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Aparently there is a shortage of female superheroes
So lets hear your Ideas for that Superhero Movie.
1. Make the film about both the Origin and Fall of our Heroine.
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I remember Carol Danvers being pretty damn hawt, but I'd prefer a Monica Rambeau movie, particularly if she was leading NEXTWAVE, Agents of H.A.T.E.
That shiznit was funny.
What Andrew said. No shortage of female superheros. Wonder Woman has been in development hell for years. (Joss Whedon was on the project for a while.)
So my suggestion is.
1. Make the film something that will make buckets of money.
Nothing else will be relevant to the producers.
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What Andrew said. No shortage of female superheros. Wonder Woman has been in development hell for years. (Joss Whedon was on the project for a while.)
So my suggestion is.
1. Make the film something that will make buckets of money.
Nothing else will be relevant to the producers.
Story?
Nemesis vs the MosqueIt is 1923. 'The Mosque' is a male only gathering of University intellectuals. The most brilliant male minds in the world. They have decided to create 'the superman'. They have selected a female student at the University to be the mother of the Superman. A woman who will be nothing more than a Womb to grow their 'god' in - a woman they do not consider their equal. By Staging an accident in a science lab she is rendered unconscious and they vaccinate her.
Our Heroine: Patricia Cortes, the top of her class and having just gained the coveted position of lab assistant, believes she will one day make it to a professorship.
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How about no more superhero movies at all?
Stop watching them. Get everyone you know to stop watching them. The easiest way to get Hollywood to stop doing something is to make it unprofitable.
That's also, oddly enough, the hardest way. Because it's the only way to get Hollywood to stop doing something.
I could agree with that, less superheroes, there's plenty of more mundane fodder that could be cool.
How about "100 Historical/fantasy female characters you'd like to see given a big budget feature".
Roll over Cleopatra.
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While we're at it, how about no more crappy summer blockbusters? No? Not going to happen?
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What does the word "blockbuster" mean to you?
What Andrew said. No shortage of female superheros. Wonder Woman has been in development hell for years. (Joss Whedon was on the project for a while.)
So my suggestion is.
1. Make the film something that will make buckets of money.
Nothing else will be relevant to the producers.
Story?
Nemesis vs the Mosque
It is 1923. 'The Mosque' is a male only gathering of University intellectuals. The most brilliant male minds in the world. They have decided to create 'the superman'. They have selected a female student at the University to be the mother of the Superman. A woman who will be nothing more than a Womb to grow their 'god' in - a woman they do not consider their equal. By Staging an accident in a science lab she is rendered unconscious and they vaccinate her.Our Heroine: Patricia Cortes, the top of her class and having just gained the coveted position of lab assistant, believes she will one day make it to a professorship.
If you want to make sure no one touches superhero movies with a female lead for at least five years, that synopsis may be a very good start.
Cliched and boring YD.
Let's see what boxes you have ticked.
Evil misogynistic men - tick
Oppressed woman - tick
Rape/forced pregnancy - tick
Followed up by a lot of revenge fantasy smack down.
Why does it have to be like that - why not have something other than a gender war origin story or do you think that is all that women are interested in and men relate to.
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What does the word "blockbuster" mean to you?
Crappy summer movies that have an awesome trailer and then, when you get to the theater, and the weed wears off, you realize the movie sucks.
What does it mean to you?
Why does it have to be like that - why not have something other than a gender war origin story or do you think that is all that women are interested in and men relate to.
Yay for good thinking!
What does the word "blockbuster" mean to you?Crappy summer movies that have an awesome trailer and then, when you get to the theater, and the weed wears off, you realize the movie sucks.
What does it mean to you?
"A movie that makes a lot of money." Which is why Hollywood will always make summer blockbusters.
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Well researched movie about Marie Curie, or Mary Shelley.
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Cliched and boring YD.
Let's see what boxes you have ticked.
Evil misogynistic men - tick
Oppressed woman - tick
Rape/forced pregnancy - tick
Followed up by a lot of revenge fantasy smack down.Why does it have to be like that - why not have something other than a gender war origin story or do you think that is all that women are interested in and men relate to.
How about a Red Sonja Origin based on reality?
Dagali is a young aboriginal girl (14) who is chased down the dirt road through her community by Powerful community elders who abduct girls to be raped by young men as part of their sex education under Men's business.
She is approached by a spirit offering her power to seek justice.
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Cough up a origin...
I'm trying to remember a gender-specific origin of a male superhero, and failing miserably. I see no reason that the alien starship that crashed onto the Kents' farm near Smallville couldn't have been holding a female baby, or that the Waynes' daughter couldn't have seen her parents shot by a Gotham City criminal and sworn vengeance. I don't see any reason that Petrina Parker couldn't have been bitten by a radioactive spider, or that Antonia Stark wouldn't have invented a battlesuit. Even Captain America could have been a WAC who volunteered for the testing.
Here's a radical suggestion for you, yd, that should influence the rest of the nonsense you post.
Women are people. To be treated as such, not as some bizarre creation that requires completely new sets of rules to be applied to them.
