For writer/artist/filmmaker Susan diRende, Hollywood movies retain elements from the days where men played all the roles, male and female.
As the director of a women’s film festival, Broad Humor, my taste in female screen characters went through a profound change. I hadn’t known how skewed my perceptions were until I didn’t see anything but movies by women for nearly 10 years. I was like those people who are colorblind suddenly getting the glasses that let them see the full spectrum. It find most Hollywood movies unwatchable because they’re so obviously missing an essential element: women as they actually are.
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