Kevin Costner Makes “Movies for Men” But Always Strives to Include “Strong Women Characters”

[hewontgo]

Kevin Costner Says He Makes "Movies for Men" But Always Strives to Include "Strong Women Characters" https://t.co/Tu6wCYjwWu
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 29, 2024

Kevin Costner knows his audience.
Costner opened up about writing fully fleshed-out characters, particularly women, that aren’t typically seen in Westerns.

“When you start

Comments

[brennans]

I wish more people would make movies for men, there's not really enough out there.

[peddlestools]

damn and i thought waterworld was made for me

[ladychips]

my cousin loves waterworld but openly admits its terrible and that she has no clue why she likes it

[peddlestools]

the only reason i like it is the universal studios stunt show tbh

[wistfulwisp]

I suppose I should be glad that he supposedly considers it important to have supposedly well-written women in his films.

[shimabukuro]

To the men’s community. I hear you. It's wrenching to you see you in this pain. I am glad we are having this conversation. It's time.

[para1]

I want to ridicule this but let's face it, Chris Nolan and Martin Scorsese can make widely critically admired films without ever bothering to add women at all, let alone strong or interesting ones. Anna Paquin had 7 lines in The Irishman. Florence Pugh was in Oppenheimer to drop the "destroyer of worlds" line. Nolan couldn't to give real-life contributor to the Manhattan project and Nobel Prize Maria Goeppert-Mayer any screentime (she doesn't exist at all when he had plenty of space for male late-famous dude who didn't add anything), probably because she was 38 at the time. Instead he gave us an unnamed, fictional twenty-year old, fuckable woman scientist.

So yeah, that's the Best Picture Oscar winner in the year of our lord 2024: the bar is in hell.