So, I just saw a trailer for a film called Carry On which is a thriller about a security guard being forced to do something for mysterious figure. An hour later I'm still pissed off about it. Not about the plot of the film, at all, I love a good one room thriller (in fact it's pretty much my favourite genre, pretty much every play, every short I've ever written is a one room something).
The problem is I get halfway through the trailer and then they announce this:
“You will do what we say because we have your girlfriend and/or wife.” It’s never “we have your husband”, “your boyfriend,” “fiancé”.
If it is being switched up then the object – yeah 'cause that's what this archetype is, they’re an object – to be saved is your father, your brother, your son.
Obviously, not to say this never happens, but it's really interesting the only way they'll let women save men as if it's within that maternal family concept. It's just this weird specific quirk of misogyny in film
I'm just saying that it could be interesting to put more men in situations.]