Grimstone wrote:52xMax wrote:Instead of learning their lesson, it seems like Hollywood loves to double down, and in addition to the current gender-bending reboots such as Ocean's 8, it's been announced that a new adaptation of William Goulding's Lord of the Flies is in the making, featuring a "female lead" cast.
More movies with female leads? This is terrible news!
William Golding...you know? the novel's author wrote:Girls say to me, very reasonably, ‘why isn’t it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?’ Well, my reply is I was once a little boy — I have been a brother, a father, I am going to be a grandfather. I have never been a sister, or a mother, or a grandmother. That’s one answer. Another answer is of course to say that if you, as it were, scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. Don’t ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say because I’m going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality — this is nothing to do with equality at all. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can’t do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilization, of society. The other thing is "why aren’t they little boys AND little girls?" Well, if they’d been little boys and little girls, we being who we are, sex would have raised its lovely head, and I didn’t want this to be about sex. Sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil and the problem of how people are to live together in a society, not just as lovers or man and wife.
I boldened the relevant parts for your convenience. I wouldn't go so far as saying that women are superior to men (or vice-versa, I believe we are complementary in many different ways), but I think the point was made.
This supports my actual stance, the one you chose to ignore in pursue of a strawman.
I'm just wondering if any of the people involved in this project saw the 1990 movie or read the novel, because I think everyone is missing the moral of the story...but whatever. I guess people will vote with their feet on this one too, like they did with 2016's Ghostbusters.
This much is clear even after only watching the Simpsons parody, which actually featured boys and girls.
Another thing is that doing the same thing men did decades ago, except to a lesser degree of success, yeah, I just don't think that's the best way to send the message that women are strong, independent, or whatever it is they are trying to say. Especially when the people at the helm of the project happen to be two dudes.
Why are you doing gender-flip remakes at all? Wonder Woman did really well, and so did films like Lucy and Atomic Blonde, which are original takes on silly genre staples with female leads. And then there are major franchises such as the Hunger Games, Divergent, Twilight, and (to a lesser degree) even Pitch Perfect, which might not be quite as 'feminist' as some would like, but remain clear examples that movies lead by women can perform at the box office on their own without having to be at the shadow of being affirmative action heroes.
Maybe I'm wrong, and this lady of the butterflies or whatever actually turns out to be good, but based on previous experiences and all the information that has been released about the project, i wouldn't keep my hopes up.