Sentences with phrase «grants women characters»

Katniss is a marvelous cutdown of the preposterousness that too often passes for heroism in Hollywood, and a marvelous jab at the limited autonomy Hollywood most often grants women characters.

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And that is especially the case given the demand that female characters — and actual human women — be constantly likable has a way of limiting the stories we can tell about fictional women, and imposing restrictions on the opportunities and chances granted women in the real world.

It was also exciting to see female characters represented in such prominent roles, especially since the film is set less then a decade after women were granted the right to vote.

George is a bit of a womanizer, but when he hits it off with feisty ex-waitress Cassie (Ann Sheridan), he's ready to settle down; Paul has a wife back home pressuring him to get her pregnant, and let's just say the movie has a habit of granting its female characters exactly what they wish for with unusual disregard for the free will of Joe, Paul, and people like Ed Carlsen (Alan Hale), husband to a woman, Lana (Ida Lupino, later Hale Jr.'s director on several episodes of «Gilligan's Island»), who considers herself one of Joe's old flames and still carries an Olympic - size torch for him.