Stop watching them. Get everyone you know to stop watching them. The easiest way to get Hollywood to stop doing something is to make it unprofitable.
That's also, oddly enough, the hardest way. Because it's the only way to get Hollywood to stop doing something.
Not only that, but judging from what I have seen, people fail at boycotting.
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How about a Red Sonja Origin based on reality?
How about an origin story that doesn't have to be about gender?
You seem to have missed the whole point about the Captain Marvel article you yourself quoted; Captain Marvel is not about her being a girl. It's about her being a superhero.
How about you pretend that women can do heroic things without needing to be raped first? I know that probably expands your view of the possible....
Dagali is a young aboriginal girl (14) who is chased down the dirt road through her community by Powerful community elders who abduct girls to be raped by young men as part of their sex education under Men's business.
She is approached by a spirit offering her power to seek justice.
On behalf of 8th:
Evil misogynistic men - tick
Oppressed woman - tick
Rape/forced pregnancy - tick
Followed up by a lot of revenge fantasy smack down.
Why not make a parody / satire mocking those assumptions about male and female superheroes just to prove a point?
Not only that, but judging from what I have seen, people fail at boycotting.Stop watching them. Get everyone you know to stop watching them. The easiest way to get Hollywood to stop doing something is to make it unprofitable.
That's also, oddly enough, the hardest way. Because it's the only way to get Hollywood to stop doing something.
No, but they're awesome at not going to see movies that aren't going to be fun to watch.
The superhero movie genre is interesting. Nothing for a long time, then the Superman films in the 1970s, then nothing, then Tim Burton's Batman (1989?) which basically reinvented the genre and opened the way for lots of new stuff. Then another gap, and now the new Marvel stuff. I suspect the 2020's will see a dearth of superhero movies precisely because every half-baked studio is going to be rushing ever half-baked hero they can get the rights to into film -- "Great, just what the world needs, a Hawkman film!" and people will start staying away by the busload.
How much money did they lose on The Shadow? Catwoman? Ghost Rider?
I have it.
A strange alien spaceship crashes outside of Sydney at the country estate of Lord and Lady Wayne Bruce, a childless but kindly couple who adopt the infant girl they find inside. Unfortunately, a few years later, Lord and Lady Bruce are brutally murdered outside the Sydney opera house and young Sheila swears to protect other innocents by devoting herself to fighting crime. To do this, she studies robotics at Macquarie University, searching for the design of the perfect battlesuit, when she is accidentally bitten by a radioactive funnel-web spider that gives her strange powers.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Australia's answer to a world without heroes : Sheila Bruce, better known as Fabu-Lass!
Now that's a movie we could spend $200M on the SFX budget of. Even more, if we spend it in $AUS.
No, but they're awesome at not going to see movies that aren't going to be fun to watch.Not only that, but judging from what I have seen, people fail at boycotting.Stop watching them. Get everyone you know to stop watching them. The easiest way to get Hollywood to stop doing something is to make it unprofitable.
That's also, oddly enough, the hardest way. Because it's the only way to get Hollywood to stop doing something.
People didn't go to watch the Scott Pilgrim movie, even though it was a lot better than most movies around that time.
People didn't go to watch the Scott Pilgrim movie, even though it was a lot better than most movies around that time.
My understanding is that everyone who saw an advertisement for that movie eventually saw the movie. The first night. During the 7:30 showing, in cinema 4 of the Cineplex 20, just off of Rte. 18. Jesting aside, Universal more or less admits that it eff'ed up the marketing.
Hmmmm.... how about a girl who gets irradiated with gamma radiation, turning her into an intellectually handicapped monster with gigantic muscles and is gigantically strong, but just really wants to be left alone. This triggers as soon as she gets angry.
She-Hulk already exists. How much she differs from Hulk is something I am not that aware of.
"A movie that makes a lot of money." Which is why Hollywood will always make summer blockbusters.What does the word "blockbuster" mean to you?Crappy summer movies that have an awesome trailer and then, when you get to the theater, and the weed wears off, you realize the movie sucks.
What does it mean to you?
But they didn't always.
Hmmmm.... how about a girl who gets irradiated with gamma radiation, turning her into an intellectually handicapped monster with gigantic muscles and is gigantically strong, but just really wants to be left alone. This triggers as soon as she gets angry.
[insert PMS joke here]
But they didn't always.
"A movie that makes a lot of money." Which is why Hollywood will always make summer blockbusters.
No. Prior to the invention of motion pictures, Hollywood made very few summer movies that made a lot of money. None at all, in fact. It wasn't really until the motion picture industry was established as a profit-making venture that people started to take seriously the idea that they should make movies that made lots of money.
And the term "blockbuster" as a theatrical term for a money-making event only dates to the 1940s.
So, basically, you're right. Hollywood has only made summer blockbusters since the 1940s.
I am not talking about She-hulk. I am talking about a woman who changes the same way Hulk does, gets freakishly ugly and dumb as a post.
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I thought the first blockbuster was Jaws?
I have it.
