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All for one, and one for proper sword fighting attire

By Grace Published October 6, 2011

When I first saw the teaser trailer for the soon-to-be released The Three Mus­ke­teers, I thought they had added a lady to the bunch.

Milla Jovovich plays Milady de Win­ter, and she is one of Three Mus­ke­teers. And she also is not.

Turns out, de Win­ter is a dou­ble agent who only joined the Three Mus­ke­teers to destroy them. Accord­ing to her descrip­tion on the offi­cial movie site, she is quite successful:

Embody­ing beauty and grace, Milady shines with a heav­enly glow, win­ning the hearts of every man, includ­ing Athos [one of the Three Mus­ke­teers]. Yet Milady’s inno­cent demeanor masks an evil truth, and through decep­tion and irre­sistible sex­u­al­ity, the fate of Athos’ heart and that of France lies in the cold hands of a deadly assas­sin, a fal­lacy of love, the orig­i­nal femme fatale.

That’s a bunch of tired old  baloney.  It’s a bum­mer that de Win­ter is not a real Musketeer—and it’s garbage that Hol­ly­wood won’t quit recy­cling the overly sim­plis­tic femme fatale trope or let go of the whole virgin/whore thing.

But what really bunches my britches is de Winter’s duds.

Source: MTV.com

That’s a damn silly out­fit for a sword fight. Is she wear­ing a gown, or a Per­sian rug? And what kind of prod­uct keeps your curls par­a­lyzed even dur­ing a mid-air sword fight?

Can’t a girl get some pantaloons?

Her­Links:

“Why Cleav­age is Bad for Crime Fight­ing”

 

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Always the bridesmaid, never the bride

By Grace Published September 20, 2011

Is Hol­ly­wood finally start­ing to wake up to its woman problem?

What we’re hear­ing from peo­ple in the enter­tain­ment indus­try is that there just isn’t enough.

There aren’t enough good roles for women. There aren’t enough women pro­duc­ing, whether on the busi­ness or the cre­ative end.

The Brides­maids movie was a big deal for obvi­ous and frus­trat­ing rea­sons. Just  Google “Why Brides­maids mat­ters,” and you’ll read lots about how Brides­maids is proof that women are funny [in the way that men are funny, which is of course the only sort of funny avail­able at the box office]. Some called it the female ver­sion of The Hang­over, which is so typ­i­cal it hurts.

But Brides­maids is not proof that women are funny because women do not have any­thing to prove to any­one but themselves. What Brides­maids really proves is that Brides­maids is not enough. We’re hun­gry for a more inclu­sive Hol­ly­wood; we’re hun­gry for more movies that make us feel like Brides­maids.

Her­Links:

TV’s fall lineup is both nos­tal­gic for the sex­ism of yore (the grass is always greener, right?) and full steam ahead to a bright fem­i­nist future, accord­ing to The New York Times.

“Why Brides­maids Is Important”

“Why Is Tele­vi­sion Los­ing Women Writ­ers? Vet­eran Pro­duc­ers Weigh In”

 

 

 

 

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