hmmm, movies again

From Bridesmaids Sparks a Genre...

" Geena Davis, the actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media, told TheWrap that after the release of her “Thelma and Louise” 20 years ago, “the press was predicting, ‘Oh my God, this proves a movie designed to appeal to women can be successful. A female road movie can be successful. This proves that a female buddy movie can be successful … This is surely going to launch a whole wave of these kinds of movies. And there were none. There were none, none, none.”

After that, Davis starred in the very successful “A League of Their Own,” about an all-female baseball team.

Its success, she said, was accompanied by the same talk: “We’re going to see so many other female sports movies. And there none until ‘Bend it Like Beckham.’ So that didn’t happen.”

But she congratulated Wiig and noted that only about 13 percent of screenwriters are women.

“Any time women can be portrayed doing something other than what they are usually doing in movies – which is a lot of times being a love object or being decorative rather than a fully realized character, that’s great,” she said."