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LurkerJ on 16 July 2016
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Wright said:
LurkerJ said:

I am a huge Silent Hill fan and I had no problems with the lead being a female when they decided to turn the games into a movie. I wasn't trying to be progressive back then, I just didn't care. I absolutely loathed the movie though, for many reasons. Not having a male lead wasn't one of them.

 

Azuren said:

4. Silent Hill had reason: a mother figure looking for her child works better than a father figure. That's a legitimate reason to change the gender of a character.

 

Completely off-topic here, but I disagree with these two statements. First of all, there shouldn't have been any problem of a Silent Hill movie having a female protagonist because a) there had been already a mainline Silent Hill with a female protagonist, and b) the movie isn't the story of the first game. It's a mesh of several Silent Hill concepts which actually includes a parent looking for his children, like the plot of SH1.

Second, I don't think a mother figure works better. If the character is presented as protective, and caring, it really doesn't matter the genre of the character nor the audience can emphatize more with it. While the movie doesn't follow closely the plot of the game, it doesn't really mader because no gender was changed at all, just a female lead was picked.

I did say it did NOT matter to me what the gender was, even if the movie was completley based on the first game, which as it turned out, it wasn't.I thoguht it was before seeing it though, and I had no problems with "gender swapping".

I was NOT trying to be progressive. I was just ok with it. I am NOT being progressive now when I say it's ok for GB: the reboot to have an all female cast either.