" (473) I have to say, I agree with her statement, one hundred percent! Women are not helpless, and it is high time that someone writes a screenplay that portrays a stronger, more effective female personality. Okay, so watching some of these women in crisis movies may help women to see that they are not alone; abuse, alcoholism, or having rotten children does not make them a failure. It also may give them hope that one day, they too, will be a strong enough person to overcome whatever plagues them. Other disturbing roles women play are the sexy, dimwitted, help me I"m a woman roles. What a disappointment, and an insult to us all! For whatever reason, this is the role that men appear to be more attracted to. This is what they pay the big bucks to see at the theater. Here's an example, perhaps not a huge blockbuster at the theater, but it does make the point, She's All That (1999), starring Rachael Lee Cook as Laney Boggs. Here is a movie where the female role has been taken from one extreme to the other. "When she spills her books in front of class superstar Zach Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.), his buddies bet that he can't turn the ugly duckling into a prom queen." (Netflix) There you have it, a so-called victim, a girl that needs "help", because she isn't popular, she must be miserable, and so, our hero saves her from her horrid life. She could have been a young version, a flashback, of the female president that I was looking for earlier, that squashed Bin Laden! .
Further yet, away from the female presidential role I am seeking, is the strong, deceitful black widow-like role. A movie that comes to mind is, Disclosure (1994), starring Demi Moore as the executive witch who sexually harasses Michael Douglas, the weak, and powerless jellyfish who allows himself to succumb briefly to her alluring sexual pressure. She blackmails him, humiliates him, and makes him look like a complete fool.
