Why? Because the world created in film is even more sexist than the one we live in, and when a man and a woman talk the man’s world is the reference point for their conversation. His thoughts, his ideas, his conundrums, his desires. In The Dark Knight, Rachel has conversations with Bruce Wayne about his role as a vigilante and his desire to be with her. She has conversations with Harvey Dent about his career, his plans, his safety. What about her career, her desires, her safety? Well we don’t know anything about her career, and her desires we find out about in a 4-sentence letter. As to her safety—we find out about through the male characters’ desires to keep her safe.
This is not like my world—I spend lots of time talking to men, and a lot of the time we’re talking about me, my thoughts, my ideas, my career, my desires. But when men are primary characters in film and women only hold secondary roles, the conversations between them are bound to be about the principals. [link](via)
Oh wows! Its a movie you fool. And a damn good one at that (from what I have heard). I tell you, this PhD degree does strange things to people..
It’s funny actually. 90% of the people in the world spend all the time thinking how oppressed they are…
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Btw, what is chatohola?
There is something wrong with sentence construction. It is almost like a grammatical train wreck .
And what the hell is chatohola, don’t make me google it.
ROFL!!! The fight might be serious, but I am loving the words you both throw at each other!
Gaurav, I am in awe at your vocabulary, the words you use… Awesome !:)
Confused: You are cool, dude.. everytime you say unwashed Hindi, I ROFL here… !
Thanks for clarifying my doubt, guys..
Chatohola Gaurav
“grammatical train wreck”
Bravo, you proved to the world that you are not dumb by sniffing out “ing” factor that was missing in action.
Dude, what is aegophile?
Do not sweat over Chatohola, that’s a code word used by Brazilians when they go on a wild hunting spree
Am I the only one who feels that reading the conversation between the Gaurav who doubts the confused Rohit and the Rohit who undoubtedly confuses the Gaurav is more entertaining than the movie in question? I have not seen the movie, but I doubt it would be as entertaining as this
BTW, Gaurav, will you update your blog with some meaningful commentry instead of wasting time commenting on Streetcar? I think you are better off commenting on Retributions
Rohitbhai, keep up the good work. And yes, I love goats too (only nanny goats pls). Mutton just tastes awesome.
Aegophile is the word for goat-lover? nobody seems sure.
Could not locate the right post from R…to plug in something that I really really want to tell him
R’s blog is a fabulous n effective De-stressor, which could be due to his posts (most of them have quite light-hearted) n the quality of interactions that they manage to generate (most of his commentators have great a touch of humor coupled with knowledge-baked articulation – well read, travelled n exposed to a few different cultures)
should really thank you R !
Ditto to what Jyo said!
I bumped into some intelligent blogs after I came over here..
Btw I saw this movie, and I totally loved it. And now I think that there was no need for the audience to know about Rachel.. cmon, we are watching Dark Knight, where Batman himself is dimmed by Joker… who cares to know what Rachael’s career is…
I think the whole fuss about the word retard in Ben Stiller’s movie is somewhat related, and equally, uh retarded.