Some characters—be it a movie, a book, or any other form of expression—are so well-written, it feels like you know a person exactly like that or you can relate to them yourself. Others, not so much. In fact, some of thoseotherscan be so far-fetched, clichéd, or inaccurate, you can’t help but roll your eyes or even shame the writer.
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No one under-writes a female role like Christopher Nolan! The woman in Tenet is a real standout, they’re explaining what they’re up against and say “if this happens all of existence will be undone” and her response is “including my son!”. Because “mom” is exactly as far as the character goes.
90% of Bond girls
After seeing Oppenheimer recently it became painfully apparent that Christopher Nolan sucks at writing women. I can’t think of a single well-rounded female character in any of his films.u/taimychoo added:This man really casted Florence Pugh just to give her one nude scene and 67 seconds of dialogue, all the while fawning over Oppenheimer for no real reason
Uhh Padme pretending that Anakin’s game was working on her.
Megan Fox in Transformers.
Judd Apatow himself has come out and said the female leads in Knocked Up weren’t great. Very real male perspective on display for a film mostly about a woman going through an unexpected pregnancy.Electrical-Tiger-536 added:The scene where they’re grabbing multiple pregnancy tests, omg. I don’t believe there are many women out there who didn’t watch that and think “Those things are like $25 each!” Nobody spends hundreds of dollars on pregnancy tests in a single sitting.
There’s a movie called Born a Champion. There’s a great scene where our middle aged, bleach blond haired MMA fighter hero is talking to a young woman (who later falls in love with him because what hot woman doesn’t love wrinkles). She says the line every 40+ year old man with a pony tail and samurai sword wants to hear. I can’t remember the exact quote but it was roughly:“I work as a paralegal and I’m a part time model, but what I really want is to be a housewife and have kids”.
All the “born sexy yesterday” women. Has to be one of my least favorite tropes.u/Censius explained:For those that don’t know “born sexy yesterday” is a trope where a fully mature woman is created, seems to have incredible skill/power/intelligence, but lacks knowledge of the world. Think Fifth Element or Tron Legacy. They often fall in love with a happless dude, since they seem impressively knowledgeable about things, but really they’re just some guy.
Most biopic/brand pic movies have the archetypical “wife” character who’s just there to imbue conflict and have like one argument scene
I just rewatched Edward Scissorhands. As a teenager I was absolutely enthralled but looking back Kim has pretty lackluster writing. She’s pretty much only valued for her looks, is a jerk otherwise but that’s overlooked because beautiful. Her final line is still about her appearance “I want him to remember me as I was”.
I hated that so much.“You, a radioactive rage-controlled superhuman. Me, a woman who can’t procreate. We’re both monsters :(“
Working Girl. “I’ve got a mind for business and a bod for sin.” Yeah, no.
I feel like any of the Manic Pixie Chicks fit the bill as the are specifically written to advance the male antagonists self discovery. In some cases it boarders on meta, but it turns the female lead into a device instead of a character.
The female accompaniment in most Nic Cage movies are dead set on falling for him regardless of the red flag t-shirt his characters seem to wear.I do enjoy the majority of NC’s filmography for his “professionally chaotic” energy, but I cannot understand the romantic appeal at all.
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Rachel McAdams in both Sherlock Holmes and in Midnight in Paris is honestly just hard to watch. I am a bit biased as I don’t like her acting at all, but especially Midnight in Paris the dialogue is so bad for her character that it’s hard to blame her for the role. It’s hard to make something believable when there is no reality a woman would have her character’s dialogue to begin with.
Splash is a great example of this. As a kid I was like “yay, mermaids!” But as an adult it’s so cringe. She’s beautiful, naked a lot, wants to have sex with Tom hanks all the time, AND she’s ignorant about the world.
I do think the Honor Blackman pilot in Goldfinger is probably the worst offender.Pretty enough to be desirable, but not interested in men.She’ll say yes if you beat her up!Note- this is just as creepy as it sounds. This is not advice of any kind!!!!!!
While not among the worst, it’s pretty obvious with Anne Hathaway‘s and Jessica Chastain‘s characters in Interstellar. There‘s a hilarious skit on Youtube about the writing of those characters
I was watching Draft Day last night with Kevin Costner. Jennifer Garner plays what felt like to me to be a very clear man’s ideal woman. I’m not talking at all about how she knows the game of football very well or that she’s attractive but talking about how she interacts with her “man.” She treats him like he’s on a pedestal, the way she interacts and responds to him and supports him and lifts him up.
Suits has a lot of thatAfter watching the 1 season, i don’t think any character passed the Bechdell test
That woman who fell in love for no reason in particular with de Niro in Heat. And who is ok to flea with a criminal she barely just met.
My first thought was Natalie Portman in garden state.
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