In the first movie she is a dumb slut who can't make up her mind about what she wants. In this movie she is constantly dropping pearls of wisdom on Duane every time they end up alone together. I realize that it is 30 years later, but what is it that has supposedly made her so savvy that she knows all about what Duane is going through. She has been living in Europe, but she acts like she knows all about how to live in this tiny Texas town.
shareShe wasn't a 'dumb slut' in the first movie, just young, inexperienced and spoilt. Far from stupid, she was clever, manipulative, ambitious, and ran rings around the slower witted, predictable boys.
There are a full three decades of life and experience between the wild, spoilt teenage Jacy and the sadder, wiser Jacy of the second movie.
When we see her again in 'Texasville' she has grown up, developed and evolved...unlike the men of the town. It seems to be McMurtry's view (and Bogdanovitch's) that the women of the town achieve emotional maturity, unlike the men who are stuck in arrested development and have remained emotionally adolescent for more than thirty years.
This is also true with Duane's wife Karla (with whom Jacy has an immediate affinity), the shrewd mother holding a family together while her immature husband and son run wild. The girls of the town grow up, acquire wisdom, raise their men-folk's children, and have to suffer the behavior of men who have largely remained boys.
This is consistent through all three of McMurtry's novels about the people of this town.
Spoiled equals stupid. Next you'll be telling us that Paris Hilton and Princess Di are/were smart.
Spoiled rich brats should be lampooned and excoriated whether they're male or female. Just because someone is a woman it doesn't make their spoiled bratty nature anymore 'just'.
I'm not sure I'd lump Princess Di in with Paris Hilton that way.
Get the facts first - you can distort them later!share
Men stopped reading books, for the most part...they play videogames and watch football etc...so most writers started writing for women, who still read books, at least to some degree. And so female characters became more...dominant in books
shareThis got me thinking: where is the YA fiction for boys?
In my day, most of the "for boys" stuff was by Brits. Or older stuff like Twain, London & ancient Greek tragedies. The gothic/sci-fi stuff was older, too. Total black hole for contemporary stuff. No wonder they were turning to manga & vidya games.
Quick search online for modern boy-friendly material suggests Percy Jackson, Maze Runner, Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow.