I want Broke Back Mountain made with a heterosexual couple, Thelma and Louise done with 2 gay men and me playing the lead in Martin Luther King’s biopic.
This is baffling to me. Waller Bridge’s character was portrayed a bad person whose selfishness and bad judgement got the hero into trouble repeatedly. Not too dissimilar to the female leads in the first two films, only even more of a unflattering character by focusing on the bad person bit rather than the unhelpfness. The idea there is some sort of pro-female agenda there just because there is a female in the cast is exactly the sort of knee jerk easy to dismiss criticism @deneb referenced.
At some points she even spoke without being spoken to.
Whether you appreciate it or not, your position is that it demonstrates a film ruining agenda if there is a female character who has even a momentary win even while being characterized in a negative light. Which is of course exactly how we got here
The story of the club, the history of the city etc all give it a very working class appeal - even if top level football no longer has any relation to working class people
Oh lordy no. My position is very simple. If you want a strong female lead, put her in her own film, don’t take agency from one of the greatest heros in screen history.