A strange alien spaceship crashes outside of Sydney at the country estate of Lord and Lady Wayne Bruce, a childless but kindly couple who adopt the infant girl they find inside. Unfortunately, a few years later, Lord and Lady Bruce are brutally murdered outside the Sydney opera house and young Sheila swears to protect other innocents by devoting herself to fighting crime. To do this, she studies robotics at Macquarie University, searching for the design of the perfect battlesuit, when she is accidentally bitten by a radioactive funnel-web spider that gives her strange powers.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Australia's answer to a world without heroes : Sheila Bruce, better known as Fabu-Lass!
Now that's a movie we could spend $200M on the SFX budget of. Even more, if we spend it in $AUS.
I would actually watch that...
I would actually watch that...
Only if Nicole Kidman rides a BMX.
Write a synopsis with all names and pronouns being gender-neutral, or just ________. If the synopsis doesn't give away the gender of the character, you have a good start - as stated, all example synopses thus far (except Orfs, which LOL) have been the same hackneyed story. Go back and assign genders to characters afterward - changing names to fit if need be - and maybe you'll have a chance at coming up with something that's not just more of the same tripe.
I will leave this here...
It was done by the same guys that did this:Danger 5.
Only if Nicole Kidman rides a BMX.
I would actually watch that...
S&$$ yeh... BMX Bandits.
Italian Spiderman Trailer.
Ron Jeremy as Spiderman, I like it.
I'd love to watch a superhero movie with a female protagonist. But it'd have to be Elektra good, rather than Tomb Raider 2 bad.
I would actually watch that...
I'm sure someone would. I have a friend who will watch anything if the alternative is an evening at home with his wife and child. Not only will he go watch paint drying, but he will look longingly at the calendar of upcoming releases hoping for Primer: the Prequel.
And that is the dirty little "secret" of Hollywood; they will make absolutely anything if they think they can sell enough tickets. (I use "secret" in scare quotes because it's about as "secret" as Victoria's. I figured out her secret long ago -- she's an exhibitionist.) And basically nothing if they think they can't.
Now the trick is to figure out who to cast as the title role. Again, if we pick the name right, we can get drooling fans to come watch "Sheila Bruce" sit in a chair reading excerpts from a cookbook for ninety minutes, all to the greater glory of the Almighty Dollar.
Would you watch it twice if I could get Natalie Portman in the role?
The Superwoman exists, and she is Australian. However despite my best wishes she goes to UNSW.
I should know, I'm the Russell Crowe of this universe.
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Write a synopsis with all names and pronouns being gender-neutral, or just ________.
Pat works for the police force, and has a partner, Chris, who is two days from retirement. When Chris is kidnapped by Evil Space Aliens from the Planet Spandex, Pat has to come to the rescue. In the process, Chris is frozen in carbonite and Pat is exposed to a magical radioactive space McGuffin (coming soon to Toys'R'Expensive, by way of China). With the Awesome Power of Awesomeness thus granted, Pat wreaks vengeance on the space aliens, rescues Chris, and promises to save the earth from Evil Space Aliens, terrorists, inflation, and halitosis, if only the producers will fork out more money for Even More of the Same Tripe.
maybe you'll have a chance at coming up with something that's not just more of the same tripe.
... or maybe not :-(
But even so, I still like this synopsis better than most of the others in this thread. Maybe I can get funding for this one after I've finished Paint Drying III: Top Coat.
maybe you'll have a chance at coming up with something that's not just more of the same tripe.... or maybe not :-(
I did say "maybe" and "a chance" ;) Satisfaction not guaranteed
I would actually watch that...
I'm sure someone would. I have a friend who will watch anything if the alternative is an evening at home with his wife and child. Not only will he go watch paint drying, but he will look longingly at the calendar of upcoming releases hoping for Primer: the Prequel.
And that is the dirty little "secret" of Hollywood; they will make absolutely anything if they think they can sell enough tickets. (I use "secret" in scare quotes because it's about as "secret" as Victoria's. I figured out her secret long ago -- she's an exhibitionist.) And basically nothing if they think they can't.
Now the trick is to figure out who to cast as the title role. Again, if we pick the name right, we can get drooling fans to come watch "Sheila Bruce" sit in a chair reading excerpts from a cookbook for ninety minutes, all to the greater glory of the Almighty Dollar.
Would you watch it twice if I could get Natalie Portman in the role?
It would have to be Kylie Minogue, Emilie de Ravin, Yvonne Strahovski, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Claudia Black, Claudia Karvan, or Rebel Wilson.
It would have to be Kylie Minogue, Emilie de Ravin, Yvonne Strahovski, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Claudia Black, Claudia Karvan, or Rebel Wilson.
Would you watch it twice if I could get Natalie Portman in the role?
Ah. A dwarf of upscale tastes, I see.
Ah. A dwarf of upscale tastes, I see.It would have to be Kylie Minogue, Emilie de Ravin, Yvonne Strahovski, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Claudia Black, Claudia Karvan, or Rebel Wilson.
Would you watch it twice if I could get Natalie Portman in the role?
Rebel Wilson has to be one of my favourite actresses at the moment, she is a laugh machine.
Ahhh Claudia... we used to have baths together as kids.