Real-life women are not aliens from Venus or in possession of preternatural powers (“female intuition”), they are first and foremost people, just like men, and that’s the part that films quite frequently have trouble with - featuring a woman doesn’t mean you need to drown her character in feminine tropes. There are more outliers to this trend than there used to be, yes, and the stereotypes have evolved over time, but underneath it all, an irksome trend remains: the idea that women are “other.”Ĭommentators lamenting female representation are not saying there is a picture of womanhood that movies are missing or misrepresenting, but rather a lack of diversity, not just regarding race and age, but personality and narrative role. Women made up just 32 percent of speaking characters in 2016 on movie screens, according to a recent study, and when women do show up, they are often thrown into one of a handful of narrative roles. ![]() In certain ways, her character is even repetitive and unoriginal, but this is not a criticism - it is progress. Hela (Cate Blanchett) is primarily there to send Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and company on an outrageously entertaining intergalactic road trip and forcibly fix Thor’s hammer dependency. ![]() Thor: Ragnarok is not a villain-centric narrative.
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