Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies?
Well, in the form of movies where they keep their clothes on it could just be that there’re not that many people interested. Lesbians are some 1% or so of the female population. So, we’re talking about something that resonates with (sure, of course we don’t have to be exactly the same as the characters. I’ve never fought anyone with a samurai sword but Kill Bill passed the time pleasantly enough) some -.5% of the adult population.
That’s something to spend tens of millions on, is it?
In the sort of movies where everyone doesn’t keep their clothes on I’m told that it’s a very popular subject.
“Kill Bill passed the time pleasantly”
Tim – You’ve gone down in my estimation.
It was supposedly Tarrantino’s homage to the cheap, badly made, badly scripted action movies which spewed out of Hong Kong in the 1970s and that’s certainly how it came across.
“Lesbians are some 1% or so of the female population”
1%? Are you Sure? In my head, attractive girls I know are at each other all the time.
Deadpool 2 doesn’t count, then?
Is this another ‘Guardian’ article that generates the response “Well, why don’t you write/make some then, instead of whining that other people aren’t making/writing them?”…?
‘Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies?’
They are stunned that their years of propaganda have left a population that still doesn’t care.
Tim
Did you notice On TRUK either the endorsement of the desire to print more money or yesterday’s effort prescribing that people should be employed digging holes and filling them in (a.k.a ‘a job guarantee’) Also according to the Tubermeister your brand of politics is now the default setting of the BBC as well?
If you made such a film and had stunning characters (L Word) you’ll get a certain audience that might require a bit of clothes removal. And criticism.
If you made such a film and made the characters look like Andrea Dworkin you’ll get other criticism, and probably no audience.
There is plenty of lesbian porn about
A friend*, who is something of an obsessive in these matters, confirms that the adult sites which specialise in such niche tastes, do not even have this as a category which, given they list the content by category in minute detail for the smallest interest groups possible, indicates that probably not a single person in the entire world gives the remotest fvck.
* not Rocco
“Lesbians are some 1% or so of the female population. So, we’re talking about something that resonates with (sure, of course we don’t have to be exactly the same as the characters. I’ve never fought anyone with a samurai sword but Kill Bill passed the time pleasantly enough) some -.5% of the adult population.”
Quite. I think a *lot* of films are about people with vanishingly rare problems or characteristics. The number of people who have been bitten by a radioactive spider and acquired superpowers, and for who ‘Spiderman’ therefore ‘resonates’, is pretty small, too.
It’s more a question of whether people have any sympathy for the character’s problems, than whether they share the same actual problem. (And there are quite a few more lesbian coming-of-age movies around than the article mentions. Bit surprised they didn’t mention ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’, for example.) I don’t see any reason why the audience would necessarily be limited only to actual lesbians.
Or maybe there really is a large proportion of the public into men who wear their underpants on top of their tights in public, as the recent popularity of superhero movies would suggest?
“Or maybe there really is a large proportion of the public into men who wear their underpants on top of their tights”
Well, John Major seems to have got some proportion of the female population going.
VP: Spud has been saying for ages how obscene it is that people have money that they can chose what to spend on themselves, so he must be spanking himself into ecstacy with today’s bank rate increase.
JuliaM,
Quite. And it’s not even the millions that Timmy is saying. $0 will get a film made. Something reasonably professional starts at $10k.
The writer also missed The Handmaiden, which is terrific.
Film making, like credit cards is (almost?) a double sided market. First you must sell the film (idea) to investors so you make a film to sell to viewers.
Getting investment can be a nightmare. Perhaps the main difference between Hollywood and independent, are the size of the cheques.
So perhaps the author of that whinge fest should put their money where their mouth is.
Netflix keeps trying to get me to watch a French film called “Blue is the Warmest Colour”, about two improbably pretty teenage lesbians. It was directed by a straight man, which says a lot.
Andrew M,
Should have gone to Specsavers.
@ Ducky McDuckface
It has since been admitted, after “Bad Al” Campbell lost control of New Labour in 2008, that this story was totall made up by Alastair Campbell.
A lie can get around the world before the truth has got its boots on.
@AndrewM
Netflix’s ‘Films You Might Want To Watch’ suggestions are based on your previous viewing history.
We learn new things about you, every day.
On an only slightly related topic, I’ve recently become aware of a genre of fiction that I had no idea existed. When I recently updated my Kindle, a work colleague was extolling the virtues of Kindle Unlimited. It seems you can, for a monthly fee, download an unlimited number of eligible books.
Browsing around to see what was available, I noticed a large number of M/M romance stories. You know, Mills & Boon-type stuff, only with two blokes. The really big surprise, however, is that they are almost entirely written by women. Wondering what the target demographic for these was, I checked some of the reviews. Again, almost all written by women.
“Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies?” (My emphasis).
So there are some then. My guess is that they will be a self obsessed dreary whinge about how the world is against them with not the slightest hint of any entertainment or educational value, let alone humour.
On the rare occasions I watch films I want to be entertained with a good story line and preferably some humour. There can’t be many Peruvian marmalade eating bears that speak English, but the story line made for a couple of cracking films with lots of humour.
‘Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies?’
Because Leftards demand that young queer females in movies must be played by young queer females. And they are too hard to find.
‘Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies?’
Because the number of actual dykes (as opposed to women who have had or might fancy homosexual experiences) is minimal?
Of course the mere fact of Superman and related bullshit means that blokes with cocks are women, according to the wildly mentally ill.
John77, I was thinking more of the Private Eye cartoons, TBH.