Five women I would like to see good films about
1) Harriet Jacobs. Which. Admittedly if there were a biopic about her coming out I would probably be terrified of it and antsy and not want to go see it in theaters because oh my god I would need to be able to stop the tape and walk away and come back to get through it, but she just blows me away, and and and it could be awesome!
2) Rebecca Harding Davis. I can think of so many ways to structure her story, and it could be really cool to do a biopic about a literary woman working in the midst of taking care of her family and promoting her husband's career - so long as no one went with the old and inaccurate line about her work declining and her becoming a discredited and uninteresting frustrated writer, which is not true. (Yes, I admit it, I can just see so many ways this could go wrong.) She was a prolific and powerful writer, and had a wide range. And I think that her major thematic touchstone, ability neglected or suppressed, could be an iiiiinteresting center to the movie.
3) Lucy Parsons. I get all excited and start making eeping noises at the very idea. It could be so incredibly fantastic.
4) Hild of Whitby. Okay, so the information on Hild is scanty. But we do know that she was an energetic administrator, involved in the community beyond her convent walls, theologically influential, and very highly regarded by everyone who knew her. I think her life could make a good story, especially if it used the Synod of Whitby as a framework, and flashed back and forward to tell her life.
5) Florence Li Tim-Oi. She was a really interesting person, the first woman ordained by the Anglican communion. I think centering a movie around her ordination by the Bishop of Hong Kong and her subsequent life under the Japanese occupation - with some sort of epilogue after she resigns her license at war's end, covering the reconfirmation of her status as a priest in the 1970s - could be really really cool.
What about you? :D
2) Rebecca Harding Davis. I can think of so many ways to structure her story, and it could be really cool to do a biopic about a literary woman working in the midst of taking care of her family and promoting her husband's career - so long as no one went with the old and inaccurate line about her work declining and her becoming a discredited and uninteresting frustrated writer, which is not true. (Yes, I admit it, I can just see so many ways this could go wrong.) She was a prolific and powerful writer, and had a wide range. And I think that her major thematic touchstone, ability neglected or suppressed, could be an iiiiinteresting center to the movie.
3) Lucy Parsons. I get all excited and start making eeping noises at the very idea. It could be so incredibly fantastic.
4) Hild of Whitby. Okay, so the information on Hild is scanty. But we do know that she was an energetic administrator, involved in the community beyond her convent walls, theologically influential, and very highly regarded by everyone who knew her. I think her life could make a good story, especially if it used the Synod of Whitby as a framework, and flashed back and forward to tell her life.
5) Florence Li Tim-Oi. She was a really interesting person, the first woman ordained by the Anglican communion. I think centering a movie around her ordination by the Bishop of Hong Kong and her subsequent life under the Japanese occupation - with some sort of epilogue after she resigns her license at war's end, covering the reconfirmation of her status as a priest in the 1970s - could be really really cool.
What about you? :D