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DetlefK

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1. "Pacific Rim" inspired me to a different measurement for women in movies.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:20 AM
Feb 2015

No, I'm not talking about the "Mako Mori"-test named after that female, asian character. When Pacific Rim came out, it was hailed as a feminist movie because it was an action-movie with a strong female main-character. Bullshit. Mako Mori was just another ankle-clinger for a good-looking, brooding, muscular, aryan guy in his 30s.

But Mako Mori is useful as the anti-thesis: What if the gender-roles were switched?

Mako Mori is a 20-something female nerd secretly lusting after and creeping at an older, battle-hardened male veteran.

What if Mako were a 20-something male nerd secretly lusting after and creeping at an older, battle-hardened female veteran? And in the end she falls for this guy who was yapping after her like a puppy the whole time?

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