Calling all feminists

[andrewducker]

You may want to boycott Warners.

Comments

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I shall spit in their general direction when I'm in LA next.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Jesus wept, oy gevalt..

It has to be said that there are NO very chrismatic bankable female leads right now. Not because female stars are intrinsically uninteresting but because the industry is only interested in nurturing blonde anorexic bland characterless male fantasies these days - since the coming of apathetically popular Nicole and Gwynnie, it's been the even more homogenous Portman, Johannsen, Knightley etc. Kirsten Dunst off the top of my head is the only real A grade fem star right now with a bit of guts. (Maybe Jolie once - but she's having em strained out of her.) Once we had Pfeiffer, Streep and Fonda and in the old days of course, the likes of both Hepburns..

of course there is Garofolo, Morton, Blanchett but they are not A level stars.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I think Julia Roberts can still open a movie, but otherwise you're probably spot on.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I shall think evil thoughts at them. And call my apathy about going to the cinema a "boycott". There! That will show them I'm not to be messed with.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Why not just boycott Hollywood and its cult of celebrity entirely? These things only have meaning insofar as we bother about them; it's been this way for the past 90 something years ever since the star, in the form of the first "Biograph Girl" came to matter. It's not natural, or inevitable, just an arbitrary, contingent construction.

[andrewducker]

Why not just boycott Hollywood and its cult of celebrity entirely?

Because I love many of the films they make. I'm going to see Ratatouille at the cinema on Wednesday because I adore the director (Brad Bird) and will go to see anything he makes - that it's made by a studio doesn't matter one way or another to me.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

There's a good example of a film without a star in any case - the animation / effects are probably the equivalent of the star attraction for many people, while for you its also the director.

[guybles.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat baffled by the article, which refers to "Robinov's poorly performing Superman Returns", despite the Wikipedia account of the film grossing a little under $400m on a budget of slightly more than $200m.

If true, then it's a great example of how Hollywood stopped making great films and, instead, just looked to make a fast buck with no eye on the future of the industry. Otherwise, it's just random gossip twitterings from yet another blog (and Hollywood has still stopped making great films, yadda yadda).

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know if the story was actually true yet? It seems like a foolish thing to say, even if they actually think it.

[andrewducker]

Can't find either confirmation or denial on the internets...