Jurassic World was like an HD remake, I came for t-rex action but I actually got more of a kick out of just seeing the whole thing reimagined with modern capabilities.
Acarr said:
Watched Jurassic World today. I watched it in the cinema but I felt meh towards it the first time around cause the high-heels thing annoyed me more than it should have.
Myeh, I wasn't a fan of Claire and Owen to be honest, it was this sort of weird "can woman be in action scene?? can woman prove capable of man things??" theme mixed with a romance thing that felt shoehorned in even though there wasn't any need for it.
Like a problem a lot of female characters face now is that with the increased attention on female representation you keep getting these "strong independent woman" characters that spend most of their time just highlighting that that's their personality, with a ton of "normally a male would do this, but now I do it!!" and "you think women can't do this?? i can!" I get the intention, but by doing that you're actually just reinforcing the idea of gender roles.
It's completely not true that women need to "prove themselves" to be equal to male characters - it's just a matter of how you write them. Everyone liked Maleficent and it was because the character was just fucking cool and there was no shit about it, and when you present it like that, no one even stops to go "but wait, she's female!", you just go with it's flow which is ultimately the real goal of these characters: To make strong female leads not something unusual, but something common that we don't even really think about. By making your audience feel like your female lead is some strange, usual thing, you're kinda just reducing them to a plot twist or gimmicky element.
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