How about this one: from 2006 to 2009, 80.5% of all working characters in family films were male and 19.5% were female – this is when women make up 50% of the US workforce. For the last 14 years they’ve been analysing family films and uncovering dismal statistics. ![]() Numbers are something that the men in suits understand – and that’s why the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media has been crunching them in real life, too. “Heavyweight problems need heavyweight solutions,” bristles Elastigirl’s bulky husband (Craig T Nelson), unaccustomed to having his status challenged – but, like Winston, he complies. ![]() When rich benefactor Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) starts a plan to bring back banned superheroes, it’s his tech-savvy sister Evelyn Deavor (Catherine Keener) who crunches the numbers and states that Mrs Incredible is the best person for the world-saving job – she’s statistically less liable to cause havoc and more likely to get results. The plot that sees Mrs Helen Parr/Elastigirl (voiced by Holly Hunter) going to work while her husband looks after the kids isn’t a simple case of role reversal: it’s an act of sisterhood. Not only that, but some were so focused on their arousal at Elastigirl’s shapely form, they failed to spot – or at least comment upon – the fact that the film is a feminist triumph.Īs a female film critic watching Incredibles 2, I was thrilled to see an animation that bucked tired gender cliches even more than the first film had. ![]() B rie Larson is the latest Hollywood actor to call for a greater gender balance in film criticism – yet when the US reviews for Incredibles 2 emerged after its 15 June release, voices were overwhelmingly male.
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