Modern Cinema Patronises Young Women - Baggage Claim

I can't believe I have to say this, but, like, just because you're a woman does not mean you are inherently good. You can be crazy. You can be destructive. And that's what I like about shows like House of the Dragon, is that it shows destructive capabilities that are both masculine and feminine.

The next James Bond films will have bigger roles for women and a more sensitive 007 according to the producers, who said, "Bond is evolving just as men are evolving." This is from The Telegraph. Producers said Daniel Craig's successor will continue the work of cracking Bond open emotionally as the franchise seeks to evolve. Next gen Bonds film will have bigger roles for women, more sensitive to 007. Bond is evolving. Brabra- Barbara Broccoli (laughs) said that the next actor will take the role, continue the work of Daniel Craig. Craig's last film, No Time To Die, humanized Bond by making him a devoted family man. It also featured meatier roles for female characters. What are your thoughts on this?

So I think partially it makes sense to me and partially it doesn't. Um, I'm glad that the strategy isn't to just, uh, have a female, you know, play James Bond and completely change the character, because James Bond is a male character. And I think an important aspect of having more female characters and female heroes should come with creating new heroes for females, or, you know, new roles for females. Uh, but the idea of making James Bond more sensitive, I guess I would ask what they would mean by that. I think part of what's very attractive about James Bond is that he is a macho, uh, character who's very, who's very powerful physically, but also mentally, that physical strength that is very, we encourage that in men, you know, specifically when they have very difficult jobs. Like, I think a couple, couple weeks ago, you spoke to someone who was, who was in the high rungs of the CIA, right? And it's not, it's not an easy thing to be doing work like that. It takes a lot of mental fortitude. And that's not to say that women can't do it or men can't do it. It's just a different type of strength that looks very masculine when, when, uh, a man like James Bond is doing it, and I think that's what makes him super attractive. Uh, I think if we take that and break it down and in the way that, you know, ev- every, every male character these days has ge- gotten this, like, deconstruction that's happening to him, where, uh, maybe he's a lot more emotional. Maybe he's a lot more, you know, showing-

Stupid.

... showing his vulnerabilities (laughs) and stupid. That's definitely the biggest one. I think that's not the right approach to take to male characters. I think men who watch, you know, watch the movies, they look for inspiration is that, "How can I, too, emulate strength?" But that shouldn't ever come at, at the cost of then, you don't, your emotions don't exist. You're not a real person. You don't get to feel anything. It should never come to that. There are always extremes to anything, right? Uh, so I think if they go too extreme on the other end, where he stops being what makes James Bond so exciting and interesting, I think that would be a really big mistake. But I'm also glad that it's not the sort of 1950s approach to how ma- masculine and feminine, uh, people would interact with each other, right? Uh, where there was definitely a lot more misogyny in, in the 1950s and '60s in the way the female characters were treated. It's very dis- different, and I think Vesper Lynd was a very big shift, right? She was this, she was a great female character to introduce to... Well, obviously she was in the books, but it was very different in the movies. I like that approach, where it's become more of this equal thing, but it shouldn't, it shouldn't be that James Bond stops being James Bond.