Re: [Frameworks] Movies w/girls fighting

From: Shelly Silver <silvernyc_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:42:23 -0500

thanks all! these suggestions are all great (ea in their own way)

best,
shelly


On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote:

> I beleive there's one of adolescents fighting in Thirteen
>
> For adult women: there's a long comic tradition in classic Hollywood
> films of "catfights" which are almost always for amusement of male
> onlookers; you could track them down with IMDb's keyword feature.
>
> A classic example: Dance GIrl Dance (d. Dorothy Arzner)
>
> A recent interation: Bandidas with Salma Heyek and Penelope Cruz
>
> For women fighting (often with women) there's a very substantial
> Asian lineage of warrior women.
>
> Perhaps the best example of that would be Heroic Trio (Vastly
> superior to Crouching Tiger, IMHO)
>
> There are many recent articles and even books on the Warrior Woman
> ripe, easily researched with a Google search
>
> Many women in prison films have such sequences.
>
>
> Chuck Kleinhans
>
>
>
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