“She’s an objectified icon … to me, it’s a step backwards.”
[Cameron] believes one of his popular protagonists, Sarah Connor from the Terminator franchise, sets a better example for female leading characters in movies.
“Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon. She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit,” he said. “And to me, [the benefit of characters like Sarah] is so obvious. I mean, half the audience is female!”
News.com.au James Cameron Slams Wonder Woman: “It’s a step backwards.”
Sorry, James Cameron, but you talk about objectified icons.
I am sure Sarah Connor is everything you say she was. Plus, I suspect, you’re talking about the second and subsequent Terminator movies, too, not the first.
I don’t know. I only ever watched the first movie. I couldn’t watch the rest.
It’s not because I didn’t like most of the movie. It was okay. And Arnie’s terminator is certainly iconic, and goes down in history as one of the great movie characters of all time.
But we spend the whole movie having the Terminator chase Sarah, only to find out that he’s after her because she’s somebody’s mother.
Sarah Connor is a victim.
Sure, she fights back. And I like it when a victim empowers her-or-himself to fight back against their oppressor. And I don’t mean to denigrate anyone who fights their way out of being victimised like that, for they are inspiring. Woman or man.
But if I want a hero—someone to hold up as an example, someone to emulate—I’ll take the woman who starts out with a conscience, and a determination to do right by the world. Someone who lives by that standard, and embodies it in everything they do and say.
Rather than someone who simply reacts to a situation they have been placed into.
So that I, and the Sarah Connor’s of this world, know we can live by those standards, too.
Wonder Woman is not about beauty. Hollywood objectifies everyone, male and female
Wonder Woman is encapsulated by the scene in No-Man’s land. Where a woman knows this is wrong, and says so, only to hear others say, “Sure, but we can’t do anything about it,” and she chooses to do something anyway.
