I'm sorry if has already been discussed but I just finished watching the movie and i wondering why there were no female bureau agents? did I miss something? I was pretty tired while watching, so forgive me if this sounds stupid. it just bugged me through out the whole movie.
shareWell if it makes you feel better, they are probably not men either. As I see it, they seem to resemble angles in their function and that would make them androgynous.
And one more thing, it's been discussed in other threads but the Chairman is most likely portrayed in a feminine character and is most probably the bartender.
So there you have your balance.
I suppose in this cut of the film you could argue its the bartender; but technically the chairman is not shown
You are correct about the chairman being female though; they cast a female to play the role of chairman, but the scene was cut
The main characters are clearly told that everyone has seen "The Chairman" at some time or another in their lives, as either a male OR female, and they just don't know it. So "It" is neither. It appears however It wants to, because it isn't human.
shareWhy does it matter if there aren't any females? What difference would it make? Just curious, not being a smartass...
shareBecause some people need everything to be politically correct and cater to every race/gender/orientation
If there had been females than the next question would be why are there no homosexual bureau team members? Why wasn't my race/gender/orientation/religion catered too??!?!?!?
But yea; it doesn't matter except to thin skinned people
Sounds like a different kind of political correctness, Hollywood cutting out the role of Shohreh Aghdashloo as the Chairman because she was born Muslim.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/01/entertainment/la-et-mn-aghdashloo-conversation-20130602
She got "special thanks" in the credits and ended up on the cutting room floor, supposedly over George Nolfi's objections. That is a rotten shame. Of course it makes no sense for the bartender to be the chairman bec. if so, she would never have handed Norris the note from Mitchell.
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You do realise that according to every conventional Christian theology, in the eyes of God you are worth exactly as much as her?
shareBest reply to a racist I've ever read on this site!
Cheers!
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This is why these christian type people really piss me off they such hypocrites they conveniently forget stuff like that when it suits them.
shareIt's rare that I say this - I'm a big proponent for artists first - but I agree somewhat with the production company. I disagree with their motivation (who is "allowed" to play God), but I agree with the result. Meeting "the Chairman" wouldn't work. The imagination is more powerful than the filmstock; when we can create our own ideas of what/who the Chairman is in the film (did we even see this being at any point...? maybe...) it's far better than what the film could have conjured up. So, yeah, I think that was a good edit.
shareKunovega said:
"Because some people need everything to be politically correct and cater to every race/gender/orientation
If there had been females than the next question would be why are there no homosexual bureau team members? Why wasn't my race/gender/orientation/religion catered too??!?!?!?"
Nah. I think there's definitely a difference between wanting to be "catered to(o)" and simply wanting to "see oneself represented and visible in entertainment culture". A world of difference.
Nice use of multiple question marks/exclamation points, btw. They make you seem young.
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There is no issue with "seeing one's self represented and visible in entertainment culture"...BUT that does not mean that every group of people need to be represented in every damned movie you see. That's not how the real world is and it shouldn't be how movies are either. Want some examples?
Walk into a black neighborhood and you aren't likely to see many asians.
Walk into a Curves fitness and you won't see any men.
Walk into a subway station in Bejing and your not likely to see many white folks.
So you taking up the approach that you should see yourself represented in every damned movie you see IS being overly politically correct. And as far as this movie goes, how are women not represented? One of the 2 leads in the movie is a WOMAN. Are we now splitting hairs? Oh there's a woman but she's not one of the agents? OMG the travesty!
How did you get to be so much smarter than the rest of us?
shareYou're surprised? Why was Morgan Freeman, a guy, chosen to play god in "Evan Almighty" (a truly horrible farce)?
My guess is that the filmmakers never gave this a second thought, but if they did, then they presumed that it would be easier for beings who looked like men to intimidate the lowly humans into kowtowing to their grand plan. And they'd be right. Unless the Adjustors were NUNS they wouldn't scare me! (Hmmm..there's another movie there, perhaps...!).
Let's face it: woman have a LONG way to go before they're routinely hired as cops or even security guards, much less monitors of humanity! lol It's totally sexist, so you have to disregard it (along with the hats and the lame premise altogether), in order to enjoy the performances of Matt Damon and Emily Blunt as mere mortals who buck the...whatever it is...system!
Don't get me wrong...
It might be unbelievable,
But let's not say so long
Hey, The Pretenders! Took me a second to figure it out. Thanks for the earworm.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I beg to differ, but women are routinely hired as cops and security guards!
My late wife was going through the Police Academy when I met her in the 1980's. And after she left the PD, she was always getting jobs as security, both armed and unarmed. She would routinely walk into an office and walk out with a new job. She made it seem effortless.
Back to the movie, I think that since the adjusters are implied to be angels, they would all appear as men, since that is how they all appear in the Bible. Whether their true appearance is androgynous or not, the Bible says they don't get married. So they are either all male, or all asexual.
My two cents.
WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! This movie is sexist, WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! This movie doesn't meet the OP's PC criteria, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
What a miserable life to life in a PC nightmare, literally offended by everything.
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And what's wrong?
shareBecause it wouldn't fit the image that is portrayed in the movie. The bureau is portrayed as 1950s institute and agents are shown as typical gmen of that era. Women simply don't fit this retro image, because they typically weren't part of it back then.
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