is a comic book film that is quietly yet profoundly different, not in the story it shares but in how it is told. From director Cathy Yan, screenwriter Christina Hodson and star and producer Margot Robbie,is one of the more cognizant and thorough deconstructions of the male gaze to hit recent mainstream cinema, particularly as it relates to the superhero genre.
It is in the subtle, thoughtful details reinforcing the concept of Harley’s self-ownership throughout that ultimately speak the loudest. The film puts its money where its mouth is in ways that reverberate through all aspects of production, from the sets to the costumes to the cinematography. It is not merely a story about Harley, but hers to tell, not muse but author.
scrawled in what is clearly supposed to be her own handwriting. It is pervasive in the telling, in her character narrating the film, in the gleeful scrambling continuity, jumping back and forth, starting and stopping. And the villain Harley has to outwit? A crime lord who lives in an apartment where the wallpaper is patterned with bound, naked women in repose.’s consideration on this front boils down to a tale of two shirts.
When you’re a girl growing up caring about superhero movies and you see girls and women in those films treated in this fashion, it leaves a profound impression. It is not the existence of this gaze that does the damage but seeing it in constant repetition. The point is not that straight men should not be allowed to fantasize or that all the male gaze laden comic book films of yore — and all those undoubtedly yet to come — should be burned in ceremonial pyres. The “Daddy’s Lil Monster” shirt makes a cameo in ; Harley insists on keeping it. For sentimental reasons, she says. That shirt and all it represents do not need to be destroyed. It can be kept and even recalled fondly. The point is that there needs to be room at the table for everybody else.
crap like this is one of the reason's why its failing and badly i may add, it could be near or at the bottom of modern, if not all cbm's - how lil opening weekend was with 0 competition, i think it's not even gonna get close to Shazam type numbers and that was low
Kulap FLOP. I pass....
Fucking what?
Yh MEN arent gazing alright not T their wallet, not at the cinema. Let the feminist, fund this one.
Thanks. Good piece. Some of us really do appreciate not having a female character be defined by ass shots.
Pieces like this is why this film is doing poorly. No one wants to be preached to in a SUPERHERO film. This shit is killing superhero comics. They are becoming boring slice of life stories interrupted by action.
BirdsOfPrey was amazing!!! Harley truly deserved a solo movie! Greenlight that sequel already w Cassandra & Poison Ivy!
LOL. Complete BS
Very true, a woman with a stick and balls !
And that's why it flopped...Don't you have a bankruptsy to declare HuffPost ? What you doing on Twatter?
Um, no, I was still gazing, and there's nothing wrong with that. Physical attraction is a perfectly normal, human thing. Deconstruct your sexual repression and quit shaming men for having hormones. We can appreciate beauty, personality, intelligence, etc. all at the same time.
ItchyBacca All I heard was 'In Birds of Prey, we wanted to show how bad Harley could look as opposed to how much money we could make'
Also from the writer of that stunning and brave thinkpiece:
She looked fantastic though...
That was the best part of the movie to me.
the clown look is for kids birthday party, Poor acting cast does not sell tickets or disks
ItchyBacca They deconstructed the male gaze so well that sadly no one turned up to see Birds of Prey judging by the very soft box office opening.
ItchyBacca Should’ve done both. 🤷🏼♂️
Margot Robbie is the only attractive actress in the ensemble.
If the point is not to notice how good she looks in the process, why select one of the world's best looking women to play the role? That's rhetorical because we all know the answer, unless we're pretending to praise a movie for its feminist bona fides.
Enjoyed this article & the film. I’m excited to see more discussion around the many things done differently about this movie re:the superhero genre, it felt like I didn’t process everything in one go. Need to see it again!
Claudette of the writer of this piece - did anyone there read this article before CLICKING the PRINT button - Harley is not dressed in a revealing OUTFIT here? Zipped down to a state of undress? In the last film, she smashes a window & YOU mad bc of the POV of a camera?
I just loved how MargotRobbie played this one. She just got into this character so well. She is such an awesome versatile actress.
ItchyBacca Ok, good. Yeah.
ItchyBacca And Males won’t be gazing at ‘Birds of Prey’ either!
Ciara Wardlow - (Back to film school with you - if you are going to use FEMINIST logic to mark a film. As what of PLOT, Character development, climax, three acts structure, or is Quack who coins some term - is what you are to use to deconstruct 1000s of years of storytelling?
How’d that work out? Did every woman go see it?
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Yeah, it deconstructed it all right. There aren't any males gazing at this movie. Or anyone else for that matter. LOL!!!
ok, nerd.
down to 81% now. no cut/paste needed for this 1st page screen snip
Oh they are pretending to have a plot this time, how novel!
she cemented her as Live-Action Harley Quinn Just as Ryan Reynolds did with Deadpool
she looks hot as hell in this movie💋
No wonder why it made no money
This is about to make some people mad and I’m excited for it
So surprising that the dis tweets are all from men who must be threatened by a womans take on 'their' beloved genre! For me, who LOVES explosions and kick ass fight scenes, this is a film I can't wait to see and ask to be considered for the Sequel!!
And it can’t even do that well.
Given that Harley is we-the-jury crazy who'd throw axes at you for teh lulz, why would anybody look at her in that manner?
In case you wondered what would come of a generation of women’s studies majors moved into the only media that will have them.
I can t wait to see
It's with this type off narrative, this movie is floppin
It is no different than all the other trash movies that were made with the expressed desire to promote feminazism. Get woke, go broke.
lol what? The film has been refilmed so much and patched up that I dont think theres any deliberate style anymore its kinda all accidental. saying it doesnt focus on her looks when she has like 50 costumes compared to the other female stars having to look drab in comparison? okay
Spin it, spin and spin then spin some more. We're buying it. 🙄
What is “profoundly different” from other movies is the huge stacks of cash that it isn’t making. I guess when Heath Ledger’s Joker burned all that cash, it was from Warner Bros. Birds of Prey budget.
Yeah and it’s bombing.
Quiin bitch Queen
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