If It Wasn't For That One Thing: How Movies Could've Been Better

[tearknee]

 

[proserpina65]

9 hours ago, tearknee said:

Promoting the false notion of a 'default' mother-daughter bond is not feminist and it is dangerous (as Jeanette McCurdy, Cheryl and Christie Downs, Riley Ann Sawyers and so many other tragic-horrible examples self-provably demonstrate.

I don't think Brave promoted it as a 'default' mother-daughter bond, nor do I believe the original poster did either.  But yes, actually featuring such a bond in a Disney movie, rather than their typical missing mother backstory, is at least somewhat feminist in nature, imo.

[tearknee]

3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I don't think Brave promoted it as a 'default' mother-daughter bond, nor do I believe the original poster did either.  But yes, actually featuring such a bond in a Disney movie, rather than their typical missing mother backstory, is at least somewhat feminist in nature, imo.

My apologies. I'm affected by my own mom's behavior. I think that promoting it -- rather than reinforcing that mothers can also be abusive and even murderous towards a daughter --is ultimately not good.

[proserpina65]

On 12/13/2024 at 5:11 PM, tearknee said:

My apologies. I'm affected by my own mom's behavior. I think that promoting it -- rather than reinforcing that mothers can also be abusive and even murderous towards a daughter --is ultimately not good.

Mothers and daughters can have all sorts of bonds and relationships, and I don't think it should be emphasized that any particular sort, good or bad or in-between, is always the case.  I think we can definitely agree on that.

[methodwriter85]

I love Michelle Yeoh, but they needed to have either cast someone who can actually sing for Wicked, or they needed to dub her.  Supposedly her character has more complicated songs and I don't see how that's going to work when she could barely talk sing.

[Spartan Girl]

4 hours ago, methodwriter85 said:

I love Michelle Yeoh, but they needed to have either cast someone who can actually sing for Wicked, or they needed to dub her.  Supposedly her character has more complicated songs and I don't see how that's going to work when she could barely talk sing.

Morrible really isn’t much of a singing part on the stage show either. She’s got a bit part and a couple of songs.

[Fool to cry]

Myrna Loy's great but if anyone should have played Shirley Temple's older sister in The Bachelor and The Bobbysoxer it should have been Susan Hayward!