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This movie has a chauvinist background to it...

posted 11 years ago by archer6749
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I remember seeing a documentary for this movie a while back and one of the film producer's said that when the script was being made it started out with a man flying from Tokyo to America with his son on a business trip and his son disappears. But they decided to make it a woman and her daughter after the loss of the husband because it would seem more realistic for the people on the plane not to believe a woman who they think came on board alone than a man claiming that his son has disappeared. I guess they assume that since women are still to this day known as the "weaker sex" by idiots that it would be easier to believe that a woman goes crazy than a man going insane on an airplane after the stress of losing a loved one. Good job pricks!!

[–] wonderfulwonderer 11 years ago

I think that you're right about that.This idea emerged in British Literature and is still used in movies today which is kind of extraordinary.Woman were always described as these "creatures" who can not control their emotions and are always in a stage of what they called "hysteria" in the past and what men joke about now which is PMS.So I think you are right.It is just easier to make a woman crazy on film than a man because some times people just ignore woman and blame their "hormones" from them having these emotional phases that "affect" their perception of reality and their opinions.This isn't true of course but this ideology was brought to you by the white male who does not care much for woman as human being but as a "creature" that needs to be tamed.

[–] jmaybay 10 years ago

I saw that documentary! I thought Foster had tried for the plot and they told her it was for a man and she explained that. A mother would be more likely to not give up her search for her child than a man would. Still everyone would think she was crazy, but she'd more likely not be able to be persuaded that she made a mistake.