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Maybe that&#8217;s why my<br \/>\nexpectations for action movies are so high. All I want is a strong, female<br \/>\naction hero (in action clothes &#8211; no that doesn&#8217;t mean wearing aerosoles heels)<br \/>\nto be the main star of an adventure film. How hard is that? Search the World<br \/>\nWide Web, and you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;m not the only one complaining. But at least now I<br \/>\nknow why: The Hollywood movie formula. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It started out in the 70&#8217;s with movies like Rocky and Jaws.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still around today. Any popular non-indie movie follows the &#8216;high concept&#8217;<br \/>\nformula. It&#8217;s simple. The hero has a flaw (so you can relate). There are<br \/>\nenabling circumstances surrounding that flaw. Suddenly, there&#8217;s a life-changing<br \/>\nevent. The hero faces obstacles and an opponent. The hero also has an ally that<br \/>\neither shows an example of how to change, or how not to be. The hero has many<br \/>\nchances to overcome his flaw but still doesn&#8217;t. The stakes change (climax).<br \/>\nThen there&#8217;s a choice to be made, but the flaw is tested many times before this<br \/>\nhappens. The choice then leads to a resolution which in Hollywood always<br \/>\nequates to &#8216;getting the girl.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For example, in As Good As It Gets. Melvin Udall is OCD. He<br \/>\nhas a way of life, a job and a waitress (ally) who support his OCD (flaw). The<br \/>\nlife-changing event happens when Frank (opponent) tells him to take care of<br \/>\nSimon&#8217;s dog, and the waitress&#8217;s son gets so sick she can&#8217;t keep her job. Melvin<br \/>\nhas many opportunities to change, but instead chooses to keep the flaw and<br \/>\nchange others. Until he has an opportunity to &#8216;get the girl&#8217; (the stakes) and<br \/>\nthen tries to take his pills and gets the girl. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This formula can be applied to almost all successful movies<br \/>\ntoday that have immediate success in the box office. Of course there are movies<br \/>\nthat don&#8217;t follow the formula and are successful, but these are what the<br \/>\nproducers look for. So why no women?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The movie that made me realize what was wrong was Crouching<br \/>\nTiger, Hidden Dragon. The movie follows three very strong, very beautiful, very<br \/>\npowerful women. None of them &#8216;Get the Girl&#8217; in the end. In fact, they all lose!<br \/>\nNow there are formulas where the hero doesn&#8217;t &#8216;get the girl&#8217; &#8211; a perfect<br \/>\nexample is Leaving Las Vegas. In this case Nicholas Cage is an alcoholic<br \/>\n(flaw), he meets Elizabeth Shue (ally) but in the end he chooses to die with<br \/>\nhis flaw. But that&#8217;s not how action movies go, and I&#8217;m talking about action<br \/>\nmovies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there is a woman warrior<br \/>\nwho is in love. Her love is away meditating on a mountaintop somewhere. There<br \/>\nis a younger woman. She falls in love. She is also arranged to be married and<br \/>\nmust do so to uphold her family&#8217;s honor. There is another woman, a woman<br \/>\nwithout honor, who fights for her right to learn as men do, the secrets of a<br \/>\ncertain school of martial arts. They each stay strong until the very end.<br \/>\nAmazingly, their strength is not in their physical ability, but in their solitude.<br \/>\nThey never &#8216;give in&#8217; to their relationships with their lovers. They never allow<br \/>\nthemselves to give up on their honor or their obligations to their family and<br \/>\nthe one they love. The older woman has a job to do and so does her husband,<br \/>\nthey honor their positions, far away from each other despite how much they love<br \/>\neach other. The younger woman longs for a life with her rogue boyfriend but<br \/>\nholds the responsibility of honoring her family so much so, that she jumps off<br \/>\na sacred mountain believing that it will make her dreams come true. The woman<br \/>\nwith no honor is looking for justice and instead gets revenge, killing and<br \/>\nbeing killed by, the man the older woman loves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Are men the reason women cannot be strong in today&#8217;s movies?<br \/>\nA strong female figure cannot star with a male figure without disabling both<br \/>\ncharacters. Either the woman has to be strong and the man has to be a wimp or<br \/>\nthere is no man at all, and if that&#8217;s the case, is there a large enough<br \/>\naudience to support a movie with a single, strong female character? If so,<br \/>\nwould the movie producers see it that way? I don&#8217;t think so.if it doesn&#8217;t fit<br \/>\nthe formula, it doesn&#8217;t fit their budgets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon obviously does not fit the<br \/>\nHollywood Formula &#8211; for many reasons. Yet it was successful. James Cameron<br \/>\ndirected Aliens. He understands the money-making power of a strong female<br \/>\ncharacter. Yet in Avatar, Neytiri was a perfect opportunity to capitalize on<br \/>\nthis, and in a way he did, but following the formula (and not in a good way),<br \/>\nNeytiri gives up and stands BEHIND her man, immediately stripping her of all<br \/>\nher strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">More examples (Please keep in mind that most of these<br \/>\ncharacters are not even leading women):<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">True Lies.Jamie Lee Curtis has the guts to prostitute<br \/>\nherself to save the world until her husband &#8216;saves the day!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Star Wars, Princess Leia kicks ass and brings down the whole<br \/>\nentire empire only to give in to Han Solo with &#8220;I love you!&#8221; and the<br \/>\nperfect response, &#8220;I know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Matrix &#8211; Trinity is the star until &#8216;the one&#8217; has to save<br \/>\neveryone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kill Bill &#8211; Lots of great female characters of course and<br \/>\nyou can see how it worked so well &#8211; the fianc\u00e9 died at the very beginning of<br \/>\nthe movie!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Harry Potter &#8211; Hermione is always second wand, but not bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fifth Element &#8211; probably one of the best in my book but of<br \/>\ncourse she&#8217;s not allowed to have a man as she has to &#8216;stay pure!&#8217; (A Fifth<br \/>\nElement II would&#8217;ve been bad).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pirates of the Carribean &#8211; They did this well &#8211; keeping the<br \/>\nlovebirds apart!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Incredibles &#8211; great but once again, second fiddle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lara Croft Tomb Raider &#8211; Just not a good character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So what do I want? What would satisfy me? An action heroine<br \/>\n(who has a flaw), on an adventure (not a killing spree in heels), who overcomes<br \/>\nher flaw (without being hated), and saves the world. How much is that to ask?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Information on &#8220;High Concept Movie&#8221; formula\/term<br \/>\ntaken from &#8220;How to write High Structure High Concept Movies&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Heather Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching action movies since I was 6 years old when Dad brought me to see Alien at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ggg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/global-gals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}