So men don’t like the "Sex and the City" movie? is that any surprise at all? a movie where women are fully empowered!!. Where even the ones that still wait or look for their knight in shining Armour, are still living full lives and don’t just sit at home to wait for the wonderful great prince that will come to rescue them and make them happy for ever and ever……. WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED THEY ARE NOT DIGGING IT???
Were you aware that this movie is the highest-grossing debut ever for a movie starring women?
Ramin Setoodeh writes a nice analysis on the Newsweek magazine of June 16th, 2008. Were you aware that the studios felt this movie would fail because mostly women would go to see it? women don’t usually carry movie blockbusters on their shoulders. What they don’t realize is that their category of "chick movie" no longer cuts it with lots of us. We want the chick factor!! but we need them to add the empowerment ingredient. We are just no longer just going for the "damsel in distress" identity…..
I am really hoping that the success of this movie, will help the studio heads realize (mostly white men) that life has changed. We women want different things than our mothers did. And we are no longer just looking for the love story built on a man’s terms. We want the love story built on our terms. And isn’t that what "Sex and the City" did for us? everyone got what they wanted… on their terms!! you’ve got to love it if you are a woman… gotta hate it if you are a man… your control is no longer there…
See the whole article here…. http://www.newsweek.com/id/139889
Filed under: Why am I not surprised?
