Aya the Vampire Slayer wrote:
> Ken from Chicago
comcast.net> wa:>> Do cgi movies hate female leads?
>
>> The closest one comes to a female lead major release cgi movie is THE
>> INCREDIBLES, four years ago, and she was the co-lead, the wife of lead,
>> altho technically, it was male lead (the group is named after the male
>> lead). For a flat out clearly female lead cgi major movie, you gotta go back
>> to 2001's FINAL FANTASY.
>
> Probably because fart-joke movies don't work as well with female leads.
I think it's more because CGI movies, like all movies, try to
incorporate a lot of action scenes. And there are few female action
heroes in animation besides Wonder Woman. That's nothing new; in comic
books, the preponderance of superheroes are mostly male.
Remember, at least half of the audience for these movies is young boys.
And young boys don't like domineering girls, which is why female
superheroes have been relatively less popular.
> Ratatouille is one of the few that didn't have any fart jokes. I imagine
> that Wall-E probably didn't either, although I don't know for sure
> because I haven't seen it (yet?).
>
> Being female myself, I don't actually find myself caring that much that
> most leads are male. Do black people care much that most hollywood
> movies have white leads?
Yep, they cared about that a whole lot.
Also, Asians have long griped that there have been very few positive
role model leads for Asian characters on TV--just spies and villains.
(How many positive characters can you name besides Star Trek's Sulu and
Lost's Jin/Sun?)
