A thread for discussing representation and diversity in all kinds of media. This covers creators and casting decisions as well as characters and in-universe discussions.
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This week, producer Ross Putnam started a Twitter account called "femscriptintros
", where he puts up examples of how women are introduced in the screenplays he's read. And nearly all of sound like terrible porn or are too concerned with emphasizing said lady is beautiful despite whatever traits she may have. Here's a Take Two podcast made today where he talks about it.
(Edited April 19 2024 to add mod pinned post)
Edited by Mrph1 on Apr 19th 2024 at 11:45:51 AM
But does she having nothing to do with Spider-Man in universe translate to her movie rights not being tied to him? I wish that is the case, else she is still stuck with Sony, but I suspect it is not, unfortunately. So I think she might be stuck to Sony regardless (the deal with Marvel only include Spider-Man movies, right? Everything else is still produced by Sony).
Edited by Heatth on Mar 22nd 2019 at 12:22:55 PM
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Doom was a product of the 90s so if we had a female it would be a contemporary to Lara Croft. But that would sacrifice the Marine face and you wouldn't to sacrifice this smile
◊ would you?
As for the movie, i guess it will be another case of Video Game Movies Suck and everyone will move on. It's just so happens that they used a female MC, so anti-wokeness crowd will definitely go after that aspect because they have to do something with their lives.
Uni cat
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Pretty sure the case with her is that Marvel can adapt Jessica Drew whenever they want but would need Sony’s approval for the name “Spider-Woman”, while Sony can make a film titled “Spider-Woman” but would need Marvel’s approval to adapt Jessica Drew.
Also, we met Rosa’s girlfriend on the latest Brooklyn 99, and she’s played by Cameron Esposito!
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Mar 22nd 2019 at 8:35:53 AM
... Marvel should absolutely release Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman movie
◊. Call her Arachne (her second codename).
And they better as hell use this costume.
Edited by Larkmarn on Mar 22nd 2019 at 11:41:13 AM
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It is a sweet ass costume.
So Barbara Streisand had a pretty horrible take on Michael Jackson's accusers.
It isn't that she doesn't believe them, she does. She just doesn't think that what happened to them was a big deal because "it didn't kill them".
Edited by windleopard on Mar 23rd 2019 at 12:18:15 PM
...can she please stay in her basement mall with her clone dogs forever now?
Julianne Moore was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me? because she wanted a fat suit and fake nose.
Edited by windleopard on Mar 23rd 2019 at 5:42:33 AM
Disasturbator
> ...can she please stay in her basement mall with her clone dogs forever now?
no thats cruel to her dogs
New theme music also a box
(I alread this three pages ago, but everyone missed it apparently)
…So, tricky question…
You have a main character who starts the story as just a mindless sphere that can imitate the form of any dead animal that touched it before dying. The sphere soon gains a human form, that of a young boy, and over the years develops a human mind and the ability to speak. He meets and connects with many characters, male and female, who die at one point. So he starts to "use" their bodies and abilities when the need arises − meaning he can take a male or female form at will. While his default form is the young boy of the beginning and his personality remains the same, his way of speaking and mannerisms seem to adapt when he has to keep a female form for a long time − as if he became female not just outside but also inside to an extent. Then it all reverts when he goes back to a male body.
Does that make the character… technically gender-fluid…?
(that's the main character of To Your Eternity by the way)
Well that's… dedication to the role, I guess? >.>
Edited by Lyendith on Mar 23rd 2019 at 5:29:49 PM
Google "big ears"
"Oh don't cry fam. You were horribly abused but at least they didn't kill you"
That honestly sounds like something out of a Black Comedy
Uni cat
Good thing they didn't use Moore.
Hiring a fit actor to play an overweight, or heavyset person, and making them wear prosthetics is a pet peeve of mine.
Sounds like you could take that as genderfluid, or something like it.
I'd say it depends on how the character self-identifies. I think gender presentation and performativity is distinct from self-identification, with self-identification being the most important aspect, but if the change in behavior is the result of a change in self-identification I'd say the character could be either properly genderfluid or agender but changing in performativity.
Stuff like this is quite the argument for celebrities to keep their opinions to themselves.
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Edited by windleopard on Mar 24th 2019 at 11:42:00 AM
It's a bit hard to tell… Imm doesn't really have a gender in the first place, he just happened to stumble upon a male body and lived most of his human life as a man (being perceived as such by the others). So there's a good deal of performance, conscious or not. But at some point − whem Imm is well over 100 years old − there's a guy who falls in love with one of Imm's female forms and wants to believe (as well as persuade Imm himself) that Imm is a woman, which leads to some brief questioning on Imm's part…
I don't quite get the difference between "agender" and "genderfluid", but I guess it all raises questions about the role of outside perception in the construction of gender identity. Or something.
Edited by Lyendith on Mar 24th 2019 at 12:27:39 PM
Transcender of Gender
Agender is someone, like me, who doesn't identify as any sort of gender. Not in the sense that their gender exists outside of the genders that are commonly known, but in the sense that they just don't feel like they have a gender.
Genderfluid is someone who can identify as multiple genders, either at once or switching between them as they feel comfortable.
they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob
Agender means they feel an absence of gender altogether. Genderfluid means they feel that they have a gender, but what it is changes with time. Sounds like your character comes closer to agender, with some genderfluid aspects.
She/her
That’s not a fantastic apology. Yikes.
Google "big ears"
Big Yikes
Uni cat
I find it funny (not in laughing way) that when it came to classic DOOM, they chose the fat white guy, made him muscular and the face of classic DOOM.
Imagine how it would've been if it was Lorelei Chen (the first character choice in DOOM Bible, the asian chick) or John Pietrovich (the black guy) or Thi Barret (the redheaded chick) were the main characters in classic DOOM... altho for Chen, she was supposed to be the muscle chick. I... have a thing for that. Eh.
Once again, I hope there's a Phobosguy skin in DOOM Eternal. in Quake 3, Phobos is essentially an orange armored black Doomguy. I'm a big fan :P
Or Crash, Doom's military instructor (also from Quake 3).
Edited by Dhiruxide on Mar 22nd 2019 at 4:16:19 PM