Femmes in the Fridge@FemmesinFridges

Well, fuck. Motherfucking....wow.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 18:56:54

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 18:56:54

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That was...that was the most beautiful gosh darn thing I've ever seen.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 18:57:56

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 18:57:56

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There were so many ways Abrams could have taken the easy way out to appease the Hollywood old school, but he just...didn't.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:07:42

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:07:42

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It looked like reality. How rare is that, a film where even the extras resemble the human race as a whole?

Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:08:39

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:08:39

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I...I was not expecting to live to see a feminist Star Wars. Amazing.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:10:12

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 19:10:12

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So the choices made in Star Wars that make it EXCEPTIONAL weren't just casting.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:14:21

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:14:21

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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'

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:16:39

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:16:39

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Generic things, things in this film and not in this film, like love interests, using tropes, callbacks to other films, plot design, etc.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:17:51

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:17:51

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Every step of Hollywood's systems default to what they consider the proven & familiar, and every deviation from that requires a choice.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:19:03

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:20:12

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:20:12

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:21:22

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:21:22

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And I am POSITIVE that the people who handle Marketing and Focus Testing were NOT cooperative w/ the way Star Wars went.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:22:36

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:22:36

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Star Wars breaks every one of their stupid, dinosaur-ancient rules, and its no mistake it took JJ Abrams, god of the nerds, and

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:24:29

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:25:18

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:25:18

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The amount of resistance must have been STAGGERING. The care &thought Abrams & the army of ppl involved put into doing it right is WONDERFUL

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:26:07

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:26:07

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:27:15

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:27:15

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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

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:28:04

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:28:04

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A director just kicked the door down. A director PROVED the $ is there, the audience is THERE.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:29:58

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:29:58

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:31:23

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:31:23

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:32:52

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:32:52

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:32:52

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:32:52

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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

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:34:15

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:34:15

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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.

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:36:12

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— Femmes in the Fridge (@FemmesinFridges)Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:36:12

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HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT!? (okay, done now, I promise)

Sun, Dec 20 2015 20:36:34

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