August 5, 20232 yr What a birthday gift ‘Barbie’ to Cross $1 Billion Today, on Greta Gerwig’s Birthday
August 6, 20232 yr Margot Robbie – The Puppy Interview (2023) https://k2s.cc/file/9c8a3e5df7a66/MrRgPuIn.mp4 139.63 MB / 08:23 / 1920 x 1080 / mp4
August 6, 20232 yr credit: Lucy Yeomans sorry if repost behind the scenes of Porter Magazine issue 30 2018
August 7, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, fashionmistake1234 said: credit: Lucy Yeomans sorry if repost behind the scenes of Porter Magazine issue 30 2018 Very nice throwback, thanks 👍🏻
August 7, 20232 yr 'Barbie' is the only billion-dollar blockbuster solely directed by a woman Barbie will surpass $1 billion worldwide, according to Warner Bros. estimates. Hard as it may be to believe, that makes director Greta Gerwig the only woman in the billion-dollar club with sole credit for directing a film. A couple of other women have shared credit for directing movies that made more than a billion dollars. Both Frozen and Frozen II were co-directed by a man and a woman, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck. And Anna Boden co-directed Captain Marvel with Ryan Fleck. Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, is among the top 60 highest grossing films, not adjusted for inflation, but it has not broken the billion dollar barrier. Most of the movies in the billion dollar club are, predictably, male-oriented and franchise-driven. At this moment, 53 films have made more than a billion dollars. Barbie is among only nine that center female protagonists. Nine, that is, if you count female fish. Finding Dory (2016) swims in the billion dollar club, along with the animated princesses of Frozen (2013), Frozen II (2019) and Beauty and the Beast (2017). Two mega-franchises managed to spit out a billion-dollar film with women at the story's heart: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Captain Marvel (2019). Then, two other billion dollar one-offs: Titanic (1997) and a live-action Alice in Wonderland (2010). In short, plots centering women and girls currently make up 18% of all billion-dollar movies. Nearly half of them are animated films made for children. Blockbusters with strong girl characters are great. But the dearth of super successful movies about grown women illustrates Hollywood's infamous sluggishness when it comes to gender parity. "[This] is a reflection of what Hollywood has chosen to back with its biggest budgets, its largest marketing spends, and who it has ... given the opportunity to direct and write and star in these movies," The Hollywood Reporter's senior film editor, Rebecca Keegan, pointed out on a recent episode of the podcast The Town. "So it's a little hard to say that that's responding to market forces versus that is a reflection of the culture that's driven Hollywood for decades." The Town's host, Matthew Belloni, pointed out that on Barbie's opening weekend, women made up 69% of ticket buyers domestically. "And then it actually rose to 71% female in the second weekend, which is unusual," he said. Anecdotally, it seems numerous women return to the movie, bringing relatives and friends. And Barbie's crossover appeal to men cannot be denied. Stacey L. Smith of the University of Southern California has long studied inclusion in popular culture. Her most recent report, from February, shows that female representation in television and film has steadily improved. Her study looks at the top 1,600 movies in a given year. In 2007, the percentage of female protagonists was only 20%. In 2022, that number had risen to 44%. Not perfect. But far, far better than the numbers for the world's most successful films that enjoy the most studio support. You'd hope that with Barbie, the number of women nominated for Oscars for best director might improve. It's a sad little number. Only seven. And those numbers might not even improve in 2024. Barbie director Greta Gerwig has already been nominated for an Oscar, for her 2017 movie Ladybird. Source
August 14, 20232 yr On 8/13/2023 at 12:42 PM, AnatasiaSteele82 said: Reveal hidden contents In the film, I miss true love story between Barbie & Ken Why is always everyone assuming the heroine needs a hero to be fully filled?
August 14, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Jade Bahr said: Why is always everyone assuming the heroine needs a hero to be fully filled? I never assumed a heroine needs a hero. Perhaps there are many examples that I never noticed but Zero Dark Thirty and Hidden Figures come to mind.
August 14, 20232 yr ^It's just something my mom said while we were watching "13 going 30" I will never ever forget. The movie is about to end and 30 years old Jen Garner is sitting on the stairs, crying her eyes out because she didn't get "the man" and then went back to 13 making everything different to make sure she's ending up with "the man". A so called HAPPY ENDING. My mom: So she can't be happy without him, she has to be with him to be happy. Why is this the message of every fuckin girls movie? Also my mom while watching Titanic: Oh so she can live without him! 12 years old sobbing me: But with him would be so much nicer. My mom: You will understand when you're older. Me today: My mom was right.
August 14, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said: ^It's just something my mom said while we were watching "13 going 30" I will never ever forget. The movie is about to end and 30 years old Jen Garner is sitting on the stairs, crying her eyes out because she didn't get "the man" and then went back to 13 making everything different to make sure she's ending up with "the man". A so called HAPPY ENDING. My mom: So she can't be happy without him, she has to be with him to be happy. Why is this the message of every fuckin girls movie? Also my mom while watching Titanic: Oh so she can live without him! 12 years old sobbing me: But with him would be so much nicer. My mom: You will understand when you're older. Me today: My mom was right. I absolutely agree 💯 I also believe that a woman will never be truly happy with a man if she cannot be happy without him.
August 14, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Lilja K said: I also believe that a woman will never be truly happy with a man if she cannot be happy without him.
August 14, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, AnatasiaSteele82 said: No, I only say I love love stories. Me too but that's not the Intention or message of the movie at all. If you're looking for a conventional love story you just watched the wrong movie, girl 😄
August 15, 20232 yr 8 hours ago, Jade Bahr said: Me today: My mom was right. I agree and I doubt Margot Robbie needs a man to "be fulfilled". Plus I was reacting to the statement "everyone assuming". My mother's other's role model was Eleanor Roosevelt. I've studied and am reading a book now about her and learned she didn't need Franklin to achieve greatness but it helped a little to be married to a president.
August 15, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, Clarence said: but it helped a little to be married to a president. Haha no doubts about that. It's nothing wrong with having a powerful man on/at your side 😄
August 15, 20232 yr On 8/2/2023 at 2:21 AM, Grievous said: And following a YouTuber with a video that's called "Why Modern Movies Suck - The Strong Female Character" tells me everything I need to know. He sounds like an open-minded kind of guy. 🙄 You didn't even watch the video He says that creating heroines that don't have to undergo hardship to fulfil their journey belittles them and make them unrelatable/unrealistic. The problem of the "Mary Sue" trope is that it tells its audience they don't have to do anything to become good (which is wrong - reality will always remind you that). I'm sure you can get past the title of a video, general Grievous, right?
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