no longer doing movies with women in the lead

[naanima]

Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead". Apparently, female leads bomb a movie at the Box Office. Of course we can't blame the male writers, producers and directors who can't write convincing, interesting women to save their lives.

Fuck you Mr. Robinov.

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Oh man, that debate can go on forever. I love how guys are totally creeped out by gay p0rn, but they'll happily watch lesbian p0rn. I tried pointing this out to a guy once, and his reply was that lesbian p0rn is hot, but not gay p0rn. Erm, okay. So same-sex p0rn of your own gender is gross, but not the opposite gender? Whatever. Women seem to be more accommodating, though - lesbian p0rn and gay p0rn, it's all good.

Don't quote me on the Hiro thing. It is widely known that Hiro was added at the advice of his wife because she thought it was too angsty. She might have suggested Hiro's ethnicity to her husband, but if she did there certainly have been no mentions of it. I'm just glad they came up with the character of Hiro in the final product because without him, I wouldn't have been hooked long enough for the Petrelli brothers to get their hands on me.

I personally don't mind discussions on gender and ethnic equality, because I think these issues are more relevant than ever with the globalisation of our world. But I also dislike it when people see this issue EVERYWHERE. Some freak on a 'Heroes' community complained that the writers only killed black characters. She was roundly shot down when a dedicated fan came back to her with the kill statistics for S1 of the show, proving to her that they killed more white characters than characters of any other ethnicity in the whole of S1. Some people just see things they want to see, ya know?

I reserve judgement on both guys and girls who sleep around unless I have all sides of the story. As far as I am concerned, a guy can be a slut too, just as a girl can be a... well, whatever is the female equivalent of 'stud'. On the other hand, society at large still considers guy=stud, girl=slut if they both sleep around. I thought we are past the age of enforced celibacy already, but evidently we're not.

I won't say the females in 'Heroes' are underdeveloped or unoriginal. We do have a single mother (who strips online to make the bills, point, but still...), the awkward high school cheerleader, the ditzy but nurturing mother, the misunderstood female FBI agent, the originally unattractive but suddenly glamourous shapeshifter/illusionist, the matriarch who wants to give her son the world on a silver platter, etc. Since 'Heroes' is runs on continuous story arcs, these females do get a chance to become more fleshed-out than the SPN ones. So I must give props to the SPN writers for creating memorable female characters, even if they are Chicks-of-the-Week. Or it could be due to the weekly self-enclosed episode structure of SPN that made me focus more on the women (whom often turn out to play relevant roles, turn evil, etc) even when I know they will only appear once, thus making me take greater notice of them. There's no real way to tell for me. Anyway, to be fair to 'Heroes', they do have a reasonably strong/diverse female cast. It's just that I'd rather focus on the man meat, you know?