gold333 wrote:Whoops should have posted this here:
Can you imagine a reboot of Star Trek using all female actresses?
Female Kirk
Female Spock
Female Bones
Female Scotty
Female Uhura
Female Khan?
Or a female reboot of Star Wars?
Female Han Solo
Female Leia
Female Luke Skywalker
Female Chewbacca
Female C3PO
Female Darth Vader
Female Emperor?
Try to push your mind into thinking this happening seriously.
It would be nothing other than a parody... or weird female fetish fan film. It would simply be a joke.
The reason it would be -impossible- for that to happen to those franchises is that they are taken seriously. Too serious to become a socio-political marketing experiment.
The GB franchise isn't. It's seen as some old kids movie no-one remembers apart from a handful of old guys as part of their childhood. That's it. Sony felt it could parody it as it pleased.
This current backlash is raw evidence of them massively underestimating the global GB fandom and underestimating people outside of the fandom who simply see right through Sony and its blaming the panning of it's embarrassingly bad movie/trailer on misogyny.
The thing with your example is that this movie isn't just gender swapped versions of previously established characters aka:
Female Peter Venkman
Female Egon Spengler
Female Winson Zeddemore
Female Ray Stantz
They are different characters entirely, who arguably fill similar archetypes. Female Spock does sound absurd because that character is already established as being male, but a female Science Officer who fills the same role (possibly Vulcan, T'Pol) not so much. If Melissa McCarthy was playing Ray Stantz, the female paranormal scientist, then yes it would be a parody. So, using that logic a primarily female led cast of a Star Wars or Star Trek reboot doesn't sound so far fetched considering they would be different characters performing a similar (reboot) plot.
The big difference is that while those franchise have chosen to be more diverse with their leads with recent entries, they have opted to continue continuities on one way or another. The female cast isn't the issue (and shouldn't be). The continuity is what puts this movie in a bad light.