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I think that's the sensitivity. It's why female villains in movies are often killed by another female character (spoils for various films)
Rosamund Pike in Die Another Day, Lea Seydoux in Mission Impossible 4, etc. Or they're killed off by the villain - like in You Only Live Twice, or they kill themselves (Grace Jones in View to a Kill, Maria Grazia Cucinotta in the opening sequence of The World Is Not Enough, etc
its a well known trope - Superman never hits Ursa in Superman 2, in Scott Pilgrim Scott won't hit a girl but Brandon Routh's character is shown to be an **** because he does, etc.
And it always depends on how it's handled. Like the fight between Bruce Willis and Maggie Q in Die Hard 4 is clearly "justified" in hero vs villain terms - he's John McClane and she's a terrorist - but that scene and the one after it still manages to be kinda sexist and racist
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Wmag: JCHAS " One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film... I’m waiting for that call!" Call her! Oct 12, 10:13
she would be almost as intimidating as Adam Driver {nm} Oct 12, 10:21
More so than MAMAL. Enough with the eurotrash villains. {nm} Oct 12, 10:29
Idris Elba {nm} Oct 12, 10:30
He should be up for 007. {nm} Oct 12, 10:32
You think it would be sensible to have him start a series of films as Bond, in 4/5 years time, at pushing 50? [nm] Oct 12, 11:07
I think Roger More was 58 when he did his last Bond film.. {nm} Oct 12, 13:14
And he probably should've bowed out a couple films earlier IMO. {nm} Oct 12, 13:32
But I didn't look a day older than 55! {nm} Oct 12, 13:34
Watch it, buddy... {nm} Oct 12, 10:37
The idea that a woman cannot be in a fight has an underlying level of misogyny. Oct 12, 12:24
The MPAA treats violence against women differently than against men among other things {nm} Oct 12, 12:36
I agree, but the idea of watching a man beat up a woman for our entertainment also has an underlying element of misogyny. Oct 12, 14:07
I think that's the sensitivity. It's why female villains in movies are often killed by another female character (spoils for various films) Oct 12, 16:46
Kingsman and Dredd are two films that come to mind with female villains that get into fights with the hero {nm} Oct 12, 13:38
But were also R-rated. {nm} Oct 12, 13:45
True. {nm} Oct 12, 14:01
X-Men: Mystique vs Wolverine X-Men 2: Lady Deathstrike vs Wolverine Oct 12, 16:28
I was gonna say Xenia Onatopp, but Bond never actually struck her. {nm} Oct 12, 13:52
Actually he did - spoils Oct 12, 14:11
Ha, it was off-screen. Oct 12, 14:29
can't he just shoot her ( no slapping ) and apologize ? {nm} Oct 12, 13:55
He did in The World is Not Enough. {nm} Oct 12, 13:57
hmm...I think that was the only time there was a female Bond villain {nm} Oct 12, 15:45
A main one Oct 12, 17:20
