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Hollywood is notoriously bad at writing interesting female main characters
They knocked it out of the park with Ripley in the first two "Alien" movies.
It's a shame they can't seem to do that again.
@woodsmoke Titanic does this thing which Hollywood does a lot; Making the losing male love interest into an unlikeable character, a "bad man", someone the audience will have a hard time empathising with. This serves to relieve the female protagonist of any real moral dilemma, thus relieving her of responsibility ("he was a piece of shit anyways").
The reason they do this is because that sort of scripting is appealing to women. Yes, it makes for an uninteresting, crap movie, but it's fascinating in the sense that it mirrors the sort of after-the-fact scripting a woman will tend to write in her own head, with regards to ex-husbands and such. One can say a lot about Hollywood, but they do know how to appeal to normies.
One of the reasons I genuinely enjoyed The Worst Person In The World (2021) - which is also sort of romance movie from the female perspective - is that it didn't do just that. All the male love interests in that movie are good, charming, likeable guys in their own ways. This leaves the female protagonist with some actual hard decisions to make, decisions that are going to hurt people the audience cares about, knocking the halo off of the female main's head.
Hollywood is notoriously bad at writing interesting female main characters, because Hollywood doesn't allow for actual negative, unlikeable traits, or real guilt, in a female character.
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@Typo-MAGAshiv When you first experience, it is kind of shocking what many normal women are into. Simulated rape seems to have wide appeal.
Fuck it, the borked formatting stays. Too much of a pain in the ass to do it all again on my phone.
I've [expressed before] (https://trp.red/t/1dzz) how much I fucking hate that movie but you're not wrong.
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@Lone_Ranger doesn't matter.
We already found out you were in the same venue.
You are forever tainted.
@First-light it might be a while, depending on work
I have a head full of posts I'd love to get written out, but I rarely get more than a few minutes here and there
I don't feel comfortable doing a nearly all that stuff and I am not doing it for any woman.
I've lost count of how many times I've told this story, but one of my exes actually got mad at me because I refused to choke her during sex.
Back when I still used Facebook, she'd hit me up via DM occasionally. She did this despite my having told her that I don't wish to remain in contact, and despite my being married with my profile pic being me and my wife together, and despite her being married and her profile pic being of her with her husband and kids.
I feel really bad for her husband, and wonder if he has any idea what a giant slut she is.
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