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As mentioned on the Thing thread, John Carpenters movie has no women in it at all. Not even incidentally, not even extras walking miles in the background (well - it is in frozen barren wastes). Are there any other single sex films out there. What is the feminist thing?

That said I think the dog is a bitch.

― Pete, Monday, 19 August 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

seeing as the tentacles are a bit like straws, the thing itself must be a woman, by nabisco's law

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

also in the director's cut there's a scene where it's in the bathroom putting on lipstick: it was cut cz it takes five hours as it keeps sprouting new mouths

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

didn't someone analyse it as some kind of fear-of-female-sexuality type movie meaning the thing is uber-female?

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

almost certainly they did — in fact anne billson discusses this for a page. as she points out the analysis seems a bit weird though, viz:

i. u touched a gurl = u r gay aaargh!!
ii. *flamethrower on*

norris's chest is the best vagina dentata EVAH, and that head-spider based on doré's arachne replaces a woman's naked body (doré) (see thing thread) w.norris's upside down head

billson quotes ezra pound: the brane = a huge clot of seminal fluid which wimmin r gagging 4!!??!!??

i think the film is good becuz it runs rings round a simplistic gendered analysis (eg it works just as well as an allegory of the response to gays in the military... )

i. i am rational i have no genitals
ii. *looks down*
iii. aaargh!!
iv. *flamethrower on*

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

are there women in dark star? or that other one where robots huey dewey and louis tend the garden pod? silent running?

haha there are no "women" in starship troopers

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

or ANY verhoeven flick!!

come back to the five and dime jimmy dean jimmy dean is all women

secret honour is all man!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

'Glengarry Glen Ross'? 'The Wages of Fear'? 'Full Metal Jacket'? There are loads, I'm sure...

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't there a vietcong soldier-girl in FMJ? (I think the Verhoeven-rule applies to D.Mamet also, heh.)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't I love you long time three dollar FMJ?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Come Back To the five & Dime has a bloke in it (checks IMDB - Mark Patton plays Joe).

Dewey is played by a woman (don't suppose this counts but I never knew that it was written by Michael Cimino and Stephen Bochco).

The computer - Mother - in Dark Star is female (see above).

Secret honor = monologue = duh!!!

― Pete, Monday, 19 August 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Wages of Fear features Vera Clouzot and Darling Legitimus

I live next door(ish) to the actor who played Crazy Earl in FMJ. He is going to paint our stairwell when we get the electrix fiXoRed. Vivian Kubrick is in it uncredited, as well as the hookers and the girl-sniper in the red dress (= the thing again, but in a way lamer movie).

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Planet of the Apes.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah. i forgot in jimmy dean, you see joe in a mirror-shot (i think he's a dream or a memory, i don't think he speaks)

computers = robots = monsters = the vietcong = girls hurrah

sebastiane!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

'Escape from Alcatraz'? 'The Birdman of Alcatraz'?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Lorca's "La casa de Bernarda Alba" includes no men at all. There is some film version shot in the 80s by Spanish director Mario Camus

― Arantxa, Monday, 19 August 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

D'oh - 'Twelve Angry Men'!!! (Has anyone ever tried a Hawks-like gender swap w/ this one?)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

(i think in the scene on the steps at the end of 12Angry Men, there's bound to be a woman walk past)

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

the movie of bernada alba is fkn terrific!! i reviewed it fr nme (blimey those were the days)

(i think there may be a non-speaking male role though: someone who comes to the door? it is certainly the entire point of the movie that it contains no active men...)

someone shd do a structuralist comparison of 12 angry men and bernarda alba

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Withnail And I has no female speaking parts. I think?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't there some speaking little old ladies in the tea room scene?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

D'OH! OK, there are no GOOD women characters. But that was not the question... I'll be quiet now.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

someone shd do a structuralist comparison of withnail and i with something that is quite good and also funny

― ahahahahahaha (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

There are no major female speaking parts in Withnail & I. The sum total of female speaking parts are the Farmer's Mother, Miss Blenehassit, and the schoolgirls who say "up yours grandad".

Does Ghosts of the Civil Dead have any women in it?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

SCRUBBERS!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, 12 Angry Men has women walking past at the end. This question is not about speaking parts, its about actually being in shot. This kyboshes nearly any film which goes out into the street (and a surprising number of war films too). Mark is right about Alba too - there is a non-speaking male part.

