celeb news Jennifer Lawrence says Hunger Games was the first action movie with a female lead

[Nip Tuck]

I kinda see her point tbh I mean yes there was obviously successful female-led action movies pre-THG but I feel like the way Katniss is portrayed vs them is very different.

 

Also none of them are on the level of THG. I mean someone in here mentioned Underworld which all movies combined is still like less than one THG movie.

[favorite crime]

y'all need to touch some grass. yeah she should have thought a moment longer before saying that but her statement literally harmless. and hunger games was the first female led action film/series to compete with the male ones. the highest grossing female led action film before that grossed like 300mil like bffr. and her point about men not going to watch female protagonists is absolutely true

[HRH]

She's an icon, she's a legend and she is the moment. Let me go stream mother! for the 5th time.

[thismoment]

maybe she meant that it was the biggest franchise with a female lead 

[Gui Blackout]

18 minutes ago, Nip Tuck said:

I kinda see her point tbh I mean yes there was obviously successful female-led action movies pre-THG but I feel like the way Katniss is portrayed vs them is very different.

This is what people are missing from this. All the movies that were posted here are very different from THG. They are either very masculine action films where the female is overtly sexualized and violent, or the regular final girl horror film.

 

THG put female empowerment in a much more fresh and nounced context, and it had a lot of romantic elements. It was a female lead written by and for other women, while other female leads were always written from a male gaze.

 

Not to mention the film being primarily targeted to young adults, there was no footprint of that in Hollywood at the time.

Edited December 8, 2022 by Gui Blackout

[MonsterJohn]

that's why her career ended. insufferable 

[Assassin]

did she basically imply that she paved the way for Viola Davis to star in The Woman King?? LMAO

[faceclef]

10 hours ago, Walk_Away21 said:

SCREAMING at her year long comeback PR campaign getting derailed in one day  @Reverse Warholian @GraceRandolph Her PR people must be fuming.

I honestly done think they're fuming, she just misspoke. There is 0% chance a young female actress doesn't know about all these movies

[#Beautiful]

shes never been known for her smarts so this is on brand for her. mess

[#Beautiful]

33 minutes ago, Wizard said:

lara been croft 

 

[#Beautiful]

19 hours ago, Sugden said:

i mean it was the first really successful one, thats probably what she meant

 

not even remotely true

[perfillusion]

People saying it was the first successful one   and the first one where she wasn't sexualized  Both wrong. 
 

 

[Poxy]

On 12/7/2022 at 9:11 AM, superben said:

Remember that time when she tried to act clumsy and super down-to-earth  

 

Her pick-me manner is worse than her acting.

Flashbacks to the “I loved pizza!!!” Era of tumblr and her falling at the Oscar’s 

[NausAllien]

There aren't that many female-led action movies, but there are enough to make her statement categorically false.

 

[tachiwaka]

14 hours ago, Gui Blackout said:

Not to mention the film being primarily targeted to young adults, there was no footprint of that in Hollywood at the time.

That is what I thought she was saying, since she was talking about THG. From a teen young adult movie perspective, she’s right. Parents were taking their kids to these movies - they weren’t taking kids to Kill Bill and Salt 

[Trash]

On 12/7/2022 at 9:45 AM, ArtForFreedom said:

 

 

 

 

 

1985

This legend

 

[mystery]

She clarified her statement to the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Jennifer Lawrence Clarifies Remark About Female-Led Action Movies: “It Came Out Wrong”
 

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, Lawrence said, “That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all. I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film. What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels. And I meant that with Viola — to blow past these old myths that you hear about … about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing. But it was my blunder and it came out wrong. I had nerves talking to a living legend.”

[RunBoyRun]

People taking this mispoken term from this amazing interview shows their lack of smarts. Not hers. She's incredibly intelligent. Just not perfect. She made several points. Her career is far from over. 25 million for Don't Look Up just last year. As if that's a "career is over" type of thing. 

[Rafael]

Althought she did word it badly, I love how people are trying to drag her by bring examples for all these female action led films where 99% of them are women being "sexual" or "sex symbols" in a very manly type of stories as if men wouldn't want to see that.

 

Hunger Games, if you thought about it, is a story focus solely on a woman, a child almost, not sexualized at all, with a "love triangle" where the woman is at the center, it doesn't have crazy shot gun actions like boys usually like, and STILL it was tremendouly successfull between all genders.

 

She has made SEVERAL points referencing Hunger Games for that... she just word it terribly by saying it was the first. I hope that now that she explained herself, it was the nervers, she knows she wasn't the first, you guys can stop being idiots about it. 

[Vermillion]

18 hours ago, perfillusion said:

People saying it was the first successful one   and the first one where she wasn't sexualized  Both wrong. 
 

 

Ooph. Says it all really. 

[Sweet Sexy Savage]

Katniss Everdeen was sexualized idk why yall are still justifying her??

[Rafael]

48 minutes ago, Sweet Sexy Savage said:

Katniss Everdeen was sexualized idk why yall are still justifying her??

How was Katniss sexualized in comparison to all those females roles people are throwing around to drag her???

Make it make sense.

 

Yall are doing waaaay to much to try to drag her more than what was needed for something that was clearly an honest mistake.

[ArtForFreedom]

11 hours ago, Trash said:

This legend

 

[Elusive Chanteuse]

On 12/8/2022 at 12:35 AM, Bey'Knight said:

So what should they name? HG is a franchise movie. Dunno what you think you were doing with this post. 

Her whole comment about women leads was accurate 

[Queen of Wembley]

She's horrid. Remember when she joked about destroying a Native Hawaiian holy site. Racist AND stupid.