Subject: Why strong female characters today are not SFCÂ’s
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Posted on: 2019-08-31 15:10:00 UTC
...hear me out here.
Ellen Ripley, as played by Signourey Weaver, is a strong female character. She’s a character from a film that originally came out in the late 70’s; who manages tobe far stronger that half the supposed ‘Strong feminine icons that keep being thrown out of the room full of monkeys that is Hollywood. Ripley is a tough-as-nails XO, who embodies the concept of a female badass. She’s also maternal in her behaviour, as shown with Newt, as well as the whole ‘going back for the cat’ bit.
Sarah Connor, as played by Linda Hamilton in Terminator II: Judgement Day, is a Strong Female character. She’s a single mother who fights killer robots from the far future of 2014. Nuff said.
Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, as played by Katee Sackhoff, is a strong female character. She smokes cigars. She flies starfighters. She gambles. She drinks. She’s also a deeply feminine character, and not just a badass without rhyme or reason.
Michael Burnham, as played by Sonnequa Martin Green, is NOT a strong female character. Sure, she’s a black female lead. That’s where everything good comes to a dead stop. She’s good at snything she does; is always right as justified by the plot of the story; can frack up (but not recieve any lasting consequences or proportional retribution). All this, and she’s more wooden than Kirk, with the personality of soggy cardboard.
Unfortunately, the last example holds true for so many of today’s “female characters”. Those 2016 Ghostbusters were all badly done comedy, and no charm or chemistry. It wasn’t the actresses’ fault: they were given a bad script, written by supposed proffessional writers.
That’s all.
