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1 posted on 10/09/2013 7:10:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I always wondered, is Katniss the kind of female action movie/tv hero that Freepers want to see more of or less of. When it comes to female action heroes in the vein of Katniss, Buffy, Ziva David and others, on FR people are often pretty heavily divided on whether or not they should be on movies and tv screens. Some say yes, others say they have sucha negative influence that in an ideal world they would be banned from movies and tv shows for being too dangerous (yes i have seen people on FR who I suspect would want this).


2 posted on 10/09/2013 7:19:55 PM PDT by freedom462
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Haven’t seen shoes that funky since Joe Jackson’s “Look Sharp” album.

I think a more interesting female character is the dis-functional Lisbeth Salander of the Millenium series.


5 posted on 10/09/2013 7:36:40 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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I prefer realistic films and such. When a female is portrayed as a superhuman, knocking around hulking bad guy minions like tenpins, it borders on ridiculous.

Nick Cage as a computer nerd with latent SEAL skills in "the rock" was silly. An 110 lb heroine who can kick every kind of juiced up ass is a total departure from reality.

7 posted on 10/09/2013 7:43:30 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
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The problem with Katniss Whatsername isn't that she's female, it's that she's a two-dimensional character in a thoroughly boring, unoriginal, and unimaginative series; as I suspect the Dauntless heroine is.

Some of the "virtues" this author believes in are actually not virtues: "selflessness" isn't a virtue -- in some contexts it isn't even a positive, "intelligence" is an accident of birth, and "peace" isn't anything at all.

It's not surprising that morally confused times produce morally confused ideas. I think you'll find FReepers who understand the cardinal virtues are less fussed about her gender (at least she has one, thank God for small favors) than how stupid the books sound.

9 posted on 10/09/2013 7:52:29 PM PDT by FredZarguna (With bell, book, and candle, please.)
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