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Why so few BADASS mothers in movies?

posted 8 years ago by b_bluesky
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No matter how "unoriginal" you may find this premise, you have to ask yourself why has this perspective been ignored for this long.

At the top of my head, I can't think of a single movie where the mother went ALL OUT ACTION, "I'm going to tear up this highway" mode to save their child.

We often see mothers, tissue in hand, waiting by the phone, crying on a shoulder, delivering a tearful message of safe return on tv, but rarely this hanging-on-the-edge-of-a-speading-car-while-being-dragged version

I hope this opens the door for Halle as an action star. She is fit and she has stated that she's ready for the next challenge in her career.

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[–] creatorof2002 8 years ago

Terminator 2 Judgement Day had a badass mother SARAH CONNOR and that was filmed over a quarter century ago.

But badasses are usually men in movies still I admit.

[–] sleepingtiger (712) 8 years ago

Check out Geena Davis as a bad-ass, ass-kicking mama in THE LONG GOODNIGHT. Look at practically every Hong Kong film made over the past 50 years, where plenty of mothers kick ass and hand out beatdowns on a daily basis using martial arts and damn near everything else. So,no this perspective hasn't been ignored, you just don't see it a lot in male-dominated Hollywood films, that's all. Check foreign films for that.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

It's The Long Kiss Goodnight. Best action movie nobody knows!

[–] robocat893 (16251) 8 years ago

Maybe not the best action movie but it is damn good. It's sad that most people haven't heard of it though.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

Sorry, I meant it's the best action-movie-nobody-knows... like in among of all of the action-movies-nobody-knows, it was the best.

[–] db20db (17744) 8 years ago

How about Sally Field in Eye for an Eye ?