{"id":14649,"date":"2012-03-08T23:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T23:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2012-03-09T01:32:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T01:32:43","slug":"women-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/03\/08\/women-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Women on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Women-in-Film-on-International-Womens-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14655\" title=\"Women in Film on International Women's Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Women-in-Film-on-International-Womens-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/strong> today (Thursday 8th March), so here&#8217;s some of my favourite examples of inspiring female movie characters ranging from silent pioneers to animated superheroes.<\/p>\n<p>This PBS special on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Pickford\">Mary Pickford<\/a><\/strong> shows how she became one of the biggest stars of the silent era before being one of the founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Artists\">United Artists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10vEO6ByQ18\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Several generations of female icons in one scene: Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Anne Baxter in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0042192\/\">All About Eve<\/a><\/strong> (1950):<\/p>\n<div class=\"movieclips-player\" style=\"background: #000; margin: 0; padding: 7px 0; width: 560px; -moz-border-radius: 7px; -webkit-border-radius: 7px; border-radius: 7px;\">\n<p><object style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=ARW8T\" \/><embed style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=ARW8T\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 7px 0 0; padding: 0; width: 560px; height: 27px; text-align: center; font: normal 11px\/11px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; color: #666;\"><a style=\"display: inline; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.23em; color: #00aeff; text-decoration: none; background: #000;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/ARW8T-all-about-eve-movie-fasten-your-seatbelts\/\"><br \/>\nFasten Your Seatbelts<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A strikingly different kind of performance was given by <a title=\"Bibi Andersson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bibi_Andersson\">Bibi Andersson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Liv Ullmann\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liv_Ullmann\">Liv Ullmann<\/a>\u00a0in Ingmar Bergman&#8217;s classic <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060827\/\">Persona<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1966).<\/p>\n<div class=\"movieclips-player\" style=\"background: #000; margin: 0; padding: 7px 0; width: 560px; -moz-border-radius: 7px; -webkit-border-radius: 7px; border-radius: 7px;\">\n<p><object style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=u9WQ\" \/><embed style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=u9WQ\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 7px 0 0; padding: 0; width: 560px; height: 27px; text-align: center; font: normal 11px\/11px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; color: #666;\"><a style=\"display: inline; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.23em; color: #00aeff; text-decoration: none; background: #000;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/u9WQ-persona-movie-a-real-fear-of-death\/\"><br \/>\nA Real Fear of Death<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A few years later, Bergman would a film about the relationship between three sisters, played by\u00a0<a title=\"Harriet Andersson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harriet_Andersson\">Harriet Andersson<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Kari Sylwan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kari_Sylwan\">Kari Sylwan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Ingrid Thulin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingrid_Thulin\">Ingrid Thulin<\/a>, in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069467\/\">Cries and Whispers<\/a><\/strong> (1973).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Pw7FYex5pQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ripley&#8217;s last stand in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078748\/\">Alien<\/a><\/strong> (1979) was not just a key scene for Sigourney Weaver but showed that female characters could survive without the \u00a0help of men (interestingly the ship&#8217;s computer is called Mother):<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"background: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/e\/kTiRb\/0\/132.31\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><embed style=\"background: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/e\/kTiRb\/0\/132.31\" FlashVars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0; padding: 1px 0 0 0; width: 560px; height: 27px; background: #000000; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; text-align: center; line-height: 11px;\"><a style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; color: #00aeff; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/kTiRb-alien-movie-ripleys-last-stand\/\">Ripley&#8217;s Last Stand<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/vNHzw-alien-movie-videos\/\">Alien<\/a> <a style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/\">at MOVIECLIPS.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Obsession isn&#8217;t always a bad thing in a young journalist&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"background: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/e\/y89Sc\/48.7\/127.8\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><embed style=\"background: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/e\/y89Sc\/48.7\/127.8\" FlashVars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0; padding: 1px 0 0 0; width: 560px; height: 27px; background: #000000; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; text-align: center; line-height: 11px;\"><a style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; color: #00aeff; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/y89Sc-broadcast-news-movie-future-news-people\/\">Future News People<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/dSB4D-broadcast-news-movie-videos\/\">Broadcast News<\/a> <a style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/\">at MOVIECLIPS.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;especially if they grow up to be TV producers like Holly Hunter&#8217;s character in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092699\/\">Broadcast News<\/a><\/strong> (1987):<\/p>\n<div class=\"movieclips-player\" style=\"background: #000; margin: 0; padding: 7px 0; width: 560px; -moz-border-radius: 7px; -webkit-border-radius: 7px; border-radius: 7px;\"><object style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=74V3\" \/><embed style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=74V3\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the moving scene of female friendship in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092603\/\">Babette&#8217;s Feast<\/a><\/strong> (1987) and cooking for a real reason &#8211; not just because men want their food on the table:<\/p>\n<div class=\"movieclips-player\" style=\"background: #000; margin: 0; padding: 7px 0; width: 560px; -moz-border-radius: 7px; -webkit-border-radius: 7px; border-radius: 7px;\"><object style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=d4kV\" \/><embed style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=d4kV\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Anyone who has put up with sexist &#8216;banter&#8217; in the workplace will appreciate this scene from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096463\/\">Working Girl<\/a><\/strong> (1988) as Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) gets revenge on her boss (Oliver Platt) who has tricked her into a date with his boorish colleague (Kevin Spacey):<\/p>\n<div class=\"movieclips-player\" style=\"background: #000; margin: 0; padding: 7px 0; width: 560px; -moz-border-radius: 7px; -webkit-border-radius: 7px; border-radius: 7px;\">\n<p><object style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=5ic7\" \/><embed style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=5ic7\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin: 7px 0 0; padding: 0; width: 560px; height: 27px; text-align: center; font: normal 11px\/11px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; color: #666;\"><a style=\"display: inline; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.23em; color: #00aeff; text-decoration: none; background: #000;\" href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/5ic7-working-girl-movie-a-sleazoid-pimp\/\"><br \/>\nA Sleazoid Pimp<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concerned about Hollywood&#8217;s reluctance to create female superheroes?<\/p>\n<p>Pixar and director Brad Bird did their bit with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317705\/\">The Incredibles<\/a><\/strong> (2004):<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"background: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/e\/aPnfD\/0\/40.57\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><embed style=\"background: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"354\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/e\/aPnfD\/0\/40.57\" FlashVars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0; padding: 1px 0 0 0; width: 560px; height: 27px; background: #000000; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 4px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 4px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; text-align: center; line-height: 11px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Any others you want to add?<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/XtvP-female-performances-editors-choice-videos\">More female performances at Movie Clips<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/tZX3L8NUM-4\/\">IMDb list of female icons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some movie clips of female movie characters to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day, ranging from silent pioneers to animated superheroes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[1863,2474,2470,2471,2472,2473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}