Remember the action movies we watched together in those years? From "Terminator" to "Men in Black", from "Superman" to "Ace Agent", from "007" to "Spider-Man", it makes our blood boil, but at the same time, we find that all heroes, without exception, are men.
These men can go from obscurity to completing the amazing counterattack and holding the beauty back, or they can bring their own protagonist halo to kill the Quartet as soon as they appear, and women exist as embellishments, or they are useless except for the big breasts and long legs. Either love bags, cosmetics, simple-minded behavior, vanity, or success is more than failure. The strongest is nothing but a female devil who wears tight leather pants and steps on ten-centimeter high heels to kill without blinking.
As the spoils of war for men to help justice and save the world, they are the embodiment of men's patience and wisdom, an obstacle that can be easily solved, and the embodiment of carnal desire to satisfy the countless hungry eyes in front of the screen.
In these action movies full of routines, "The Spy" has become a clear stream in the action movie that you know the ending after watching it. The North American box office exceeded 30 million US dollars in the first weekend of its release, and it also conveyed such a message to the audience, for those who are tired of the old routine, we've seen enough.
The beginning of the film is no different from a traditional agent action movie. A personable and charismatic male agent goes straight to the enemy's lair after a fight to ask the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb to save the peace-loving human beings all over the world. In his earphones is a fat, ugly, and careful female partner.
In traditional comedy movies, such female partners will become the distribution center for jokes, using their own ugliness and clumsiness to set off the male protagonist's strategizing.
However, this is not a movie that plays cards according to the routine. The mission failed. With a sneeze from the male protagonist, the pistol went off without a trace, killing the only villain BOSS who knew the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb. However, the chubby female partner did not show the clumsiness that she should have. While comforting the male protagonist, she directed the operation to continue and even controlled the drone to save the male protagonist's life at a critical moment.
Adhering to the persistence of this anti-routine to the end, the men who appeared one after another unexpectedly became a joke, as well as a foil and a stumbling block for female spies.
They are average males who are responsible for acting handsome and waiting for the heroine to save them. The male No. 2, who runs the train with his mouth full, blows his cows to the sky, and has more than enough success,NHe is the male No. 3 who uses his lower body to think from his appearance to the moment of life and death at the end of the film.
If there is no heroine, the first male and second male in the movie will die countless times. This kind of setting and arrangement is indeed very pleasing to the screen women who have been rescued for a whole century. Although the director did not completely give up the ridicule of the heroine's dress and lack of charm, such ridicule has also become a debate on whether the film is feminist.
But is it true or not?
Although more than half of today's movie audiences are women, the female image on the screen is still unavoidable. Because of the limited ability, the dream can only be realized by the male protagonist in the end.
It is always difficult to see other shining points in the heroines in the movie, aside from being kind and beautiful, which need to be saved and cared for.Such a stereotyped image has been difficult to break since the day the movie was born. And "Female Spy" does the opposite. She subverts the traditional image of a female spy with a big chest and a thin waist, and subverts the traditional image of a fat and round woman, and does not use clumsiness to please the audience. Although she still lacks charm, she has flesh and blood and desires. Her existence is no longer to set off someone, please someone, and no longer to be guided and led.
After continuing to resolve a series of crises and saving the world, we finally see something that the heroines in previous action movies have never had—wisdom.
Yes, she exists not because of beauty or kindness, but because of real desire and wisdom.
Her existence is not for attachment, she exists to conquer the sea of stars.
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