A portion of an i09 interview with Paul W. S. Anderson...
io9: How do you make a movie with so many female action stars in it, without going full Sucker Punch?
PA: Sucker Punch was a movie that said it was about female empowerment, but the way the characters were dressed and kind of treated in the film, wasn't [empowering]. I think the exact opposite is true with this movie. I truly do feel that this is an empowering movie for women.
It was very interesting, when we were promoting the first Resident Evil movie. We went all around the world, and when we got to Japan the audience was entirely women, most of it was teenage girls. The Japan premiere felt like you were at a Justin Bieber concert. What are all these teenage girls doing here? And it was because in Japan, Milla's character is seen as a female empowerment figure. She's regarded as this figure, and that's what we've always tried to do and to treat those female characters with a respect that they sometimes don't get in other franchises. These women, they kick ass, and they're sexy — but there's no way that you feel like they're being exploited by the film, or the film characters.
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io9: How do you make a movie with so many female action stars in it, without going full Sucker Punch?
PA: Sucker Punch was a movie that said it was about female empowerment, but the way the characters were dressed and kind of treated in the film, wasn't [empowering]. I think the exact opposite is true with this movie. I truly do feel that this is an empowering movie for women.
It was very interesting, when we were promoting the first Resident Evil movie. We went all around the world, and when we got to Japan the audience was entirely women, most of it was teenage girls. The Japan premiere felt like you were at a Justin Bieber concert. What are all these teenage girls doing here? And it was because in Japan, Milla's character is seen as a female empowerment figure. She's regarded as this figure, and that's what we've always tried to do and to treat those female characters with a respect that they sometimes don't get in other franchises. These women, they kick ass, and they're sexy — but there's no way that you feel like they're being exploited by the film, or the film characters.
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Yeah, Resident Evil was so pro-female empowerment with all that naked Milla being forced into every damn possible moment and sexy going above acting and writing.
Not like the original Resident Evil game where we had fully dressed female characters with personality and the ability to look like human beings.
Fuck off Anderson.
yeah, Anderson is full of shovel
But as much as I hate to admit it and no matter how mediocre the movies are, the films actually do help promote female-empowerment. The speaking female characters have a higher survival rate, they get to be the power players, and Alice and the other main game series female form a duo bond. You lose some, you win some.
Paul W. S. Anderson is Uwe Boll with a budget.
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This.
There is some obvious fanservice, but I appreciate how all around capable the women are, and generally speaking, the sexiness isn't being shoved down your throat. Nor does it actually try to prop itself up and sell itself as female empowerment like Sucker Punch did, on top of its failing.
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