In my previous articles, I talked about "Black and White Witch Cruella" and "Raya and The Last Dragon". These two are the main heroine works of the movies released this year that I think are very interesting. "Raya and The Last Dragon" is an animation. I won't talk about it here. "Cruella" has mixed reviews on the Internet, and "Black Widow" is basically a bad review. As the first generation The ending work of the Avengers Black Widow, I am also very dissatisfied with it. There are almost no bursts of tears and laughs, and there are many action scenes, but they are not refreshing, and the characters are also flat. The newly introduced sister Yelena did not give people To leave a deep impression is to tell stories for the sake of telling stories. Everything is far-fetched and perfunctory. After reading it, there is a feeling of "finally finished".
What kind of female characters do we need? An interesting phenomenon is that many people have expressed a lot of dissatisfaction with the female characters in commercial blockbusters, and it stands to reason that the female characters in commercial blockbusters are carefully polished and should have characteristics that many audiences love. Why? Are you feeling more and more indifferent to these female characters? Where does our liking for a character come from, and why is he attractive to us? Some people say that people's aesthetics are influenced by the fairy tales they read when they were young, and everyone likes the protagonist of the fairy tale. For example, girls like Snow White, boys like Ultraman, etc., so there are a series of stereotypes about roles of different genders. The consequence is that everyone thinks that female roles should be auxiliary, gentle and virtuous. Whether she is Snow White or Cinderella. Here I would like to specifically mention "The Daughter of the Sea". Andersen wrote a lot of stories that I especially liked, but this was a work that made me feel particularly embarrassed to read when I was young. The little mermaid fell in love with the human prince and saved his life. In order to go ashore to meet his sweetheart, the little mermaid turned to the witch (the various witch characters in fairy tales are very worth writing a long analysis, they are much more interesting and powerful than the princesses) There are too many, there are many creative points for writing fanfiction), the price the witch made her pay is the tongue that can sing the most beautiful song, I suddenly understood the metaphor of "tongue", which symbolizes what women lose when they blindly pursue love The right to speak, from now on, she is just a little slave girl with a pair of beautiful sad eyes! The mermaid gained her legs and endured the great pain of stepping on the tip of a knife with every step she took (no doubt a symbol of girdle and foot binding, the pain that human women must endure every day), and then she sacrificed everything for love, and such Sacrifice is meaningless. The prince, who is in love with him, doesn't know what happened from beginning to end. He even married a beautiful princess from a neighboring country. In the end, all his wishes came to nothing and he voluntarily died. Love). Of course, the little mermaid, as a representative of a female fairy tale character who is extremely moved by herself (this role is also very realistic, in today's society, such women are not uncommon), has been criticized by everyone a long time ago. Now, everyone can go and read "male-oriented" stories, especially various hot-blooded comics, and see how the plot is designed to create a brave, courageous, and sacrificial hero in male-oriented stories. I believe Everyone will make amazing discoveries. I saw a UP master at station B before that the models of Batman and Catwoman in the Batman game were exchanged, and a comparison video was placed next to it. You can clearly see that in terms of female character design, whether it is sexy clothing, Also
As far as I know, a large number of women will read works from a male perspective, especially classical literature. There is no doubt, because almost all the classics handed down are written by men. After all, how many years do women know how to read? When did you start creating? Even many contemporary women are proud of looking at works written from a male perspective, and have created a large number of fan works with only beautiful male characters, because those family and country feelings do seem to be more advanced than apron stoves, and it seems that after reading these works, they themselves also become more advanced. What about men? Do men read and take pride in women's perspectives? Do men create fanfiction with female characters of all sorts of good and noble personalities?
In addition to the accumulation of time and the improvement of the audience level to create female characters with rich personalities, I also heard a very interesting point of view, that the characters appearing in fairy tales will affect the thinking of children, so it is not possible to create characters with a dark side. A good person or a bad person who pretends to be a person can make children choose to be good without hesitation, because the bad person is stupid, looks ugly, and does all the bad things. This is an interesting point of view, it first shows that there are fixed standards for what is "good" and "bad" in our behavior, and secondly, our personalities are shaped and easily influenced by fairy tale characters, it's that easy, think Let the child become what kind of person, just let TA read more fairy tales like that. Therefore, the authors have encountered a big problem in creating strong female characters. A character must be multi-layered to make the audience feel strong and charming. However, considering the discipline of children of different genders, She must be strong, but not too strong, and must have advantages. At the same time, she must have the characteristics of women's "sentimental side", "sexy and soft", etc. These characteristics cannot be escaped even in the West, which has experienced several feminist movements. Therefore, it is the safest way to directly renovate the old characters. Cinderella's stepmother, Snow White's stepmother, Kuira, Maleficent, these classic villains in fairy tales, and tell them about their unavoidable difficulties, because the children have long been there. The familiar stories know that they are villains who have done everything wrong, so they can show their cruel and ruthless side unscrupulously, and because they are villains, they are extremely powerful, and it just fits the current aesthetic for Meiqiang and miserable characters. It's very convenient.
As a digression, I watched an interview with Alice Munro (Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature), and even in the face of such a big boss, the male reporter's tone was arrogant, repeatedly asking what?" Are you a feminist?" "How do you balance work and family life?" "Do you think you have influenced female authors?" "Is there any difference in women's perspectives?" There are too many male reporters, and these questions are easily answered in the chat and laughter. "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Naples Tales" are works that only women can create come out. Real women can sometimes surprise men, "How can women be like this? Why are you different from the comics? Why are you different from the TV?" The female characters who fit the stereotype are very strange. Yes, because no woman is like that. As a representative of sexy female agents, "Black Widow" is indeed a master of male gaze. I don't have high requirements for this work, and I don't think they will create a different Black Widow. But I thought they would at least put some effort into the script and make it into a 007-like, thrilling spy war movie. If the box office is good, they will make a trilogy, each with a different male lead and fall in love, Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, and Captain America. Wouldn't it be nice to sit in a row?
Natasha died without even a decent funeral, and her friends were all eager to start a new life.
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