Two Awesome Quotes
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jhameiaQuote from Patrick Stewart in 2004, for an international campaign against violance against women:
"The entertainment industry has been extremely irresponsible in perpetuating and stereotyping the violent attitudes of men to women," said Stewart, best known for his portrayal of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek.
"I condemn utterly films like Kill Bill. We are told it is about empowering women. All it does is empower a woman to kill other women."
Rosario Dawson on her discomfort at her Grindhouse character's complicity in a rape:
Dawson says, "I talked to Quentin about it several times, because I had a huge problem with leaving her there: 'I don't leave that girl behind, I love that girl, we're friends.' "Quentin says, 'No,' (and) I say, 'Can I throw her the keys to the car?' and he says, 'No, you can't, that's not how it's going to work.' I was like, 'Damn!'" Co-star ROSE McGOWAN also tasted Tarantino's controlling nature: "I couldn't change the word 'the'."
I like stylized violence, which is why I own the Hellsing TV series and Trigun, but I remember seeing bits of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill and not being able to enjoy the senseless violence due to the other stuff I saw, just couldn't put my finger on why. So nice to know I'm not the only one ick-ed out.
"The entertainment industry has been extremely irresponsible in perpetuating and stereotyping the violent attitudes of men to women," said Stewart, best known for his portrayal of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek.
"I condemn utterly films like Kill Bill. We are told it is about empowering women. All it does is empower a woman to kill other women."
Rosario Dawson on her discomfort at her Grindhouse character's complicity in a rape:
Dawson says, "I talked to Quentin about it several times, because I had a huge problem with leaving her there: 'I don't leave that girl behind, I love that girl, we're friends.' "Quentin says, 'No,' (and) I say, 'Can I throw her the keys to the car?' and he says, 'No, you can't, that's not how it's going to work.' I was like, 'Damn!'" Co-star ROSE McGOWAN also tasted Tarantino's controlling nature: "I couldn't change the word 'the'."
I like stylized violence, which is why I own the Hellsing TV series and Trigun, but I remember seeing bits of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill and not being able to enjoy the senseless violence due to the other stuff I saw, just couldn't put my finger on why. So nice to know I'm not the only one ick-ed out.
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Date: 2009-04-06 06:03 pm (UTC)The catty girlfriend decks her boy with her purse. The anime girl punches the male protagonist off the screen. Kill Bill's protagonist (saw the movie, but forgot her name) slaughters up a storm.
But where's the intelligence? Where's the depth and personality? "Empowering" women only to be violent only alienates them further and perpetuates the idea of women being scary when in control.
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Date: 2009-04-06 09:19 pm (UTC)You'll love this blog: Girls Read Comics... and They're Pissed! (http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/)
The post I was talking about refers to the creation of Lady Bullseye (http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/?p=223).
Kill Bill's protagonist doesn't even HAVE a name. Just a moniker: The Bride. How simplistic is that eh?