Super-Lonely!
Check out the cover of this week's USA Weekend, that ubiquitous magazine that accompanies 23 million Sunday papers across the country. Liv Tyler, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Maggie Gyllenhaal are "The Girls of Summer" who promise to "turn up the heat" in "3 upcoming blockbusters". Except these "leading ladies" aren't actually leading much. They're the only women in comic book series turned movies, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and Batman's The Dark Knight. Paltrow is Ironman's "trusted assistant", Gyllenhaal is a "lawyer friend" of Bruce Wayne's, and Tyler is The Hulk's love interest. And the first question posed to the three in their collective interview pretty much says it all: "Was it lonely being the only woman in a comic book movies?" Lonely indeed, for way too many talented women actors these days. If you're interested in where the women are and feminist issues related to women and Hollywood, check out Melissa Silverstein's blog:
just ordered your book and CAN NOT WAIT to receive it.
My Toddler Tornado is only two---but as a mom who is fascinated (some might say obsessed. tomato. tomaaaato.) with popculture and the negative ways it impacts our girls and young women I intend to guide her into adulthood with my eyes wide open.
Carla
http://www.MizFitOnline.com
Posted by:MizFit | April 30, 2008 at 02:36 PM
just ordered your book and CAN NOT WAIT to receive it.
My Toddler Tornado is only two---but as a mom who is fascinated (some might say obsessed. tomato. tomaaaato.) with popculture and the negative ways it impacts our girls and young women I intend to guide her into adulthood with my eyes wide open.
Carla
http://www.MizFitOnline.com
Posted by:MizFit | April 30, 2008 at 02:36 PM
not related to movies, but totally related to superheroes and kids: look to The Runaways (graphic novel series) by Brian Vaughn! (if you want to be reassured) [stereotypes persist in some ways--but there's so much more. smart girls!--girls getting along with boys getting along with girls to fight evil, TOGETHER! etc. ...dinosaurish pet!...evil parents!...superpowers!]
when these are made into movies?--we'll have something awesome to talk about with the LT, GP, MG equivalents on the cover...
Posted by:rebecca | May 07, 2008 at 06:56 PM