- Well, fuck. Motherfucking....wow.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678650299590901760
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 18:56:54 - That was...that was the most beautiful gosh darn thing I've ever seen.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678650557821665281
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 18:57:56 - There were so many ways Abrams could have taken the easy way out to appease the Hollywood old school, but he just...didn't.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678653015797043200
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:07:42 - It looked like reality. How rare is that, a film where even the extras resemble the human race as a whole?
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678653255346315264
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:08:39 - I...I was not expecting to live to see a feminist Star Wars. Amazing.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678653646398078976
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:10:12 - So the choices made in Star Wars that make it EXCEPTIONAL weren't just casting.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678669789284270080
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:14:21 - Every step in Star Wars was a choice, and the reason so many Hollywood films SUCK is that every step has pressure to conform to the 'norm'
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678670368635092992
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:16:39 - Generic things, things in this film and not in this film, like love interests, using tropes, callbacks to other films, plot design, etc.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678670671849754624
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:17:51 - Every step of Hollywood's systems default to what they consider the proven & familiar, and every deviation from that requires a choice.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678670970429685762
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:19:03 - Star Wars has a TON of tiny deviations from the norm, from choreography appropriate to body type to choosing which chair each extra was in.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678671261677948928
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:20:12 - And I GUARANTEE you that EVERY one of them had someone who had to be course corrected back to depicting actual, diverse humanity now & then.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678671555707011072
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:21:22 - And I am POSITIVE that the people who handle Marketing and Focus Testing were NOT cooperative w/ the way Star Wars went.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678671866534363136
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:22:36 - Star Wars breaks every one of their stupid, dinosaur-ancient rules, and its no mistake it took JJ Abrams, god of the nerds, and
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678672340209700864
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:24:29 - a film that was 1000% certain to pull in all the money on earth no matter what(bc Star Wars), to make a diverse, feminist SciFi blockbuster.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678672546149994496
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:25:18 - The amount of resistance must have been STAGGERING. The care &thought Abrams & the army of ppl involved put into doing it right is WONDERFUL
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678672752048340992
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:26:07 - But the key here is that every director, every author, every creator and every artist no longer has an excuse to take the easy way out.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678673035696586753
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:27:15 - You don't get to say that there isn't an audience, or you can't talk your boss into it, or that you tried to do it right and it was too hard
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678673241431379968
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:28:04 - A director just kicked the door down. A director PROVED the $ is there, the audience is THERE.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678673721251401728
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:29:58 - Star Wars & Fury Road are proof of concept. They were gifts, ppl who in no way HAD to do the right thing choosing to, so WE can do anything.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678674076974514176
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:31:23 - Seriously. Star Wars will easily be the top grossing film, and one day trilogy, of all time for the foreseeable future. Its a battering ram.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678674450913427457
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:32:52 - Seriously. Star Wars will easily be the top grossing film, and one day trilogy, of all time for the foreseeable future. Its a battering ram.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678674450913427457
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:32:52 - Star Wars is a battering ram to knock in the doors of old, white, male institutions that've been obstructing entertainment for 60+ years now
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678674798600257536
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:34:15 - It was gonna happen some day, that proof of concept for depicting reality instead of white-dude-land, but I'll be darned; it happened NOW.
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678675287278620676
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:36:12 - HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT!? (okay, done now, I promise)
https://twitter.com/FemmesinFridges/status/678675380610330624
— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:36:34 - And have a bonus question that I found interesting, and my attempt to answer
