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Three cheers for this movie…. Arranged is amazing. Two friends, one an Orthodox Jew and the other Muslim, navigate the processes of arranged marriage and cope with racists and the ins and outs of tradition. It’s done with sweetness and complexity and humor. Perfect quote: “No, we’re actually forbidden to think about men… unless they ride in on horseback and sweep us off our feet and steal us from our father-dominated homes…”
[Official Website]
Has anyone seen this?
See, this is the shit I want to see at my local movie theater!!!! gdi Hollywood.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ehj1Z8Za1qchhhqo1_500.jpg)
Three cheers for this movie…. Arranged is amazing. Two friends, one an Orthodox Jew and the other Muslim, navigate the processes of arranged marriage and cope with racists and the ins and outs of tradition. It’s done with sweetness and complexity and humor. Perfect quote: “No, we’re actually forbidden to think about men… unless they ride in on horseback and sweep us off our feet and steal us from our father-dominated homes…”
Has anyone seen this?
See, this is the shit I want to see at my local movie theater!!!! gdi Hollywood.
Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.
You know, I always did like Scarlett Johannson.
Rookie, The Season of the Witch
For readings on the correlation in horror between puberty and the monstrous, see:
- Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (specifically, the chapter called “Woman As Possessed Monster”)
- Aviva Briefel’s “Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in Horror Film”
- “‘The Hair That Wasn’t There Before’: Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed”
- Bianca Nielson’s “Something’s Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female”: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps”
- Shelley Stamp Lindsey’s “Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty”
I will add Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws here, although she’s concerned more with identification, monstrous-feminine as men’s horror, and the maternal aspects of possession tales (including a section on possession as oral penetration). Although both Creed and Clover are important feminist horror theorists who work in Psychoanalytical lenses, Barbara Creed talks more about transformation than Carol Clover does. And transformation is key to horror movies about how women are terrifying.
For variations on a theme, watch Ginger Snaps, Carrie, and Teeth together.
(Bonus: here is Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection for free online)
Ha, I’m pretty sure at some point in my post-puberty life, my parents want to call an exorcist. I’m also pretty sure I’m not joking about this, either.
(via feministfilm)
by Captain Awkward for Feministe:
“I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling… So for the past few years I’ve done a small experiment with them. It works like this: I bring in my giant file of head shots, which include actors of all races, sizes, shapes, ages, and experience levels. Each student picks a head shot from the stack and gets a few minutes to sit with the person’s face and then make up a little story about them…
However, some troubling shit always occurs…”
100% worth the read if you have ever had any interest in movies, actors, how we subconsciously stereotype others, etc.
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For white women, they mostly do not come up with a job (even though it was specifically asked for), and they will identify her by her relationships. “She would play the mom/wife/love interest/best friend.” I’ve heard “She would play the slut” or “She would play the hot girl.” A lot more than once.”
This article is basically everything I can’t articulate about diversity in film & tv casting. (Well, casting in general.) PLEASE READ.
