It took no time at all for a comment to pop up on my Google+ posting of a link to my post here “attention, Hollywood: the wild success of Gravity means audiences have no trouble identifying with a female protagonist” scolding me for my ignorance about women in movies. Cuz what would I know? Tim McDonald schools me:
There are plenty of popular movies out there already that have female protagonists.
Not that he named one.
But I figured I would test his hypothesis.
So I took a look at Box Office Mojo and counted how many films will have gotten a wide release in North America by the end of 2013. (This is a way to measure what sorts of movies Hollywood makes, because they make up the vast majority of those wide releases.) The figure is: 141.
Then I counted how many films have women in leading roles. And here...
There are plenty of popular movies out there already that have female protagonists.
Not that he named one.
But I figured I would test his hypothesis.
So I took a look at Box Office Mojo and counted how many films will have gotten a wide release in North America by the end of 2013. (This is a way to measure what sorts of movies Hollywood makes, because they make up the vast majority of those wide releases.) The figure is: 141.
Then I counted how many films have women in leading roles. And here...
- 11/8/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
You don’t have to be a woman to be a prison wife. Take Capt. Tim McDonald, a retired Northwest Airlines pilot and amateur handwriting analyst. He met and married Teresa Deion Harris, aka #233590, a convicted killer sentenced to life without the possibility of parole — after she was already in the joint. Captain McDonald, one of the many “wives” profiled on Investigation Discovery’s bizarre new show “Prison Wives,” doesn’t find anything odd about meeting your future spouse after he or she has been incarcerated for things like murder, rape, and infanticide. When Capt.
- 2/21/2010
- by BY LINDA STASI
- NYPost.com
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