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As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.

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That's good news for women who want to portray multidimensional characters and right now, Plaza is playing one of the most bonkers on television.

A Cambodian woman is told to take on a Japanese character, playing into the perception that all Asians are smart, shy and skilled at martial arts.

Still, some of Hollywood's most famous women from Kate Winslet to Helena Bonham Carter to Julia Stiles and Daisy Ridley have all played the fictional character.

But when boys play them and identify with the male characters in the game, it can lead to agreement with some pretty disturbing beliefs about masculinity and how to treat women.»

«The cheerleader effect is when a group of women seems hot, but only as a group,» says the character Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris.

The rumored casting has been made official, making Brie the first woman in history to play a title character for Marvel.

The flick stars Josh Brolin (that movie where he's all purple and wants to destroy all the superheroes with a glove), George Clooney (Nippily Batman), Channing Tatum (that movie that all women went to go see), Scarlett Johansson (that movie where Jason Bourne buys a zoo), Jonah Hill (Oscar nominated actor), Ralph Fiennes (He - Who - Shall - Not - Be-Named), Frances McDormand (that movie I mentioned where she played a pregnant cop), Alden Ehrenreich (who played a character named Flamingo once) and Tilda Swinton (Conan O» Brien's female twin).

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► Babies flatulate in a tub of water and giggle, a baby spits up on a woman, and babies and another character play in mud.

«A Good Woman,» a ham - fisted adaptation of Wilde's play «Lady Windermere's Fan,» suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut - and - paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character.

Based on the play by Oscar Wilde, A Good Woman is chock full of clever dialogue and witty characters - unfortunately, there's not a single character here worth caring about or rooting for.

The arguments start to wear on the audience as much as the characters, and by the time we get to the scene in which Ben's mother (played by the invaluable Susie Essman, of «Curb Your Enthusiasm») Explains Women To Him in a tidy little monologue, even he has to admit that «that's a little reductive.»

In addition, the DVD includes numerous featurettes: «The Last Ride: The Story of The Missing» (with emphasis on its differences from most Westerns, that is, «It's not about cattle or land» and features strong women characters); «New Frontiers: Making The Missing» (featuring earnest declarations of mutual respect among the cast and crew); «The Modern Western Score» (with Horner); «Casting The Missing» (in which Eric Schweig, who plays the villain Chiden, observes, «This guy is like a hate junkie.

The only characters to not fall into cliched dichotomies of rag - tag rebels and power - mad gentry are the women — a mystic of unclear purpose and unclear accent, played by Katey Sagal, and a demure but calculating baroness, played with quiet intelligence by Flora Spencer - Longhurst.

Charley's mom walked out when he was young, and his dad is a beer - bellied slob (played by one - time Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel, here looking more like the redneck version of his rugged «Vikings» character), not a bad guy, but no role model either, getting drunk after work and using what remains of his homecoming - king charm to bring home local women (it's a part better suited to Steve Zahn, who appears later, miscast as an abusive, borderline - homeless man).

Going the extra mile, Coogler also pushes forward several strong female characters who are noble, intelligent, fierce and heroic, but also grounds them as separate and distinctly female entities, rather than just generic roles that just happen to be played by women.

Studi brings gravitas and sensitivity to the project, and Pike gives her best performance ever playing a character who changes from an extremely frightened victim to one of the strongest women I've seen on screen during the past decade.

Claire Bloom talks about playing «a woman attracted to a woman» and the fact that Harris avoided a friendship during filming to maintain friction between their characters.

Aside from the main themes and characters, there's that divorced - women's support group, run by Dorothy's cynical sister (the expertly wisecracking Bonnie Hunt); a «child - care technician» obsessed with modern jazz; and run - ins with various sporting figures, both real (from Frank Gifford to Katarina Witt) and fictional, such as a superstar quarterback played by TV's Jerry O'Connell, and his hard - nosed dad (an uncredited Beau Bridges).

British character actress Julie Walters has made a career out of playing working - class women with good hearts and sharp tongues — which should come as no surprise, given her background.

The man, in the grip of a daddy complex he shares with various other characters, helps his woman, a Cuban expat played by Zoe Saldana, open a beachfront colony for abandoned women and children, for God's sake.

