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Post by ThatGuy on Aug 26, 2017 20:19:09 GMT
Ripley is pretty much a unisex character. Besides moments with Hicks, and Alien 3 being all about her being female, the character could have been a man. Same goes for Sarah in T2. The thing that Cameron did with those characters in the sequels was basically have a male character and added a little bit of vulnerability. I think Cameron comes from a place where the man has to do most of the heavy lifting until the woman is backed into a wall and alone. Ripley and Sarah Connor sacrificed their femininity to become strong characters. They basically turned them into men. Same can be said of Furiousa. Wonder Woman on the other hand tried to show a strong woman who was still very much feminine. Neither approach is wrong or better than the other. They're just different. That's what I mean by a unisex character with a bit of vulnerability. It's getting a female character to the point of making her a man without making her a lesbian. In T2, he turned Sarah into a female Kyle Reese. We were okay with that because John is her son and with the male lead being a robot, ain't no time to explore her sex life. Can't do that the other way around because we wouldn't accept it with a suspected gay male "Sarah." That's where Genesys went wrong. They tried to merge T1 Sarah with T2 Sarah, T2 Sarah with Kyle, Kyle with T1 Sarah, and Kyle with T2 John. I think that's why they had Kyle and Sarah bickering over who will save the day throughout the movie. Because Kyle would have become that male Sarah. |
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