Am so pleased you loved Mad Max: Fury Road! I would love to hear your thoughts on how the female characters are portrayed compared with in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Also wonder if you have seen Anita Sarkeesian’s tweets proclaiming that Mad Max isn’t feminist, which I couldn’t disagree with more.
Monday, June 1st, 2015There were a few different parts to your ask,
anon, so this ended up turning into a loooooong reply.
The main appeal of Mad Max for me personally is that it’s an amazingly well made
action movie without any of the—pardon my French—unselfconscious dickwaving that makes the majority of
action movies alienating for me as a female viewer. In fact, the film very
clearly addresses how destructive toxic masculinity is. I wish I could say ‘big
whoop’, but unfortunately this level of self-conscious criticism in mainstream
films is incredibly rare, especially in the action genre. So just off the top
of my head, here’s some of the things I feel Mad Max does differently from Age
of Ultron (and the majority of other action movies out there) with respect
to women and gender. (Mild spoilers under the cut.)
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