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Originally Posted by The Great Owl
It's strange, but the women in most of Spielberg's movies do not exude any real sex appeal at all. I do not know if this is simply because of Spielberg's intent to show movies from a boy's treehouse club perspective, where girls were not yet sexualized in our eyes, or if it's an intention to portray strong females that are not objectified. Karen Allen in Raiders of the Lost Ark is attractive to me simply because of her spunky nature, but she's not overtly sexualized. The sexiest female in a Spielberg movie is Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Actually, the sexiest is Ashley Scott's purple-haired love android in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, but she's only shown for two seconds in the film.
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YES! Great point. Great great point here. Has anyone else realized just how under-sexualized the women are in Spielberg's films? I truly think this 67 year old man is still almost as innocent as a 12 year old boy. Oh, how I fantasized seeing Cate Blanchett's character in
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to take off her pants. I dig those kind of sexy women in films as opposed to Kate Capshaw in
The Temple of Doom. But what is up with Steven Allan Spielberg? Why does this director avoid mature and adult romance in his films? It seems like he never got out of the 1950s in terms of ethics and morality (which I admire). I suppose I highly respect him for avoiding the objectification of women. I'm sure plenty of feminists love Spielberg for his portrayal of women in his films. Maybe he made a secret pact with many of these feminists back in the 1970s so he wouldn't offend them ever. Okay, I'm not allowed to get political here. Must stay on cinema topics (I don't want to get banned or anything). Anyway, good post.