Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Why Modern Movies Suck - They Hate Men (Part 1)" video.
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Female characters are often just powerfantasies, just having everything, somethign you normally make up when you are maybe 10 or younger.
This includes that everyone else is stupid even more those you dislike. Again: like in the powerfantasy of a little kid.
It's not even that stoic characters for example are a role model. They are often not good personw, with a hell lot of failures and problems, who even lost control over their lives or are outright broken. But then they still stand up and do what has to be done, not because the world bends around them and gives them what they want, but by fighting for it.
That's what makes the characters interesting. You don't really want to be them, but they can be an inspiration.
People come up with anime or whatever to touch you "never give up", but those heroes you got there are just chosen from the start, massively increase in power and the sheer wish to the best makes them the best in the end. That's not message, that just nonsense and people should be thankful for that, because if wishful thinking would be able to do that, this planet would be even more in the dumpster.
The stoic hero isn't like that. The stoic hero knows his place and that it isn't a good one, that the odds are against him and that going through with it would not be rewardful, no joy, just more pain - and is still doing it, because it's right (if it wouldn't be right, he wouldn't be stoic, but a psychopath...).
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Well, stoicism is how society wants men to behave - keep their mouth shut, do the job with no care for themselves.
It's an odd thing, neither just bad nor good. It's of course good to take up a challenge, do the job, but the abuse of it, to reduce people, male people to tools who don't value especially their own life is also a very, very deep hole.
This said: that's also what make the stoic characters in movies interesting, because they simply aren't the super hero who is easily solving the problem, they often DROWN in all the problems, which incluids their stoic behaviour, they struggle, are broken, got nothing left - it still stand up, often doing the right thing.
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@kateris1976 Still a stupid copy/past form better death game stories. The whole setup of Hunger Games is ridiculous and having good written antagonist is just as if not even more important than the protagonists.
The antagonists of Hunger Games are retarded just as their idea of the Hunger Games.
Concept like Battle Royal are fucked up enough, but if you got a fascistic regime, it could be believeable enough, that supposedly unruly teenagers are pushed into a game of survival as example and punishment, even more when it's a low budget thing.
Hunger Games meanwhile are a gigantic waste of resources and all that to just randomly murder children, what will push people to uprise, the exact opposite of what you want as a dictatorship.
Would even be easy to fix, just cut out all the fancy high tech stuff (when you got a nation with such high tech, why the fuck would they even care to feed far less effective slaves?) and put those in the Hungers Games which DID uprise as example what happens to those who break the law and go against the order. Voila, already far better.
Now don't make the antagonists retarded and instead let the protagonists need to have an actual plan and cut out that nonsense, that the other children or district are evil, because they actually try to win - or at least let your protagonists not kill at all and just try to survive and go against the game for really having a moral high ground and don't let the oh so evil dictatorship bend the rules for him or her, then you got a good base for a potentially interesting story.
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