I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the absurdity of viewing female-led films as risky despite women being a significant portion of moviegoers.
Nina Jacobson emphasizes the illogical perception that female protagonists in movies are a risk. With women constituting more than half of the population and actively participating as audiences, it questions the rationale behind such beliefs in the film industry and calls for a shift in perspective regarding storytelling and representation.
In practice
During a panel discussion on representation in Hollywood.
The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.
'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.
Having been in some roles that really resonated with women, I became hyper-aware of how women are represented in Hollywood.
I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
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