I think that novelist - now - screenwriter Emma Donoghue originally wanted to present an ironic counterpoint for a character who is manic and crazed from seven years as a sex - slave captive (five of them as a mother), oublietted away in some freak's (Sean Bridgers, who already played this role in Lucky McKee's The Woman) garden shed.

The woman is named Loretta, and she is played by Alfre Woodard in a performance that is like an act of sympathy with the character.

Hathaway will play Megan, a young woman who reacts to her boyfriend's marriage proposal by pretending to go on a career retreat while she's really hiding out with her new best friend, Moretz's character, 16 - year - old Annika.

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

The Wrap reports that Leigh will be playing the character of Daisy Domergue, a woman wanted for murder who is due to hang for her crimes.

There's the crazy housemate (Tom Hollander, funny as a surly playwright); there's the kooky, damaged woman close to the main character (Lydia Wilson playing Tim's troubled sister, Kit Kat).

Lewis plays her character as a somewhat vapid and squeaky shell of a woman, but instead of settling for cheap laughs, her Karen feels wretchedly wrecked, another victim of her surely troubled upbringing now saddled with a distorted concept of love.

Often as the film plays out I found myself just wanting to shove the ungrateful, delirious woman in a home and hear more about supporting characters like Frances de la Tour's nosey neighbor Ursula Vaughan Williams.

The characters Beatty plays are near polar opposites except in one important way: they are lost until women come along to show them the way.

Fonda can't do much with the character, an aggregation of cliches: Grace wears baggy print dresses, grows pot in her basement, drives a Volkswagen Beetle, presides over monthly bacchanals where women worship the full moon, and says things like, «Then Hendrix comes onstage to play, and my water breaks!»

In addition to playing multiple characters on «Orphan Black,» Maslany recently played the younger version of Helen Mirren «s character in «Woman in Black» and wrapped the indie movie «Two Lovers and a Bear» with Dane DeHaan.

The point was brought up that women prefer the stronger performance by Annette Bening because she plays a strong character, a «mama grizzly» standing up for her family and her relationship.

In Karel Reisz's 1981 film of «The French Lieutenant's Woman,» two stars, played by Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, are shown having a love affair off the set that parallels the one their characters are having in the 19th century.

Mara plays Therese, a quiet, thoughtful young woman not yet sure what she'll do with her life; Blanchett is the poised, precise title character — we know, without being told, that this woman smells of delicious perfume.

Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.

In her first major screen role, Daniela Vega, who plays Marina Vidal, the beleaguered central character in Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, elevates even the most mundane action — petting a dog, lifting an arm to activate a motion - sensor hallway light — into a gesture of minor majesty.

Part of the movie focuses on abuse and the cycles of violence it can create, but it's treated with the same clunkiness as the supposedly - comic romantic subplot that sees sidekick characters, played by Whannell and Angus Sampson, hitting on a couple of much younger women.

You can't create your character, you can't even play as a woman, you can't save when you want, and doesn't looks like it's offering anything which other games are already doing.

This identity disorder — Sofia is one of contemporary cinema's most filmed cities, yet rarely plays itself — is personified by the lead character (Elika Portnoy), a Bulgarian woman with multiple personalities, each one belonging to a different genre: a bespectacled, blonde educator with a controlling husband (domestic drama), a redheaded belly dancer (romance à la Zalman King), and jet - black - haired professional assassin (thriller).

His character from The Wedding Singer, having just lost the woman he loves, vents his heartbreak on the unsuspecting reception he's playing.

«The early plays had very strong women,» he said, singling out 1996's «The Beauty Queen of Lenane,» his first credit, which featured two women as its leads, the four prominent women characters in «The Cripple of Innishman,» and «The Lieutenant of Inishmore,» where «the strongest character was a woman.»

there is no way nasa would let a woman as incompetent as the character SB played go into space.

For one thing, the character's name is Susie Diamond, and she's written like a woman named Susie Diamond, and Pfeiffer plays her, to the hilt, like a woman named Susie Diamond.

It's pure Hollywood hokum, with the Vikings reduced to pagan cartoon barbarians who make sport of terrorizing women and take pride in the torture and murder — the fact that Janet Leigh's character lives in constant threat of sexual assault makes for uneasy viewing when the film plays it as some kind of «Taming of a Shrew» situation — but it is spectacular hokum.

Nyong» o's character is rumored to be Black Panther's love interest, while Gurira will play the chief of a group of warrior women.