Posted on 05/05/2015 6:39:50 AM PDT by C19fan
A couple of years back, I had the pleasure of conducting a sit-down interview with filmmaker Joss Whedon for Newsweek magazine. The occasion was his post-Avengers passion project, Much Ado About Nothing—an impeccably staged and delightfully droll riff on the Shakespeare classic filmed with a cast of pals over 12 days at Whedon’s Santa Monica home. The experience was, according to Whedon, a spiritual cleansing of sorts; a respite from the drudgery of assembling a gazillion-dollar superhero epic that reminded him why he fell in love with visual storytelling in the first place. And, like many film and television projects in the Whedon canon, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dollhouse to his unproduced Wonder Woman screenplay, it featured a ballsy, no-nonsense heroine at its center.
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What feminists hate is the fact that the only thing men care about a female ‘super hero’ is their figure.
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