Emma Seligman (Thankfully) Lets Her Lead Characters Be Self-Absorbed Disasters

In June 2014, Tasha Robinson lamented the state of women characters in then-modern blockbuster cinema. Specifically, Robinson's excellent essay "We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome" on The Dissolve noticed that several blockbusters like How to Train Your Dragon 2 or The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug were happy to include one prominent powerful lady character but failed to give those ladies anything notable to do.

Danielle is a very pronounced introduction to Emma Seligman’s fascination with messy self-absorbed protagonists and an extremely entertaining manifestation of that kind of character at that. That's partly because of Seligman’s witty writing, which gives Danielle such memorable lines as “Oh, you guys [in the photo] are at the Holocaust museum. You look so... happy!” while the camerawork from cinematographer Maria Rusche perfectly puts viewers into the frazzled mindset of this character.

‘Bottoms’ Hilariously Explores Female Sexual Desires There’s a delightfully anarchic energy to Emma Seligman’s second directorial effort, Bottoms, that heavily informs why this particular high school sex comedy is so hysterical. This farce is full of people who lie, cheat, blow up cars, and dismiss the idea of bomb threats.

There’s also the fact that Bottoms is inhabiting the sex comedy genre, a realm largely dominated by male protagonists in the past. Needless to say, such lead characters often behaved in less than morally upstanding ways, with such transgressions often being dismissed under a “boys will be boys” attitude.

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