When did it happen? We used to have Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly - women who lit up the screen, who radiated character, depth, charisma. And then, like an insidious bait and switch, we ended up Meg Ryan, Calista Flockhart, and, ugh, Sarah Michelle Geller - stammering, stuttering, whiny little twits who simply could not do anything right. How did it happen? How did we go from this . . .
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"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up." |
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"I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?'" Why indeed . . . |
Is it women? (I mean, these are called "chick flicks" for a reason.) Do women actually enjoy watching other women embarrass themselves ad nauseam? Wouldn't they rather watch a beautiful, talented, smart heroine kick the crap out of some evil dude? Or would that simply make women feel inferior? Yeah. That must be it. The reason women like all these stupid females is that women really ARE dumb.
OK. Maybe that's not a good argument. Perhaps, the reason so many "women's films" feature self-involved, clumsy women is that MEN prefer women who are spineless and incompetent. Right! That must be it! The reason we are being tortured with decades of blonde bimbos is that MEN are dumb.
No, that can't be it. Men can't be dumb. Men invented the femme fatale, Wonder Woman, Octopussy. So what reason can there possibly be for this infestation of gormless females?
The only answer that I can come up with that makes the slightest bit of sense for why we traded Greta Garbo for a return to this . . .
is that it's a Conspiracy. They're in it together . . .
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Shhhhh . . . |