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Hollywood has confirmed today that it is toying with the idea of working on some solid plot lines based around female characters, that don’t in anyway mirror previous films already made about men.
The engine room for Western Cinema has opened up about the internal conflict it is currently going through in regards to women on the big screen.
Leslie Iger, the spokesperson for Hollywood’s Diversity Unit explained that there has been some external and internal pressure to feature the non-men identifying characters a lot more prominently in the films.
“Yeah people seem to be pretty fixated on the disparity in roles and pay between genders in Hollywood,” Iger said.
“So we have decided it might be time to confront the issue.”
“There’s the productive way of doing things, and appealing to 50% of the world’s population with strong lead female characters, or there is the famous all-male movie remake model, which is commonly acknowledged as the laziest form of activism”
Iger explained, however, that the Hollywood powerbrokers that are not currently facing hard jail time for sex offences were torn between paying lip service to parity and just making female remakes of old movies that everyone really loved and get quite protective of, or whether we should try and script strong and interesting female characters drawn from either real or fictional stories.
“It’s definitely easier to just do the remake thing, same plot, same everything, just with less marketing and lower paid actors”
