SuaveSocialist said:
1. Because success is noteworthy, particularly when it manifests in new or historic ways. Rather than whinge about it like a salty hipster, I give it a nod and a thumb's up. 2. Because Ben Affleck would have made a horrible Wonder Woman, for starters. Gone are the Elizabethan days when females would have to pretend to be males in order to act on stage, and only a fringe audience wants to "Make Acting Great Again" by returning to those times. 3. I certainly wouldn't object if you consider Emma Watson to be fanservice. Or Gal Gadot, for that matter. Fanservice is whatever you want it to be and I won't take that away from you. 4. If by "it" you mean female lead, the odds are not in favor of Beau and the Beast bringing in the big box office bucks, no matter how much beefcake it might have. I don't know of any LGBT movie that managed to crack the Top 100, so having a male take the lead probably would not have been a wise decision. 5. I never said I liked them. Their box office performance is independent of any opinion I might have. It's as I've said: success is noteworthy, particularly when it manifests in new or historic ways. Female Leads have never RULED the Box Office before, but here we are. 6. Their box office performance. Not a single male-led movie managed to dethrone Beauty and the Beast this year. Domestically, male-led movies couldn't even crack the Top Three. |
So what you essiantly are saying is that it matters only for you because of your Left Liberal identity/ideology or what you perceive as it? Because you clearly dont mention any aspect why these movies are any better having female roles in it over other movies.
I mean i dont know a lot about movies but at least some aspects of Anime. And there is a lot of reasons people told me about why they prefer female leads over males and it wasnt just fanservice and some cute moe characters. Like the fact that female characters at least in Anime tend to be more psychologically complex especially during puberty, the fact that they are physically weaker than males is also and aspect that gives the film a stronger impact in the end (like if a single girl saves the world in a believable fashion).
You can see that for example in Hayao Miyazakis Anime films where almost everyone had a female lead in it and he was doing it since the 80s. Yet many people can point out why they do like his films for that.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/hayao-miyazaki-female-characters-part-one
