MovieChat Forums > Community (2012) Discussion > Screaming.

Screaming.

posted 11 years ago by rushknight
3 replies | jump to latest

Maybe I'm just a chauvinist at heart, but it really bothers me to the point of great annoyance when women scream all the time in movies. Don't get me wrong, there are places when screaming is appropriate, and then there are places where the screaming is excessive and just irritating as all hell.

If you are being attacked and you are trying to find help, screaming is great. If it's obvious that screaming will not bring help, STOP SCREAMING and do something more useful like thinking about how you can get yourself out of your situation.

I'm sure many horror directors feel that screaming females bring out the terror, with the additional bonus of making the men watching feel more manly as they think to themselves, "It's not what I'D do. I would do this. Silly ladies, always so weak. Hurr durr..."

Call me crazy, but somehow I just expect women to be more self-reliant and resourceful, ESPECIALLY if the situation calls for it.

[–] HeyRick 11 years ago

Uh, it's a cliché-laden horror flick, I'm surprised her clothes didn't instantly fall apart too...

I agree with the screaming thing, but I guess a resourceful woman that gets herself together and sorts it out is a whole different genre. In this, the role is to just... you know... waaaaaaaaaahhhhh! aaaaaargh! YAAAAAAAAA! AAAAIIIIIIII!!!! [etc]

[–] Gambit771 10 years ago

Have you seen women in real life? Are you telling me most wouldn't scream all the time.

I don't think the usual sexist claims of lets make women look weak (although no-one makes these claims when the men are actually portrayed as weak and everyone in the film points it out and that is a DELIBERATE part of the film) apply here but to turn her into a jane rambo killing loads of men (not sexist) is far a far more worn trope. Mostly because it's a forced feminist message shoved down your throat and badly executed.

Not saying the screaming wasn't annoying but I doubt it was a deliberate chauvinistic dig at women.

In fact makes a change from the spoilt high school girl who suddenly becomes a guerilla warfare expert and takes down men twice her size who have been using violence their whole lives.

[–] mobstar1967 10 years ago

strongly disagree with the OP
9 out of 10 times its the woman who is the lone survivor in horror films... there is always the one girl who's got a good head on her shoulders and is not too slutty that seems to make all the right moves outlasting and outwitting her male counterparts....
I will agree that excessive screaming is irritating... the Character of "Jackie" in Jaws II comes to mind...Will that fish eat her already.!!!