The comprehensive list of films that wouldn't get made in the age of the Strong Female Lead
, the film that shot her to superstardom, wouldn't get made in today's #MeToo environment.about the 1990 film. "I don't really think you could make that movie now, right?... So many things you could poke a hole in."Sure, a romantic comedy about a sassy sex worker who's rescued off the streets by a bristly business tycoon after he hires her to pose as his girlfriend for a week doesn't have the empowered sheen of today's Strong Female Characters.
This is, after all, an industry that last month bestowed its highest honour on a film widely criticised as a "white saviour" fantasy., that grotesque Muppets-starring sex romp, was released in cinemas just over six months ago. If that's not proof you can still make pretty much anything in Hollywood, I'm not sure what is.Still, Roberts' comments speak to the mood of the moment.
According to '80s flicks, boys of the day spent a disproportionate amount of their school time piled around a toilet cubicle peephole, peering into the neighbouring girls' bathroom to catch a glimpse of big-busted "Becky" or "Mallory" in the midst of showering. As someone who was a real-life boy in the '80s, I can confirm this was an exaggeration.
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