Comments on: Matt Damon…feminist? http://www.anglofille.com/2007/08/19/matt-damonfeminist/ An American in London Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Luke http://www.anglofille.com/2007/08/19/matt-damonfeminist/comment-page-1/#comment-29012 Luke Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:17:17 +0000 http://www.anglofille.com/2007/08/19/matt-damonfeminist/#comment-29012 The 007 franchise is, I think, the film industry's own version of Hugh Hefner and violent masculinity all rolled up into one. When there's been a rotating cast of white, heterosexual 30-40 something men playing the same static role for generations...and just as the director and Damon said, living life without consequence, associating globe-trotting and saving the world as also having sex with this and that woman while saying lines like "I thought Christmas only came once a year"...all while then having absolutely no real emotional vulnerabilities whatsoever. But kudos to Damon. I actually just saw this the other day with a friend and it was completely surprising and refreshing to see a movie where they <i>didn't</i> mix in violence with clothes-ripping Mr. & Mrs. Smith sex scenes. The 007 franchise is, I think, the film industry’s own version of Hugh Hefner and violent masculinity all rolled up into one. When there’s been a rotating cast of white, heterosexual 30-40 something men playing the same static role for generations…and just as the director and Damon said, living life without consequence, associating globe-trotting and saving the world as also having sex with this and that woman while saying lines like “I thought Christmas only came once a year”…all while then having absolutely no real emotional vulnerabilities whatsoever.

But kudos to Damon. I actually just saw this the other day with a friend and it was completely surprising and refreshing to see a movie where they didn’t mix in violence with clothes-ripping Mr. & Mrs. Smith sex scenes.

]]> By: nikoline http://www.anglofille.com/2007/08/19/matt-damonfeminist/comment-page-1/#comment-29008 nikoline Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:26:34 +0000 http://www.anglofille.com/2007/08/19/matt-damonfeminist/#comment-29008 I knew I liked him for a reason. (Matt, that is - not James.) I knew I liked him for a reason. (Matt, that is – not James.)

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