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If made today,would the crying scene be cut out?


Depictions of female emotional frailty in a mainstream movies has become almost taboo in today's films.

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no it wouldnt ,

Stop trying to get fellow anti-woke patriots upset about an imaginary something you just pulled out of your ass.

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I think it would.

What is the last mainstream film that you can name that had a several woman crying in front of man?

Strong woman is in.

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Dammit I'm useless at these "when was the last .." questions!
Its when they come up I realise i havent seen anything recent !

Can someone help me out?
recent films?
with women in (which is all of them thanks to the so called agenda)

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Relax man, just pointing out that most scripts today write woman differently in mainstream movies than they did 30 years ago.

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The only two recent films i can think of that ive seen are
Hacksaw Ridge
The Outpost
both war films , coincidently , weird as i dont watch a lot of war films.
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Both had big strong white men kicking non white peoples asses!
and not a women in sight!
ah , the world order is restored , white man in his rightful place dominating the screen, and the non white man.
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Did any of those new ghostbuster 2016 women cry at any point?

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Only when no one went and saw their movie....

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Ooh , I've thought of another 'recent' film I've seen
Arctic (2018)
Hero white man does hero survival things in the arctic, whilst saving defenless injured incapacitated weak (and ethnic!) woman from certain death.

I'm not "cherry picking " these to be examples , that and the 2 war films i mentioned are genuinly the only 3 films i can think of ive seen made 2018 or later

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no, wait, ive seen "Peppermint" too, thats about a strong woman . A weak woman who got strong. Good film.
I'm willing to bet if you go look at the posts on that page there'll be some butthurt whiteboys whinging about it.

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How about in Yellowstone (I know, itโ€™s a series and not a movie) where the ultimate strong, alpha female (Beth), cries when with one of the strongest male characters on the show (Rip)? Beth showing the range of emotions she does makes her even more interesting to me.

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The bottom line is we will never know.

It is a great and funny scene, the most memorable in the movie.

But studios prescreen movies and are highly influenced by audience reaction, much more so now than in the past.

There is also the question on whether the scene would even be WRITTEN AND FILMED, since the director would know a thing or two about the power of pre-screened audience's to scratch scenes.

All it would take for this scene to be aced, would be a minority of women complaining (30%?) that the scene put women in a bad light.

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no it wouldnt ,

Stop trying to get fellow anti-woke patriots upset about an imaginary something you just pulled out of your ass.


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Strawman!

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It's a made up right wing boogieman! Where do they get such outrageous ideas. You Tube probably.

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It's not the depiction of a woman feeling her emotions in public that would be a problem, it would be the way the scene gets a laugh by suggesting their are differences between men and women. That's what the clones can't tolerate.

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Today they'd reverse it.

The coach would be crying over something, since he was a troubled guy when the story began.

Then one of the tough women would tell him, "There's NO crying in base...ball!"

On another note, they might as well take the line out, because can we imagine anybody on earth delivering that line like Hanks did--all whine, annoyance and surprise at the same time with that uptick in tone at the end?

Nobody could possibly do that justice, haha. So yes, leave it out.

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Anything showing women and their biological nature in a movie about female empowerment would likely be cut so you're right.

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Sadly, I think it probably would.

I think that if this film were made today, all the Girls League players would be portrayed as stoic, hardened ballplayers without weakness or vulnerability. It would be strongly implied that these women were actually better ballplayers than the actual MLB Players of that time, who were forced off to war.

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Depends which 'crying' scene--no they might not have had Evelyn crying after receiving (admittedly tough) feedback from the coach. She probably had worked/volunteered very little with men prior to this time. This was her first 'experience' besides talking with her husband about anything.

But yes, they would keep in the crying after a telegram is received about a husband dying in the war. Because this was not done for 'slapstick'. This was a 'reality' during world war II and even Dugan is concerned by the news. They would not have cut that.

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I think it would be a go, because all the Wokies who get worked up about this shit are all pro-crying. Theyr're all for men being able to express their feelings the way women always have.

And that's the thing about the scene as played in 1992... she ISN'T wrong to cry. Why the hell shouldn't she cry? It's not upsetting anyone but him or hurting their performance, it's just unmanly. And he isn't with a man's team, he's on a women's team where the rules of group.behavior are a bit different, and he's the one who needs to adjust his expectations. And he kind of knows it, Hanks plays the scene with a touch of uncertainty, as it if gets both outraged and wondering if it's ridiculous to tell a straight woman to man up.

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In 2024 they would be crying and telling reporters that the coach was making threatening micro-expressions.

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Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) would be accused of Toxic Masculinity.

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