Linguistic cartwheels in the stylings of a rant, these are the thoughts that keep me up at night.
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I am a 20 year old female writer residing in Central New Jersey. My influences include the great Dave Barry, Neil Gaiman, George Carlin, and the two greatest editors in the world, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. My webpage can be found at www.homestead.com/foxfyresden and I can be reached at Foxfyre33@aol.com. Happy reading!
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004
There are many different types of classic Hollywood films - comedies, romances, actions, dramas and suspenses among them. In most, if not all of these different types of films the actors are usually cast to follow a gender-specific set of guidelines. However, as with life, and society, guidelines very seldom remain unchanged.
Movies are and always will be a form of entertainment for the masses - a fun way to 'escape' life by following the fictional adventures of other people. In times of uncertainty - be it through war or social movements, sometimes movies can't help but reflect the changing values and ideas of a country, and also sometimes can't help influencing them one way or the other.
Increasingly, the news has been filled with the latest updates, no matter how small, in the struggle to legalize gay marriage, a topic so controversial that the president himself is risking alienating voters by speaking out against it. The reason our society has recoiled at the thought of two men or women living as a couple is that it isn't 'right', that the two don't follow the gender 'rules' our society has come to expect of its people, and that marriage means only man and woman. Looking to the movies and television, we see talk shows hosted by known lesbians Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O' Donnell, hit movies like "Chasing Amy" and "If These Walls Could Talk" and the advertising community reaching out to the gay and lesbian demographic more than ever. Even syndicated T.V. not only breaking gender roles, but, through programming, arguing who can do it better - "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" battling it out with "Straight Plan for the Gay Man" The tough guide lines that most if not all of these classic Hollywood films followed are those of how men and women should act and carry themselves. Men are suppose to be that fearless protector, the rugged knight in shining armor. Females, on the other hand, are shown as the total opposite; they are to be delicate, soft creatures that are supposed to let men take care of them.
11:55 AM
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