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powered pretend 1960s style housewife.īlade Runner 2049 criminally underuses Mackenzie Davis as a "hooker with a heart of gold," a movie trope so tiresome and old school it's almost nostalgic. Then we have the subservient fawning kitten that is Joi, a purchasable housewife style AI program whose greater yearnings all revolve around her devotion to Joe.Ĭarla Juri plays a manic pixie dream girl, damsel in distress, "woman in a tower," living in Blade Runner's literal glass cage.īlade Runner 2049 also gives us a bunch of dudes running around motivated by the deaths of women, from the off-screen death of the original movie's Rachael to the - Spoiler Alert - murder of Gosling's A.I. As if to seal the deal with the audience, she even plants a laughably improbable and out-of-nowhere kiss on Gosling in the film's climax straight out of an S&M dungeon. She's a tough-as-nails femme fatale in heels, coldly flirtatious, deadly murderous. Robin Wright gives us a sleek, whisky drinking, all black wearing, hardened dominatrix like authority figure, who nevertheless sexualizes the movie's hero.Īs the male villain's chief assassin, Sylvia Hoeks operates within similar parameters. The women of Blade Runner 2049 each fall into some type of male fetish archetype.
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For that matter, 1953's How to Marry a Millionaire passes. Yes, both versions, even the remake with Nicole Kidman. Even when two of them may or may not be talking about a - spoiler alert - off-screen female character, at least one of them doesn't know that, and it's still in the larger context of a conversation about the whereabouts of Ryan Gosling's male detective.Įven The Stepford Wives managed to pass the Bechdel Test. Despite its nearly three hour run time and excellent casting choices, there are only a handful of scenes that feature two women speaking to each other, and in each of them, they are talking about a man. The "Bechdel Test" questions whether a story features a scene with at least two women talking to each other about something other than a man.īlade Runner 2049 flunks this test. We aren't taking anything away from the immense talents of gifted performers Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, or Mackenzie Davis. Here we'll take a look at why Blade Runner 2049 has a woman problem.įirst and foremost, Blade Runner 2049 flunks the Bechdel Test. As one writer put it on opening weekend: A Woman Problem. But even with the elegant and immersive score, cinematography, solid casting, and direction from Denis Villeneuve and executive producer Ridley Scott, Blade Runner 2049 has a huge issue.
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