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Post by petrolino on Apr 26, 2020 1:25:47 GMT
Do you think there's any truth to this statement, or would you dismiss it as nonsense?
'Films about men, need those men to have a mission. The man needs to be doing something, which can then make for a gripping movie. Films about women, can be great, just by being about the woman, or about interactions between women.
Many of the most distinguished filmmakers who were male, regularly made films with female protagonists, but why not men?
I recall one leading director saying, when asked, quite simply, that he found women to be more interesting.
Thanks.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Apr 26, 2020 10:54:44 GMT
is HUD about a man on a mission..... or just about an interesting man? Interesting quote though...not sure if second part is true..... suspect those fascinating women probably do have a mission... but maybe one that isn't valued or easily acknowledged by men ........ Eve Harrington certainly had a mission.... Wasn't MRS MINIVER's mission to make the home front as inspirational as she could? One could hardly call Han Suyin from LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING an unmotivated or directionless woman..... MILDRED PIERCE was no slacker in the ambition department... Jean Brodie had a very clear mission to put old heads on the young shoulders of the creme de la creme in her charge at the Marcia Blaine Academy Exhibit A for the prosecution: Does this look like a woman without a mission?  |
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Post by marshamae on Apr 26, 2020 13:11:25 GMT
And then you have a film like BoomTown - 2 male leads one female lead. One male is all about the mission, finding and selling petroleum, the woman is all about her feeling, the third man ,Spencer Tracy does both, sharing the mission with gable , and unrequited love for Gable’s wife, while his friendship and competition with Gable forms a third arc. Surprisingly the movie isn’t messy at all though it is quite long
I think the statement is too simple . And that is a good thing. It’s good to think that classics cannot be deconstructed into such a simple paradigm.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 26, 2020 15:49:48 GMT
Ace in the Hole (1951)  Billy Wilder brilliance! 
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Post by petrolino on Apr 27, 2020 0:14:33 GMT
Visconti's Death in Venice and a Conversation Piece as well as Farewell My Concubine by Kaige Chen are good examples of films about men just being men and interacting with each other. On the other hand, I can't remember any of Kurosawa's films having female protagonists. I haven't seen all of his films, though. That's awesome, thanks. I like 'Conversation Piece' and 'Farewell My Concubine' a great deal. The latter I thought of as an exploration of gender when I first saw it as a naive and impressionable teenager working in theatres.
I'm reminded of some of the things Federico Fellini said, about obsessive men pursuing elusive women. I think many of my favourite European filmmakers felt the same way.
“Freedom, especially a woman’s freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn’t granted. It must be taken.”
— Federico Fellini
Bunuel ...
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