Eliminatus said:JayHowdy! said:
I don't know who mentioned it earlier, but the part written for Phoenix is how you right a part for a women (non-love interest) in a male dominated cast. There was no grandstanding that she was a women pilot, no feminist lecture, or woke culture to go with her part. She was a naval aviator that was there to train and complete the mission, just like the other pilots. I paid special attention for this on my second viewing, and appreciated her role even more the 2nd time.
Couldn't help but think the same. Really just goes to show how forceful that image you are talking about has become so domineering that when a woman is truly just "one of the guys and is there because of what she can do, not her vagina" it stands out so much.
Was nice to see. Even was mentioned elsewhere in articles.
""Initially she was written like she was overcompensating for the fact that she was a woman in the original script and being the bro-iest bro of the crew," Barbaro said of Phoenix's beginnings. While Monica and the rest of the actors were in training, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joe Kosinski and leading man Tom Cruise had already started tweaking her character.
"As I was in training, they were like, 'OK, just FYI, she's changing a lot,'" Barbaro said. "It was really important to Tom [Cruise] and Joe [Kosinski] and Paramount, and then also so important to the Navy and our pilot consultants, to represent her in that strong, capable way where she's just really confident about what she's great at and not overcompensating for everything.""
Great direction with it and allowed her to truly star in her own way.
Now being the male chauvinistic, evil, cis gen, monster that I am, I must say I found her incredibly attractive in the whole movie.
They followed the stargate sg1 Samantha Carter model where the woman is ultra capable at her job but is also highly professional and disciplined, which is exactly what you would expect from someone who is one of the elite in that kind of military role.
The movie was amazing. Saw it tonight, both my wife and I loved it. It was absolutely a throwback to the old style Patriotism in an American military movie. The flight scenes were the best I've ever seen in any movie sci-fi or not. The way they showed the g forces on the actors was ground breaking, I'll never believe another movie that doesn't do this.
The story was superb and every character was good. One of the best overall action movies I've ever seen.
