I actually think Selma is much better-looking than Reese (who's still nice of course), but come on. Can this be done a little more? The brunette doesn't even have to be evil, just the blonde's less sought-after sidekick or like in House Bunny, how all the girls were brunettes and "ugly" in the beginning.
I try to be like Grace Kelly, but all her looks were too
Except that 90% of the time, it's the prettier blonde who's evil, and the less pretty brunette who's nice.
Other than that, though ....
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Sometimes, yes, but the brunette is still supposed to be awkward/plain/ugly/nerdy/whatever.
"I never confuse gentleness with weakness."
The Princess Diares: Gorgeous evil blonde vs. gorgeous sweet brunette
Sydney White: Pretty evil blonde vs. pretty sweet brunette
Mean Girls: Beautiful evil blonde vs. beautiful sweet redhead
High School Musical: Lovely evil blonde vs. lovely sweet dark haired girl
Hairspray: Stunning evil blonde vs. overweight sweet brunette
Easy A: Cute evil blonde vs. cute sweet redhead
I'm seeing a much different pattern than the OP's...
"She was a wretched pig of a woman and the day she died this world became a better place."
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The brunette was ugly and the "ugly" blonde stepsisters were far from ugly- the stepmother was quite goodlooking for her age.
You want that bad attitude drippin' out yer ears?
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Mia was hideous in TPD. She actually looked better with the "bad" hair and glasses. Vanessa and Ashley are awful.
Lindsay is/was really gross too, in more ways than one, but I get what you mean.
But still, Tracey Turnblad is a good example of what I mean. The blonde is 'cute' and the heroine is fat. When I say pretty, I mean not hideous or mutantlike. I didn't want your guys' personal opinions on how they look. I mean people always try to make the blondes look good and the brunettes, bad or less good. I didn't think it was that hard to figure out. This had happened in more movies than I can count.
You want that bad attitude drippin' out yer ears?
a cinderella story: gorgeous sweet blonde vs gorgeous evil blonde. lol
another cinderella story: gorgeous sweet brunette (selena gomez) against ugly evil blonde.
Teen Wolf: Georgeous superficial blonde vs. plain sweet brunette
Better Off Dead: Georgeous superficial blonde vs. georgeous ambitious brunette
I must be seeing a different pattern than you, because a lot of movies (and musicals) have blonde people as the pure, desirable girl. Blonde haired, blue-eyed people get way more positive attention (and attention, period) in the media than brunettes.
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Not really... Blonde women are seen as the nice dumb person at best, and an evil slut at the worse.
shareSelma is very attractive (or as Elle would say, "She's not totally unfortunate-looking" :) ) but in no universe is she "much better-looking" than Reese.
sharebut in no alternative universe is she "much better-looking" than Reese.
Selma is very attractive (or as Elle would say, "She's not totally unfortunate-looking" :) ) but in no universe is she "much better-looking" than Reese.
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Wrong, in Hellboy 2 Liz Sherman is a lot better looking than Reese
It is at this point i must say beauty is a matter of openion. Reese could easil be thought of as ugly with her tiny boobs, strangly pointed chin, and the sour/doe eyed faces that have made her famouse. I think shes' pretty but its an openion just like ya'lls or anyone else's. also. Their are pleantly of movies where this steriotpe/reverse steriotype is portraied this way or that way. Its TV. it's all a recration of some remake or another.
shareI think Reese is pretty :)
Selma usually looks really plain..
Mean Girls: Beautiful evil blonde vs. beautiful sweet redhead
"Mean Girls" is a special case, since it didn't follow the typical, more simple, pattern of having just a bad blonde and a good brunette and having thems stay the same throughout. It had a whole team of mean girls, some of whom are semi-mean, or torn between whether to be mean or not to be.
Key observations, though:
- The meanest and most consistently mean girl had to be quite blonde: and they went to the trouble dying Rachel McAdams' hair to accomplish this.
- The anti-mean girl had to have very brown hair and look plain: and they went to the trouble of dying Lizzy Kaplan's hair (which is naturally somewhere in the vicinity of light brown, I think) and making her look frumpy.
In the movie, Selma didn't play an evil brunette. She was Reese's rival, yes, but not in an evil sort of way. Both wanted the same goal, and that was Warner. However, when they actually started working together they became friends. By the end of the movie, there's a graduation scene that states that Selma has her happily ever after.
shareyes she was supposed to be "evil"- the bad guy. the mean girl. the rival. obviously the OP did not mean a rapist or murderer or whatever.
Sweet as sugar, hard as ice, hurt me once I'll kill you twice~
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I would have been okay with it but with the exception of Elle's brunette sorority sisters, all of the brunettes were mean or evil: Chutney and her mom, Vivianne's friend, the salesgirl, Enid.
"I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't"
Kacey Musgraves "Pageant Material"
Reducing women to archetypes based on their hair colour is a debasing phenomenon that's meant to dehumanise the woman and take away all her individuality and humanity.
It's best not to pander to those sexist tropes. They belong in the debasing and objectifying world of porn. No decent man does this.