IkePoR said:
Azuren said:
Oh, wow, there seems to be a lot of people confused about, despite being a reboot of a franchise based on fictional events, a gender swap of the whole cast should be "explained".
Regardless of what progressive-minded people would like to think, we automatically [subconsciously] relate to the characters of movies. More often than not, white males will identify with white males, Black females with black females, etc.
So when you take a franchise that was about three white guys and a black guy getting into ghostly shenanigans and gender swap them, you inherently change who the movie is targeted at. If the original movies had some female leads, it wouldn't have been an issue because they would be swapped to male leads. But there wasn't.
You can't just decide "Hey, lets gender swap a 1980's movie into a reboot", because you can easily end up with alienate many of the people who are original fans by no longer giving them a character to relate to. All the boys who grew up living GB1&2 now have to decide if they're willing to invest themselves in a movie that they will likely be unable to find a relatable character in. Yes, it's great that girls can find one now, but simply diversifying the cast would have allowed everyone an identifiable character. Instead, they gender swapped an all male cast into "Ghostbusters: Bridesmaids". |
I'd like to add that every male in the film is either an idiot, comicly evil or cowardly. It would be fine if the movie just had a girl as the main character and didn't make it a thing - like The Force Awakens for example. Instead this movie seems like it's directors were on a mission to trivialize males to further emphasize "the strong female lead".
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They didn't really make it a "thing".
In the Ghostbusters movies generally every other non-Ghostbuster character is an idiot, because the theme of the movies (all of them) in one way or another is that the Ghostbusters are the only ones that know what they're talking about. It's the "us against the world" theme.
Look at the '84 Ghostbusters, Walter Peck (the EPA guy) is an idiot, the mayor is an idiot, the guy in charge of the fancy hotel they catch Slimer at is an idiot, Louis is a (lovable) idiot, etc. etc.
There's one specific gag that makes note of the girls being well ... girls and it's a one off line that's pretty funny actually and that's it.
Otherwise the movie is just about a group of ... Ghostbusters.
