Movies | July 21, 2010 | 10 comments

Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/12/twilight-eclipse-feminism

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For the last couple of decades, women have been treated as second-class filmgoers. The plexes have been dominated by explosions, chases, slashings, Superheroics, gross-out gags and other delights tailored to the tastes of the adolescent male and his overgrown counterpart. Now, the tables have been turned by a single franchise.

The Twilight films don't just attract audiences that are 80% female. They give vent to passions so exclusively girlish that their intensity baffles mere males. Yet on its first night out, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ensconced itself in more American cinemas than any other film has ever managed to. The $68m (£45m) it took in the process made it the biggest Wednesday opener of all time. This also made it the most successful opener on any day of the week, apart from just one other film. That happened to be The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

In the cinemas, then, a great triumph for women is clearly being won. Just how much good it's doing them is more doubtful. The spell that Twilight casts over Twihard poppets and even their full-grown Twimoms cannot be assumed to be entirely benign.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/12/twilight-eclipse-feminism
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10 comments // Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism

  • div
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      div  

    • It's sad... when I was in high school, I got the Lord of the Rings. Now, years later, teenagers get Twilight.

      We surely are regressing.

    • 1 year ago
  • estee_arie
  • remanns
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • Hopefully this " feminism" will manage to graduate from high school soon,...go to college,....or just get a job. ( and a life )

    • 1 year ago
  • Rowsell
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      Rowsell  

    • its shit - there is nothign to it. its certainly not in any way feminist - and the absence of violence (if it could claim that) would not make it so. Women crave bloodshed more than men in my experience, anyone who has been in a town in Northern England on a friday night can testify to that

    • 1 year ago
  • CarolineS
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  • OrbViper
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      OrbViper  

    • I just thought it was a pretty crap film...then again, guess I may not be in that '80%' target audience.

      But if this is going to move onto feminism, then we have to see that it is how genders are built for each sex, and that this is just catering for one of those already built genders. I think the debate should move onto whether it is these genders that we have that are good for our society and equality...rather than just focus on the surface symptoms.

    • 1 year ago
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