“And when you get into the sociology with status, everyone wants to identify up, to aspire up,” she says. This makes it harder for them to relate to women characters, so studios make fewer movies starring female protagonists, perpetuating the cycle.
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With thousands of male protagonists on TV and in movies, men have never been forced to do the same. But DeConnick also points out that women have been trained from a young age to cross-identify with male characters simply because of the dearth of strong female protagonists in our culture. It’s entirely possible that no one saw these movies because they were terrible ( Catwoman scores 9% on Rotten Tomatoes and Elektra scores 10%). Naysayers cited flops like Catwoman and Elektra to back up this claim. Until recent years, the accepted wisdom has been that young men (the target audience for these superhero films) will not watch movies with a female protagonist. Seems simple, but in the long history of superhero franchises, audiences have seen a lot of sexy lamps.
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Plus it can’t hurt that the company’s name is in her title. Marvel Studios has yet to announce whether Danvers will appear in either of these series, but it’s safe to assume that tapping someone connected to both universes wasn’t a mistake.
In the comics, she’s a member of the Avengers and works closely with the Guardians of the Galaxy. In fact, Danvers may prove to be a lynchpin in the Marvel universe. And she fits nicely in the universe of cocky, wisecracking heroes that we’ve seen since the first Iron Man movie: She’s a control freak with a big ego and a quick temper. The former Air Force pilot - who DeConnick says is meant to have the swagger of record-setting pilot Chuck Yeager - can fly and shoot beams out of her hands. She responded by tweeting, “Did not see this coming.” And if the movies stay true to the comic books, the fighter pilot with half-alien DNA and a passing resemblance to Gloria Steinem in both looks and feminist conviction will be a far cry from the damsels in distress audiences have grown accustomed to seeing in superhero films. The decision came as a shock even to the Captain Marvel comics writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick, who after neglecting to return a phone call from her editor, found out through her Twitter feed.
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