I think there has been an all female version of 12 Angry Men, recently there was an all lawyer version (odd idea). Hawks takes too much credit for the Front Page gender swop - there are at least three newspaper films with female leads in pre-His Girl Friday and turning it into partially a rom-com was always going to up the stakes. Not saying it isn't one of the best films ever made, but why should we praise him for something that the movies of the day suggested when there are so many decent things we could credit him with.

― Pete, Monday, 19 August 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

yay scrubbers!! => i looked up poor cow which i always confuse w.scrubbers but pc has men in

i assume there must be ambient women early on in moby-dick (in which the "rubber-dentata-thing" role is played by a great white whale obv)

querelle has women in, surprisingly: golly i haven't seen that for 20 years!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

naked lunch cz in burroughs women = alien inseXoRs (unlike alien inseXoRs, which = typewriters)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe I think the film Scrubbers does have a couple of men in it. In fact I was just being Richard E Grant shouting at the schoolgirls...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Stalag 17

― The Actual Mr. Jones (actual), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the adventures of milo and otis=no men/women.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It's been a few years since I saw it, but... All Quiet On The Western Front?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

We could have the 'Luke Skywalker Is Technically An Alien Lifeform' debate here... but let's not.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

there is a female witness in 12 angry men, who has a speaking role.

"the women" from 1939 famously has no men in it. and that's with over 130 roles.

― angela, Monday, 19 August 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

AQotWF has lots of women bit-parts

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

does the witness appear in the film version? or do they just talk about her? (does she even appear in the play??)

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

She's behind you!!

― that's from the panto version (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

yep, she's in the film version (the henry fonda one). she's grilled about whether she was wearing her glasses at a certain point or not.

― angela, Monday, 19 August 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

d'you know, i'm beginning to think i just imagined that female witness, as she's not listed on the imdb page for "12 angry men". perhaps the jury just talk about whether or not she was wearing her glasses and i filled in a whole scene about it in my head. heads, not reliable things at all.

― angela, Monday, 19 August 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

HA! Graham's catch post thing worked! MINDMELD, for I wrote...

are you ABOSLUTELY sure? ALL the action is in the jury room, and i don't think witnesses are allowed in to be grilled by jurists are they? also she doesn't get a credit (THis is all academic, as there are women walking by on steps as ptee says)

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

12 angry puss-in-bootses

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray for Graham's thing - it won't stop me posting but...

Isn't that a bloke who is talking about the glasses? (Weedy weasel faced fella). Or was it just an episode of Perry Mason.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Though it didn't catch Mark S's gag the second time....

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, are we never gonna get the "someone else already said that" unique post thingummy. shame.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

repetition is the soul of wit

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

repetition is the soul of wit

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

(I rigged it so that you only get it if you click the button twice, or get to the Inserting Message page with the back button. If you reload the page and type the same message again, it doesn't bother you)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

someone already said that... twunts.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ack!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Some did "12 Angry Women" in Chicago theater. I kept asking people whether it just "12 Angry Men" with women acting, or if someone had actually written a different text that was specifically meant to use and address the sex of the jurors; nobody knew.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

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But some of them are clearly the kind of dinosaurs that will bear little dinosaurs when they grow up, and some are clearly the kind that will go down the pub and play darts until closing time.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone for whom I've ruined The Land Before Time by revealing that they all make it through.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

But they don't!!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Woops.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Nadgers. Well, I haven't seen it in a long time. Possibly since the sixties, before I was born (It's the land before time, it doesn't care).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew it was released in 1988.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

And I can't spell Bluth - oh, look, I can!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I said, it doesn't care. IT'S BEFORE TIME.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

*picks up Andrews rattle and places it gingerly back in pram*

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I was emphasising, not shouting. I am perfectly calm. Like a lake. Of coffee.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I know. We are both quite calm people - I just wanted to patronise you. And it didn't work. Bah!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Lawrence of Arabia has women, they just don't speak.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 24 February 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Beyond the Walls have any women in it?

― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Friends have any men in it? Or doesn’t television count?

― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

tons of war movies, that one with Rock Hudson, George Peppard and others (damn, who else is in that???) Tobruk, I think it's called. Don't remember any women.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

beau travail = my favourite

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Technically, LOTR only showed female elves and hobbits, i.e. not human women

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Boys in the Band
Das Boot
Android
Blue Boy Fisting Compilation #57

― jean paul, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah... Papillon should also be mentioned.

― jean paul, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Reservoir Dogs has no women with speaking roles, the only female character (the car driver) appears for like half a minute before she gets shot.

I think the fact that the father in 8 Women is only shown in glimpses and never speaks was deliberate - it's all about the women.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)

Has 12 Angry Men been mentioned? Probably.

Technically, LOTR only showed female elves and hobbits, i.e. not human women

How about Eowyn?

― chap, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Stranger by the Lake

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 March 2014 21:54 (eleven years ago)

Rare Exports has no women.

― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Friday, 7 March 2014 21:55 (eleven years ago)

the Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, all women

(4, right?)

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 March 2014 22:06 (eleven years ago)

All is Lost

― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 7 March 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

― Mark G, Friday, 7 March 2014 22:24 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDwRmBCANvE

― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 7 March 2014 22:26 (eleven years ago)

I was gonna say Sleuth, but I think it has a brief scene with two women in it. The 2007 remake, OTOH, has none.

― Tuomas, Friday, 7 March 2014 22:34 (eleven years ago)

I think movies with no humans at all are a different thing altogether. We had some discussion on those in this thread:

Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?

― Tuomas, Friday, 7 March 2014 22:38 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Stand By Me is really close

― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 19:50 (nine years ago)

only women are in the barfing scene and I think Will Wheaton's mom at the dinner table iirc

― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 19:51 (nine years ago)

the duke of burgundy has no men in it, i believe

― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Monday, 1 August 2016 20:09 (nine years ago)

chevalier has no onscreen women! and it's directed by a woman

― imago, Monday, 1 August 2016 20:20 (nine years ago)

A Field in England

― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Monday, 1 August 2016 21:18 (nine years ago)

ooh good one

― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:30 (nine years ago)

haha oh yeah. it's only my favourite film of the last decade

― imago, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:31 (nine years ago)

and it's written by a woman, too

― imago, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:32 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

The mermaid effs up The Lighthouse (tho she doesn't get to speak)

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:42 (five years ago)

if she did speak she might have come out with something less crummy than "suck off every speck of rust till all them nails sparkle like a sperm whale's pecker"!

― calzino, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:48 (five years ago)

I was hoping she'd have pointy teeth

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:51 (five years ago)

LOL

but - I thought the bogusness of the dialog was semi-legit inasmuch as both characters are totally bogus from top to bottom - the Willem Dafoe character is a faker who may never even have been to sea - i was half-expecting the camera to pull back at the end and we find that the whole thing has been a delusion on the part of someone who works in eg Popeye's Car Wash

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:56 (five years ago)

that would make it more interesting tbh, but I couldn't lose the feeling it was two bad ham actors just pissing about on a vanity project by an overrated director.

― calzino, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:01 (five years ago)

probably harsh but I felt like it was time stolen watching it.

― calzino, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:02 (five years ago)

I haven't seen Enemy Mine -- does it count?

― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:08 (five years ago)

It was good on a big screen, the sound design is the best part of it. I mean it's too long and largely an empty mash-up of other movies but I enjoyed it. Credit at the end claims the dialogue all comes from Melville and 19th century sailors accounts but idk, yeah it was self-consciously grand guignol but hey for a genre pic it's a change from Comic Wars 27 or whatever

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:08 (five years ago)

lol xp

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:09 (five years ago)

Yeah I for one think this fantastical, gonzo descent into madness needed more serious, relatable dialogue.

― circa1916, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:13 (five years ago)

I'm not sure Eggers knows exactly what he wants, it doesn't go crazy enough imo, tho I did spend the last half hour wondering if kerosene would actually get you pissed

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:16 (five years ago)

I think Eggers comes off as knowing exactly what he wants tbh

― circa1916, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:18 (five years ago)

silent hill was originally written with no prominent male characters (though there were prob always going to be a few men among the cultists). the story i keep hearing is that the studio balked at this and sean bean's and kim coates' characters were written in

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 22:21 (five years ago)

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