Archive for January, 2012
How is this a Chic Flick?
I went on a binge for stories since I’m short on stories and I decided to go after romantic comedies…
About 50% are about sanctioned cheating.
The movies with men in them have them being jerks and chasing women for basically sex. More than half is about how the man in less than two months slept with a number of women while separated from the mysterious female. (All I can think of is STDs)
And then the ones with the serious separation time that makes me want to bang my head against the desk and ask what are they thinking? Sorry, 3 years is three years too long. Spend more time on developing the relationship and less on montage scenes and separation montage scenes–please.
Then there are the films about women who dress up in heels and magically gets the man, whom they most likely did 1-4 with and then sleeps with a bunch of guys–and while I don’t sanction men doing that–I don’t sanction women either.
Women who seek love aren’t that stupid. We don’t sleep with 20 guys, in order to take back sexual power and then have to determine ourselves by men’s standards and then end up trying to reclaim our feminine power through things like clothes and make up (more men’s terms). Women can be women too without having to bend to how men define women. I want to see that in a romantic comedy. I want to see a woman being a woman, doing well at her job without being shown as a goodie two shoes or a bitch, but human trying to seek love without having to do the “OMG a make over.” I want to see women being women trying to keep a marriage together and rekindle that relationship. And I don’t like watching sanctioned cheating as if there is someone saying, “Hey cheat–it’s OK.” and when you ask the film why, it says something like, “It’s reclaiming the sexual power of women.” Can there be a romantic comedy without the rival? Without the Best Friend ever? Why can’t we women get films that actually empower women who are trying to seek love and a career–in true instance?
Is it sad the closest we got was When Harry Met Sally? Sally was flawed, not a bitch. But there was nothing really slimming her into a role of what is “female” v. what is “male” which just makes me gag more watching these films, which just feels like a long lecture to no where. Maybe I’m the only woman in history that dislikes shopping for clothes and doesn’t buy into the White Middle Class WASP definition of dating.
Maybe this list is the reason why I quit watching American Romantic comedy.
More professions are writer or in the industry… lazy writers.
