[pre-gifs] “…So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t and it became the best selling sex tape for two years on the porn market.”
Dr. Gail Dines addressing porn culture and rape culture’s intersecting roles in patriarchy
tumblr @staff really out here flagging feminist filmmaker věra chytilová as inappropriate content
2018 and Věra Chytilová’s films still considered subversive.
Comparison between the Simpsons and major movies.
What a legendary show
All of these are great, but can I add my own?
The Single Battlefield test requires that:
- A female character is demonstrably better than a male character
- at some directly important and comparable skill (i.e. in a shonen anime/manga she clearly defeats the guy in combat without excuses being made or an unfair matchup)
- and stays better than him for the entirety of the show
Because I’m just sick of seeing combat anime with female characters that are supposedly super strong but only ever win against the single female member of the enemy team and get worfed against major (male) villains, or female characters who have supposedly trained for absurdly long periods of time and even defeat the male main character at first but after about a month he’s much strong than her and she’s useless.
Oh, and before a sqaud of idiots starts screaming at me?
This test does not require that a female character is better than every male character. It just demands that she is not worse than every male character of plot relevance.
Cinematography by: Dan Laustsen
The Shape of Water (2017)*
Directed by Guillermo del Toro“The way I’m shooting movies, it’s 1:1. What you’re shooting on the set is exactly how it’s going to look in the movie. When we did the color-correction, the DI, for this movie, Guillermo said, “I don’t want to make a DI, because I think I like exactly how it looks.” We spent some time on the set to do the right colors, and I think that’s very, very important for me, to shoot the movie exactly as it should look. So when we’re doing the DI, I’m just making a corner a little bit darker or a window a little bit brighter, but we’re not changing the color. So when you see framegrabs from the sets the day we shot it and you see the final movie, it’s exactly the same; we’re not changing colors at all.” — Dan Laustsen on the gap between what’s captured in-camera and the final image
*Academy Award nominee for Best Cinematography in 2018
Harry Potter as a teen comedy.
Evidence that music placement is very important.
I swear I watch this every time it comes on my dash.
“The film features two characters played by the singer herself – the suit-wearing powerhouse Janelle Monáe and the free-spirited, slightly risqué Janelle Monáe who sashays into a club with Tessa Thompson; she sensuously accepts a lollipop from Thompson while locking eyes with a handsome guy. It may not need explaining, says Monáe, but gossip rags have wondered loudly whether these 33 seconds (and a seemingly affectionate red-carpet appearance) could mean that Monáe and Thompson are dating, or that Monáe is “finally” out of the closet.
Rumours have long been whispered about her sexuality, but Monáe has thus far resisted publicly defining it; she characterises herself again as “sexually liberated” and she declines to frame Make Me Feel in literal terms. “It’s a celebratory song,” she says. “I hope that comes across. That people feel more free, no matter where they are in their lives, that they feel celebrated. Because I’m about women’s empowerment. I’m about agency. I’m about being in control of your narrative and your body. That was personal for me to even talk about: to let people know you don’t own or control me and you will not use my image to defame or denounce other women.”