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[rm]

Cate Blanchett interview:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/15/film.cateblanchett.ap/index.html

"To have someone walk into court who's literally gone to the edges of the known world. How incredible and expansive must that have been for her, her sense of poetry and the possibility of what life could be," Blanchett said. "It was interesting, I found, to play a vicariousness in the relationship with Raleigh, rather than simply making it, here comes Clive Owen, isn't he handsome?

"Which of course he is, and undeniably charming. But to actually sort of say, 'I'd like to BE him.' I've certainly had those experiences. I was talking today about watching the 'Indiana Jones' films. My experience was as a young girl, and of course, you want to kiss Harrison Ford. But I wanted to BE him. I wanted to BE Indiana Jones and have those adventures."

See, this is great. This is one of those experiences that I think lots of young girls have -- "I want to be the hero" and then we learn that we're supposed to want the kiss the hero too or instead. I think we still don't talk about that enough, this idea that role models can be outside gender and that desire can be outside sex.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I think you are missing my point.

For one thing, Trinity may kick ass, but that story is still about Neo.

Secondly, I'm not advocating these "girl adventurers" stories -- they seem like scraps tossed at us as opposed to adventurers who happen to be female.

I'm saying it shouldn't matter. I'm saying it shouldn't be weird for a girl to want to be like some boy or other when she grows up or vice versa.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I agree that the story is still about Neo, but Trinity is not some waifly little thing sitting at home waiting for the hero to come back. She is kicking ass right beside him as an equal partner - a concept unheard of say 30/40 years ago.

My point is that it will take someone like you to write the stories that are not scraps tossed, but solid real things. I agree, and I tried to point out, thhat things like Nancy Drew et all were scraps and poor ones at that.

It should not be that way, but in order for that to happen people have to do something - set examples, write the books - live the lives to change it.

What Im saying is I agree with you , and I feel that you are the voice that needs to get out there to make it so that it doesn't matter. Write stories that aren't scraps and half hearted attempts to make do.