Talk:Final girl
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Minor quibble: Were films such as "Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street" really films with a predominately male audience? MinorEdit June 30, 2005 00:44 (UTC)
- you're right. maybe remove the word "predomionantly"... from the second link: Although Clover doesn't claim that these woman are feminist representations of women, she acknowledges their role on a deeper level instead of writing them off as one dimensional damsels in distress, seeing within the Final Girl an evolving woman who learns to not just run and scream but actually fight back and represent female empowerment which the male audience can then identify with. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Niz (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Androgynous name?
Wikipedia's list of final girls strongly disputes that final girls "often [have] an androgynous name." I only count a handful in the entire lengthy list. I would remove this line unless we can find more proof to the contrary. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MaxVeers (talk • contribs) .
- Actually, that's one of Clover's rules. But Clover holds that a "final girl" need not be final or a girl, so it's a lot more vague than usually asserted. Шизомби 18:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Phallic appropriation?
Could someone please explain this? Usually I just ignore red (or blue) words that need a dictionary to understand, but the assertion that final girls take up weapons to have a penis-like (?) appendage strikes me as being somewhat silly; my figuring was that they did it to avoid being killed.66.133.180.22 20:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] and then again
In many episodes of The Avengers, the Villain targets a group of people (scientists who worked on project X, directors of corporation Y, witnesses to event Z) – of whom Steed and Cathy/Emma/Tara save exactly one. —Tamfang 04:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
