Fair enough...and true. But the 'whodunit' movies always show [e.g.] the 'guy's' feet at the beginning while he's laughing and such; cuts the possibilities down to 50% don't you think?
TANGENT: Btw, your sig...Aphex Twin kicks a$$!! Just watched him in Ireland.
Along Came a Spider was obvious to me because of the spider part of the title. For some reason I have always thought Spider = Female aspects in metaphor.
Scream 2 had a woman killer at the end. Men's style shoes/boots used in parts where she was the killer, easy enough for a woman to wear such style shoes.
I'm sorry, but for my sanity's sake, I'm going to have to ignore any of the 'Scream' series!
That's EXACTLY one of the things that baffles me. They almost always have size 12 Doc.'s. Sure...could be a woman, but almost never is.
'Se7en' [one of the better suspense/thrillers out there imo], and they KEPT REFERRING TO THE CRIMINAL as a male; right from the beginning.
Another thing: who has had the least screen time...probably the criminal. [POSSIBLE SPOILER] I was watching that recent Casey Affleck movie, 'Gone Baby Gone' or something. My partner smiled about 50 minutes into it and she said, 'Who haven't they shown forever?' And sure enough...it was Morgan Freeman.[END SPOILER]
I can't even think of another one with a woman as blah blah...
Sorry about that...haven't really done much...'spoilering'.
I'll just test it here:
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: test*$, test*$ 1,2,3
Merde! It worked. I was hoping you were wrong or something. Sorry about that, and thank you for that.
Gooood movie. Forgot about that one. Thought it was a bit slow at parts, but gooood movie. But notice how it wasn't exactly main stream in N.America; or even here for that matter.
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I don't think Inside has even been released here in the UK in any form except festivals, that's why I got the Region 1 uncut, would have got the French edition, has a better cover and 2 discs, but no subtitles apparently.
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Re: Suspense movies: How many times have you watched it end up being a bad GAL?
Most popular is Pamela Voorhees. Then there is May from the film of the same name...and of course Audition.
There are quite a lot. In most Giallo films occasionally the murderer is a female. Such as the case with one of Dario Argento's film (which shall remain secret to avoid spoiling the plot and the ending)
There are three types of female criminals:
The B-i-t-c-h.
The Seductress.
The Geeky.
Rarely do you see the Air head getting the criminal part....except in a Porn film.
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Re: Re: Suspense movies: How many times have you watched it end up being a bad GAL?
Gotta check it out...heard of it though [I believe!]
I'm quite sure I know which one you're referring to. But do you notice that most, not all 20-year-olds, but many (Lord, that was a while back) just watching a good suspense flick like [SPOILER - highlight to read]: The Usual Suspects are going to figure out it's a guy half-way through. They don't really want to dig into the bucket or look outside Hollywood to find brain-pounding movies like the ones we're mentioning. And I would think the scriptwriters would have to do little to remove, or at least cover up the possible giveaways. That brings me to the point about scriptwriters and scripts based on books etc., but in a bit...
True...but one of few that came 'to a theater near you'!
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I just mean that it's quite mainstream. Although there's NOTHING wrong with that, my point being that how many main stream [ref:my silly quote] movies end up with the same type of end result i.e. female?
Okay, movies like [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Fight Club and Sixth Sense...you just end up with your jaw-dropping at the end because in both, the 'narrative' and story lead to an incident involving males. Fine, but...what about movies like 'Matchstick Men'?
Isn't it pretty obvious whether the antagonist is male/female just from the attitudes a third of the way in? Why make it so obvious?
I just think obvious things can be done to confuse the viewers. I'll tell you what. How about you think of a movie you figured out where the antagonist was a male [spoilers obviously huh MildPossession? ] and suggest how easily they could have made it more effective.
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Aug 13th, 2008 09:44 AM
Sorry about that, and thank you for that.
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