The literally silent women protagonist leaves a super bad taste in my mouth.
She’s deaf and speaks with sign language, she’s not a silent woman. Like, can we agree that deaf representation in media is important? Can we agree that ASL representation in media is important? This is an adult-oriented romance/sci-fi movie where the female lead is a deaf woman. How can you act like this isn’t significant? The last gif has a deaf woman in the 60s standing up to an aggressive man and telling him to go fuck himself.
This movie is doing something that has probably never been done before. But hey, she can’t talk “normally” like a hearing woman and that’s bad, so go off I guess.
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yes but quick correction! I don’t believe she’s deaf! I think she is mute! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t want people going in expecting one thing and being disappointed. This is still very important representation though!
they said in the trailer “she’s not deaf. she can hear you.” so yeah, while she isn’t deaf, she is mute, and it’s still important representation!!
Del Toro loves metaphor and symbolism. So having a silent protagonist is right up his alley. And if you can’t see why it’s important just from the symbolism alone that the silenced underclass stands up against a man representing the systematic oppression of others, then I don’t know what can be done.
I don’t know what it is about Star Wars but even if it’s not your biggest fandom, it still has the funniest memes by a long shot I mean “look at all the fucks i give anakin” and “your poncho is a piece of junk” and anakin hates sand it’s all just 1000% pure class
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What is with the trope of strong girl characters (like teens and kids) growing up to be docile domestic housewives with no character substance/depth/personality whatsoever completely going against like everything they stood for and identified with when they were younger as if thats just what happens to women when they’re adults
Someone who has revolved their life around a set of hard morals and defining traits and characteristics from basically childhood to young adult hood isn’t just going to completely flip around because they got married or turned 30. this only ever happens to the girl characters. marriage might as well be the the equivalent of killing off a girl character because the second they’re married their personality disappears and they’re shoved off as a background character when they used to be a pivotal character in the series
it’s Bad Writing scoobs
I think the way to do it right is mrs curtis from FMA who never once stopped being a badass fighter and uses the fact that shes a housewife as a badass one liner.
Please guys make sure your Black Panther tickets say Black Panther. Don’t let the movie theatres try and tell you they ran out of tickets and are just giving you a ticket under a different movie’a name. It’s take away from the official counting to see how many people actually saw the movie. DONT JUST LIKE THIS POST SHARE IT TO LET EVERYONE ELSE KNOW!
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