Besides myself, obviously.
Anyone? Anyone at all? Do you notice a pattern with certain films?
For example, Friday the 13th has campers who are usually sexually promiscuous and who die in number of gruesome ways. Of course, the one survivor is the one girl who abstains from sex or alcohol.
Jason X (2002) was a weird addition...with Jason in space...what was...why even?...I have no words for it.
Actually, the less said about any film after the 1984 Jason film the better. Just, no. No.
There are other movies that are, thankfully, better made plot wise. Sleepy Hollow (1999), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), to name a few. Of course, not all female roles include being a helpless damsel or being the "good girl".
But they are meant to show terror. To show fear.
These films are made to scare and terrorize, to make us squirm and tremble. There are people who like being scared. Some want the "closeness" of a date at the movies, you know, the stereotypical girl cuddles with guy because she's scared.
But why can't it be the other way around? Men can be scared. That's okay. It shows that they're not macho robots. Fear is a good thing. Reminds us that we are not invincible and that we are human.
I like to think that fear humble us, keeps us from thinking we are more than human, more than flesh and blood.
And I think that is one of our greatest strengths: being able to live and act and accomplish amazing things even in the face of fear.
Do you disagree?
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