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[moominmolly]

I haven't seen Up yet. I probably will. But when I first read the synopsis, something snapped: AAAUUUUGH YET ANOTHER ADVENTURE MOVIE ABOUT A BOY OMFG. I think I bored everyone that day with my blah blah no movies about girls blah blah blah. But all I've seen so far are people talking about how good it was, or how sad, or possibly both. Nothing new there, really. So it was wonderful to catch this on twitter: "Ask Pixar to make a movie about a girl? Why, that's just P.C. B.S.!", referencing this open letter on NPR.org, entitled "Dear Pixar, from all the girls with band-aids on their knees". Read them both. It won't take long. (Also of note: a column about the Bechdel rule, and how hard it is to find movies that fit it.)

No point here, just life as usual.

Comments

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

that's one of the reasons i love miyazaki so much. some protagonists are girls, some are boys. and there seem to be more girls! and it's not a giant feminist statement... it just... is.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and when the girls are Princesses? They KICK ASS.
Mononoke, and Nausica?
No, Disney grade Princesses, yo.

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

yes! they are allowed to go out and DO things. without a bevy of guards. or a tiger bodyguard.

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

also, the guy who produces the english versions of studio ghibli movies, john lassiter, happens to be the very same guy who runs pixar. he and miyazaki are good friends. there's already a connection. wouldn't it be amazing if miyazaki and pixar made a movie together? *wistful sigh*