Comments on: A Woman’s Advice to Hollywood http://www.writingiscake.com/2010/02/01/a-womans-advice-to-hollywood/ That tasty, tasty hobby... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Rose713 http://www.writingiscake.com/2010/02/01/a-womans-advice-to-hollywood/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Rose713 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:00:18 +0000 http://www.writingiscake.com/?p=860#comment-640 Most times romance in an action movie feels like a checklist item for the producer - crash scene, romance, happy ending. If the male-female relationship is central to the story it works, but far too often it's superfluous and unsatisfying. Even some Rom-Coms suffer from contrived romance story lines. Most times romance in an action movie feels like a checklist item for the producer – crash scene, romance, happy ending.

If the male-female relationship is central to the story it works, but far too often it’s superfluous and unsatisfying. Even some Rom-Coms suffer from contrived romance story lines.

]]> By: Stace http://www.writingiscake.com/2010/02/01/a-womans-advice-to-hollywood/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Stace Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:11:24 +0000 http://www.writingiscake.com/?p=860#comment-636 Forgive my feminist paranoia, but I fully subscribe to the idea that romance is injected into action movies as a lizard-brain "alpha male wins woman as prize" conceit. Trinity is a better female character than most, but she still really only exists to validate what an awesome person Neo is, and it makes me nuts. .-= Stace´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.stacyholmstedt.com/?p=225" rel="nofollow">Online news subscriptions are fine, BUT</a> =-. Forgive my feminist paranoia, but I fully subscribe to the idea that romance is injected into action movies as a lizard-brain “alpha male wins woman as prize” conceit.

Trinity is a better female character than most, but she still really only exists to validate what an awesome person Neo is, and it makes me nuts.
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