I think part of the problem is that Hellblazer first rolled out in 1993. After its roll-out, a lot of the themes were incorporated into Supernatural and Buffy. So while Constantine was based on the original material, it lacked the benefit of novelty. This ground felt well-tread.
It certainly didn't help that while…
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Ding. Its not about marketing to the target. Its about marketing to who the target THINKS THEY ARE. In their heads, many of those geezers think they are thirty-somethings, and continue to try and stay with the trends. Which means if you can influence, young people, the older ones follow along.
There are still some heroes, but it seems less and less. Civil War drove me nuts. It was such a naked sales tactic. Heroes who have been fighting side by side for YEARS suddenly decide to start fighting each other because some want to register and some don't. Setting aside whether it makes any sense to give the…
They made a movie-thing of Postal. It was decent. The Hogfather adaptation was better. if there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster in the heavens, She will wave her noodly appendages at Disney or Dreamworks and one of them will option Tiffany Aching, and hand it off to really, really smart writers to turn into a…
He has a few broad character threads he goes back to, which rather lampoon different genres.
The City Watch lampoons the police procedural and big cities.
The Witches… I'm not sure, but they are the provincial opposite to the City Watch's big city. They start out as a parody of Macbeth, I believe. Then he has the…
I consider 'worse off' being subject to murder, firing, or shunning for being what you are. Women were in a (albeit complicated) 'protected state'. Gays didn't enjoy these protections, and blacks were basically fair game for abuse for any inbred moron who came along.
And no, my argument has been the same "Presumably…
No, I think that people of color and gays were even worse off than women when the show was set. The FIRST EVER prosecution of lynching a black man ended with a 1,000$ fine and a whopping ONE YEAR jail sentence in 1946. A gay man would have been considered a security risk and summarily either fired or court…
LOL. "It sucks that this 50's spy drama is so light on women. And blacks." The mod squad isn't until the late 60's. Presumably the writers wanted to remind the kids exactly how bad it used to be for women, because so few of them ever saw "Iron-Jawed Angels". Or any of the 50's, 60's, or 70's Rom-coms where men…
I don't even like Jezebel and I can see this logic. Referring to somebody by a trait strips them of identity. Now they aren't a person, they're a category. The Muslim. The negro. The male.
I'm genuinely mystified that there was anybody who really liked Godzilla. Sure, it had the tension building of JPark. But Godzilla was a tease. It cut away during the epic fight scenes to focus on a character I don't think anybody gave a rats ass about re-enacting the same "Searching for my beloved in the…
Whaaaaaat!? We have some obscure character from season seventeen of TNG, but no mention of Leon The Professional's code: "No Women, No Children."
Is there a similar oeuvre for short guys? Just curious.
TV just has better characters. Full stop. Ever since the shift away from episodic stories to serialized stories, writers have been able to tell stories that are eight or fifteen hours long, or longer if they have multiple seasons to work with.
Thats why I said for the 99% who are the movie watching public. The top 1% skew male, but thats because men chase money more than men. For the other 99%, there's this: http://www.tvweek.com/news/…
So now the conversation suddenly shifts, and its not "women aren't well represented" to, "Money should be set aside so women can make summer blockbusters" Most of the people directing and producing summer blockbusters and major films got started with some variant of Super-8. Robert Rodriguez. Spike Lee. George…
You might want to look at the numbers for movie eyeballs vs. TV eyeballs. I think more women watch TV and men (particularly teenage and 20-something men) go to movies more.http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/02… Money quote: " On average, it’s 65% to 70% female on network prime time"
1)Hollywood exists to make money.
2)There are enough women with money to make and buy films in whatever style they want.
3)When these films begin making bags of money, the rest of Hollywood will follow suit, because See #1.
If you want to see more movies with strong female leads, write them, produce them, go to the…
Well, if you guys vouch, I'll give it another shot.
One of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes is "Evil begins when you treat people as things". He meant putting them in categories so they were no longer considered 'real' people, but the pilot showed every sign of taking it one step further. The victims were not even developed enough to be people. They were, in a…