{"id":153737,"date":"2015-05-21T13:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/21\/12-women-are-on-screen-all-with-speaking-roles\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:08:52","slug":"12-women-are-on-screen-all-with-speaking-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/21\/12-women-are-on-screen-all-with-speaking-roles\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>12 women are on screen, all with speaking roles, and none of them are talking about a man. It not only outpaces mediocre measurements like the Bechdel Test\u2014which the vast majority of Hollywood films never attempt to pass\u2014it reminds you how feeble they were as yardsticks to begin with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/entertainment\/mad-max-fury-road-review\/?tu=dd\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Max: Fury Road is everything you\u2019ve heard and so much more<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Just as important is Hardy\u2019s choice to play Max as a subtle, quietly feminist hero. Max never objectifies the women he\u2019s with, or views them as props for his own agenda. He helps when he\u2019s asked to help, and when he finally speaks for any length of time, it\u2019s not to take charge of a group that\u2019s floundering without his help\u2014it\u2019s to make a suggestion, stand back, and then let the group decide.<\/p>\n<p>This view of what equality actually looks like in a film is rare enough; but it\u2019s even rarer to see it in this kind of genre material.\u00a0<i>Fury Road<\/i> is every inch the high-testosterone, manly action movie of your dreams. And even when they show weakness, its female characters are still fully in charge of their own destinies. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/entertainment\/mad-max-fury-road-review\/?tu=dd\" target=\"_blank\">[Read More]<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydot.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">dailydot<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 women are on screen, all with speaking roles, and none of them are talking about a man. It not only outpaces mediocre measurements like the Bechdel Test\u2014which the vast majority of Hollywood films never attempt to pass\u2014it reminds you how feeble they were as yardsticks to begin with. Mad Max: Fury Road is everything &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/21\/12-women-are-on-screen-all-with-speaking-roles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1513,1512,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}