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The Hot Button by David Poland

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“We coulda been a contenda!” If Kara Zor-El been a reluctant 20something Supergirl and the movie had not turned a teenage girl without superpowers into a distracting sidekick… it would have been enough for us. If Kara was driven from self-abuse to unironic heroics in the course of trying to save the life of her beloved Krypto and the filmmakers solved the puzzle of the ebb and flow of her powers instead of repeatedly getting caught up in gimmick events… it would have been enough for us.
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There aren’t enough women getting enough opportunity to make movies. I get that, but it’s not what I want to discuss here today. As I was watching Toy Story 5 and realizing that the movie is not really about Woody and Buzz, but about Jessie (vs a female representation of tech), it occurred to me that since the run of Bob Chapek utterly fucking up Disney’s animation business (with support from COVID), we have seen a serious turn towards women being leaders at the box office in a serious way.
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