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Honestly? Because it's been a straight decade of superhero movies, trends have moved on, and they waited until the very end of the wave to make all the "diverse" ones. variety.com/2020/film/box-…
BRIDESMAIDS did super well because people hadn't seen a girl bro-comedy before (that was how we conceived of them in the Dark Ages) but BOOKSMART came ten years later and did low numbers. US and MIDSOMMAR were huge, but maybe in 2040, "smart" horror won't be news any more.
The pressure is always on female-led and PoC-led and queer projects to "prove" they deserve to be at the box office by making huge numbers. The spectacle of Lady Ghostbusters is always hanging over everything. But men make a ton of un-trendy, medium-performing movies & it's fine.
If Marvel made a BLACK WIDOW movie in 2013, when everyone was asking them to, it'd be gigantic, but now, after years of waiting and ScarJo tomfoolery, I highly doubt it will be. The solution is to greenlight girl stuff earlier and not make us wait until ten years after the boys.
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This is self-indulgent - feel free to blame it on a solid week of Twitter hounding the "I'm at capacity" lady - but I've been thinking about the gendered performance of emotion. I've been yelled at for feeling too much & yelled at for feeling too little, sometimes simultaneously.
It tends to be men who yell at me for having too many feelings, and it tends to be women who yell at me for having too few. But there's always an underlying anger that people can't just turn down your emotions or turn your focus away from your own feelings and onto theirs.
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For all the questions people have asked me about "The Exorcist," no-one has asked me about my most deeply held opinion, which is that Mercedes McCambridge gave the most hardcore performance of the entire horror genre - maybe of the century - and wasn't even listed in the credits.
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I have to actually write about this at some point, but the battle between “Daenerys going crazy was GRRM’s plan” and “Daenerys suddenly being too emotional to hold power is misogynistic” tends to ignore the possibility that GRRM’s plan is, itself, deeply misogynistic.
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