retain control over populations, of people being forced to turn against each other for their own survival, of people who seek power for their own gain rather than for the good of others, of the bankrupt morality of a world where cruelty, violence and death are staged, filmed and advertised as entertainment; from the Hunger Games movies that I saw, those themes were not as pronounced as the elaborately choreographed "action." From "action guy" to "action girl" is not asking much of the audience; neither is the ending to the film series, in which the female protagonist has seemingly traded all of her former mobility for sitting outside with her husband and children. All or nothing, once again; from war to passive peace. The end of the last movie could be interpreted as a message from Hollywood that the only reason that women ever raise their voices about anything is so that they can have some quiet time.
I haven't read the entire report; maybe it talks about something other than money later.
This is the address for it:
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 28, 2016 @ 10:26 a.m.
