The Leading Lady

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BuzzKilllington · 13/08/2018 08:53

Apologies if this has been posted already but I thought it was quite good and cleverly done

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2018/08/11/emilia-clarke-gemma-arterton-expose-hollywood-stereotypes-in-leading-lady-parts-7827976/amp/

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FermatsTheorem · 13/08/2018 13:25

There was another thread on this.

It's quite a good idea, but tries too hard (nowhere near as funny as the horrible histories team doing their historical movie pitches, for instance). I think for satire like this to work it either has to be outrageously over the top, or rather more subtle - the twist at the end. This just felt a bit like I'd been bludgeoned over the head.

ConfessionsOfTeenageDramaQueen · 13/08/2018 12:05

I enjoyed watching it but this is the kind of virtue signalling drivel I find it hard to get on board especially when it involves millionaire actresses who have no problem compromising their supposedly feminist beliefs by posing for designer perfume ads.

Yes, there is a stereotype of a leading lady, but there is of a leading man too. Should we also get upset because Chris Pratt never got any leading man roles until he lost weight?

WaddIelikeapenguin · 13/08/2018 11:31

That was brilliant! Thanks for posting

KatVonSweet · 13/08/2018 09:34

Ha. Thanks for that. Very well done

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