"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Aya the Vampire Slayer wrote:
>> Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wa:
>>> Do cgi movies hate female leads?
>> <snip>
>>> The closest one comes to a female lead major release cgi movie is THE
>>> INCREDIBLES, four years ago, and she was the co-lead, the wife of
lead,
>>> altho technically, it was male lead (the group is named after the male
>>> lead). For a flat out clearly female lead cgi major movie, you gotta
go
>>> back to 2001's FINAL FANTASY.
>>
>> Probably because fart-joke movies don't work as well with female leads.
>
> I think it's more because CGI movies, like all movies, try to
incor****ate
> a lot of action scenes. And there are few female action heroes in
> animation besides Wonder Woman. That's nothing new; in comic books, the
> preponderance of superheroes are mostly male.
Um, they create NEW characters all the time. How many of cgi movies are
adaptations of previous works?
> Remember, at least half of the audience for these movies is young boys.
> And young boys don't like domineering girls, which is why female
> superheroes have been relatively less popular.
Like Buffy, Xena, Wonder Woman, Lara Croft, Mrs. Peel?
>> Ratatouille is one of the few that didn't have any fart jokes. I
imagine
>> that Wall-E probably didn't either, although I don't know for sure
>> because I haven't seen it (yet?).
>>
>> Being female myself, I don't actually find myself caring that much that
>> most leads are male. Do black people care much that most hollywood
>> movies have white leads?
>
> Yep, they cared about that a whole lot.
>
> Also, Asians have long griped that there have been very few positive
role
> model leads for Asian characters on TV--just spies and villains. (How
many
> positive characters can you name besides Star Trek's Sulu and Lost's
> Jin/Sun?)
Off the top of my head:
Hiro ****amura and his best friend and his dad on HEROES.
Athena on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (at times).
One of the cops on THE CLOSER.
A recurring electronics forensics expert on LAW & ORDER: SVU.
Ming Na's character on ER.
Daniel Dae Kim's character on BABYLON 5: CRUSADE.
-- Ken from Chicago
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