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Salt
2010 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Phillip Noyce
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. She goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"
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> Salt, Black Widow, Lucy,
Salt was not that good (backpedaling from trash -- it wasn't that bad), but the lead was for a man, if that contributes to the conversation...
Lucy was trash, and I wont relent from that without hard evidence.
Not because of the cast or other movie related things, but because it would have been better as a sentence.
>This entire "zomg bad film + female character = woke mind virus!!11" is just silly.
Nobody is saying this. (Strong) Female main characters have been in many successful movies and video games before and nobody bat an eye, quite the contrary, they loved them: Sarah Connor - Terminator, Trinity - Matrix, Ripley - Aliens, Lara Croft - Tomb Raider, Blood Rayne, Salt, Black Widow, Lucy, Charlie's Angles, etc, I could go on and on, and I'm no movie/video games enthusiast to know all movies with female leads.
The big difference is that those females were always written as the main characters in their own stories from the start, whereas what Disney is doing, along with Gemini and other woke corporations, is they try to replace established male characters of beloved IPs with female leads in the worst way possible, by disrespecting the original character that made the franchise popular and shoehorning a fake Strong Girl Boss™ stereotype with no personality and no character arc in his place, and then when the movie inevitably flops they blame the CIS white male audience for being incels "unable to handle strong females".
Do you think people would go to see James Bond or Top Gun Maverick if they replaced the male lead with some female actress that's trendy right now? Or would they see Tomb Raider if they replaced Lara Croft with Tom Holland? You can try for diversity's sake of course, but the audience and bean counters might stop you.
As a former Sony fanboy, Sony Electronics makes the systemic mistake of completely forgetting the customer the moment the hardware is sold (as contrasted with Apple, providing ongoing quality services that encourage more hardware purchases).
My last straw was buying a Blu-ray player that claimed glorious high quality video and lots of apps/software/content: with anticipation I had it play the included trailer for then-coming-soon movie "Salt", expecting the very best of my then-new 1080p system ... and was dismayed by a horribly grainy 320x240 video. Sony Electronics didn't give a ---- about content, even though the whole point of buying the products was experiencing content.
Anyone watched the movie, Salt?
Dominated - Have a commanding position over.
No one said they do not exist.
Salt is rated PG-13 Aliens while rated R is 37 years old.
I dont understand the point you are trying to make?
How many movies have you seen, where men beat up women? How many movie shave you seen, where women beat up men?
As long as society has asymmetric views on gender you will never have equality of roles in movies.
"Action movies for example are incredibly male dominated and also very popular, until the general public is OK with seeing women getting beaten, killed and abused I don't see this ever changing."
Angelina Jolie has made several action movies where she gets banged up quite a bit. (Salt was originally designed for Tom Cruise; Jolie was a big improvement.) So has Scarlett Johansson (who, as Black Widow, ought to have an origin movie but isn't getting one.) Sigourney Weaver also had some tough times in her action movies. All of those were successful films.
Is your claim that there is zero correlation between violence and culturally constructed notions of masculinity? Or that there is no relationship between guns and cultural notions of masculinity?
Because both of those things seem obviously wrong to me. For example, I love "guy movies" with guns and explosions and macho nonsense. But it is enormously gendered. Take the movie Salt, where Angelina Jolie played the sort of role typically reserved for guys. There was enormous discussion about having a woman in a role like that. The script was substantially reworked because a woman took the title role. Neither would have happened if this stuff weren't heavily gendered.
Also, psychosis is very serious, but are you really asserting that all mass shooters were experiencing psychotic breaks at the time of their actions? I've only seen a couple of psychotic breaks up close, but those poor people hardly seemed capable of planning the purchase of a happy meal, let alone making and and carrying out a carefully crafted, months-long plan to murder a bunch of people.
Agreed. As a former Sony fanboy, I've noted that the hardware is very good/innovative - insofar as it is exactly what it claims and no more. The software has driven me away. A representative anecdote: my Sony Bluray player, a flagship device, is smothered in irritations...the Netflix software is hideous compared to AppleTV, network operations end with me having to positively acknowledge every success ("Update complete, select OK" - well duh, just move on to what I obviously want to do without waiting for me!), the "Play" button just doesn't (on a movie menu, have to go find the remote and hit the Select button instead of just pressing Play on the player), the demo apps/"channels" are awful (the promotion of movie "Salt" tried to be oh-wow with...cheezy webcam resolution on a 1080p display? WTF?), and just one little grating doesn't-just-work after another. I've gone thru this "95% is great but 5% destroys the experience" with at least a dozen devices...ya know, I'm just not going to buy Sony stuff any more, mostly because of "last inch" software.
As a longtime fanatic and now dismayed ex-user of Sony products, I'm startled at what all the analysis missed: the last 10% of the user interface. What we need is completion of the work done right with followup; what we get is "oh crap, ship it and forget it".
A simplistic example: my Sony BluRay player, upon completing any network activity, announces that it has completed the network activity. I don't want to acknowledge that, I want to get on with what I'm obviously going to do next. The same player features streaming video services which, next to Apple TV, look like some techie was told to slap on; the worst offender being the promotion app for "Salt" (movie premiering about the same time as the device) delivers what should be premium video quality in the worst ugliest over compressed dreck form.
Time and again it seems they take an otherwise fantastic product, and to meet a deadline slap together what's missing, shove it out the door, and never show any interest in supporting it thereafter.
Actually it is different. Using your analogy the actor is the programmer. Most of the time in Hollywood the actor matters more than the product. Also as an actor you are trying to get a part in someone else's product. So you need to be where the product owner is.
As a programmer, you own the product. Noone needs to know you, and you product could be very famous without anyone knowing you.
As an example take the movie SALT. It is quite famous. I know the actors. I do not know the name of the producer or writer. That would be the programmer.
My point is, programmers do not need SV as much as actors need HW. Programmers are writers, and producers. You can produce a movie in your basement, and distribute it on Youtube for free. If enough people like it, you can get funding to do a more polished, cinematic version of it.
I am shocked, shocked that piracy is not driven by music connoisseurs and film buffs eager to bring the artistic and cinematic masterworks of our times like Baby and Salt to poor wretches who can barely afford their $60 a month broadband and $500 computers to say nothing of their $0.99 music downloads.