Analyzing the Director Mimi Leder

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I think if it were a man directing...Julia and Devoe would be romantically involved.
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It's a subtle detail, but the civilian train sequence has a woman breast feeding. I've always wondered if that was Leder's idea. For the most part, I think Leder did a really good job on this film, and even as a guy, I consider this one of my favorite action movies ever. I agree with the earlier point that a male director would have probably given us the "obligatory sex/makeout scene." The movie is much more about their working relationship and shows how Devoe and Kelly both need each other in order to stop the terrorist. Both come into the problem with only half of the right questions and answers, so neither could successfully do this on their own.

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I didn't know it was directed by a woman director until I read this thread...

If a man had been directing then Nicole Kidman's character would have been wearing a mini-skirt and running around in at least three inch spiked heels. Oh and the shirts she wore would have been tight fitting and cut low to display a lot of cleavage. Instead she was wearing conservative, not tight fitting pants suits with appropriate blouses as well as flats. Even when she wore a skirt it was just above the knees, with a loose blouse and even somewhat untucked. While she was wearing make-up I have known many a woman who had no noticeable need for make up (great eyelashes and lip color on their own) so one could make the assumption that she wasn`t really wearing any.

The two main characters would have had gratuitous and pretty explicit sex when they were in Austria checking out the trucking company if this had been directed by a man.

Being a member of the female nerd herd myself who happens to be well endowed with great legs (so I am told) and scarily smart (told by many) I found Kidman's character to be very credible. I worked in the nuke world and with many PhDs as well as those army special forces officer types. While people have panned the relationship between Kidman and Clooney I could see it as very real. He did have more experience than she did in terrorism but he acknowledged in may small ways the experience and knowledge she brought to the fight. He also did not denigrate her repeatedly for being female.

All told.... you could tell this was directed by a woman and not a man.