THE MOVIES!

Sabertooth: when you’ve outgrown and evolved past the cougar stage and boy-toys...

Let’s talk about how ‘the movies’ portray older [s h u d d e r] women….

They generally portray women over 45 as demure and easily shocked.

Then when a woman really gets old [Jessica Tandy], there are parts for them again; sometimes even good parts. But face it, not many.

Of course there are exceptions, Dame Judy Dench, Helen Mirren for example. Oh, and Glenn Close (in Damages). Meryl Streep made movies about older women in a sexual situations (It’s Complicated and Mamma Mia), and I applaud her! 

But! What about Sharon Stone, Sigourney Weaver and Goldie Hawn? All beautiful, funny, and great actors, but I don’t see them burning up the screen anymore. They committed the unforgiveable sin of ‘aging’ [blood curdling scream]!

Let’s talk about Hollywood’s bias towards dirty old men, dating young girls/women, and against women over 50 [it’s really more like 40, but I won’t quibble]. Just for fun, let’s examine some specifics of some asinine dialogue. There are more, but this one really irked me when I saw it.

FLASHDANCE

When meeting her ‘friends’ ex-wife Jessica Beal says, “As a matter of fact... l fucked his brains out,”  to which his ex replies, “Obviously, you did. Charmed, dear.”

Much too gracious for the encounter. The ex-wife seemed embarrassed, excuses herself and slinks away.

She should have laughed and said, “Oh, baby girl… That was accomplished years ago!” Then blew him a kiss and walked away slowly, laughing and shaking her head.

First, the character had no valid reason to be so damned crude, rude and snarky to a woman she didn’t even know. Actually, there was nothing to remotely like about that Beal character, except the dance number with the whole water thing— very cool.

Secondly, her would-be boyfriend was a total dork. Enough said.

Let’s see…

Young, pretty witches are always good, and the old, ugly crones are almost always bad. I’d love to see a sweet attractive old crone and a mean, bitchy young witch. No one would believe it, huh? No, wait—

PRACTICAL MAGIC

with Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest. They, and that movie are the exception, and that’s the ONLY example I can come up with, and I’ve tried. Of course, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman were equally brilliant.

We will remain, 'fair and balanced' even if FOX isn't.

Peace!