tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post7983790447836074454..comments2023-04-11T11:17:47.627-07:00Comments on Ladybrain Feminist Reviews: Because Messages Matter: Apocalypse Now: A Ladybrain ReviewSmallshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643467616474916048noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-38918648094618067872013-02-04T01:04:38.346-08:002013-02-04T01:04:38.346-08:00"I digress, we see lingering shots of the act... "I digress, we see lingering shots of the actresses near naked ... surely if this were to reflect 'reality' the males would be naked too? I rest my case."<br /><br />Sorry but that makes no sense. You know the male gaze is more than ogling women in skimpy outfits, right?<br /><br />In reply to the articule, you do know that a Film can show misogyny and the exploitation of women without condoning it? In Redux there is a scene were the Bunnies are prostituted, in return for fuel for their downed helicopter, the scene which showed the paralells between the young soldiers, and the glamour models, whose lives are both exploited. The scene were the Bunnies are dancing for the troops shows how disconted American society is from the situation in vietnam and how alienated the young soldiers feel. <br /><br />As for Willard, as someone else has pointed out his shooting the vietnamese women is to show how unhinged he is, how his obsession with his mission has dehumanised him and, in parallel to Kurtz, how he is descending into madness. "the horror, the horror!" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-27504637803430706232012-12-30T07:04:30.239-08:002012-12-30T07:04:30.239-08:00So, the actresses are representing Playboy models ...So, the actresses are representing Playboy models who were SENT (how exploitative?!) to Vietnam by their male boss to increase morale of the troops? Maybe in reality this was the case. This serves to demonstrate just how some females are exploited in patriarchal society until their bodies age. Any female with a degree of sense would find something better to do and use their intelligence to achieve as a human being. Anyway, this film goes beyond portraying the boosting morale of Vietnam soldiers. These females are objectified and appear in this film purely to serve as sex objects for male viewers, and this is degrading to all females. It is basically letting us females know how vulnerable we are to rape. I digress, we see lingering shots of the actresses near naked ... surely if this were to reflect 'reality' the males would be naked too? I rest my case. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-66264480621139394012012-08-07T15:17:20.383-07:002012-08-07T15:17:20.383-07:00This film is shot from a male soldiers perspective...This film is shot from a male soldiers perspective. I was a soldier for 20 years and served in three major world conflicts ... fact is I didn't come across too many women during that time. Sure the're there, suffering with the rest, but as a soldier there's not much interaction. Mostly it's guys trying to kill each other. Maybe Copolla got this aspect right.Richard Perrettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-49689549788036180872012-04-23T17:22:25.669-07:002012-04-23T17:22:25.669-07:00I am not the above 'Anonymous' but I felt ...I am not the above 'Anonymous' but I felt obliged to post here in order to elucidate. The 'feminist leanings' of the film are everything you described in the piece and subsequently cited as woman-bashing. The part when the 'bunnies' are on stage is supposed to exemplify the attitude to women in American society; when it gets down to it men want to a. demean women b. have sex with them c. do these two things at the same time. Also there's the tremendously obvious symbolism of the mass crowd vs. the single individuals on stage (patriarchal system sustained by backbone of mass participation).<br /><br />Sorry but the whole point of representing the women in such a way is to HIGHLIGHT their plight, not sustain it. I really really hope you can see this. I don't know whether you understood the film at all... your analysis of Willard shooting the woman is telling. His shooting of her is not supposed to present him as some American Übermensch, but rather as a mentally off-kilter individual whose experiences of war have numbed him both to the society he came from (which is itself patriarchal in nature) and the war he is currently engaged him. Eventually the system created by Kurtz is likened to these and arguably it is here in this deranged society that Willard finds he is most comfortable. The whole idea of this film being some typical-capitalist-warmongering-patriarchal-action 'movie' is frankly absurd and a reading of it as so is deeply deeply flawed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-1661524444390384502011-10-27T11:35:03.275-07:002011-10-27T11:35:03.275-07:00Anon- Do you think you could possibly enlighten th...Anon- Do you think you could possibly enlighten the rest of us with the "feminist leanings" you so clearly observed within the film? <br /><br />That would be an appropriate and welcome response, instead of say, name calling.KBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16999317354951667303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-44824739806912828322011-10-27T07:44:47.363-07:002011-10-27T07:44:47.363-07:00This was a truly awful review. You are supposed to...This was a truly awful review. You are supposed to be a feminist and dont even recognise the feminist leanings of the film. You really lack the intellectual sophistication to analyse this film on any level.Its rabid feminazis like you who give all of feminism a bad name. You took anything involving women in the film as necessarily an intended slight towards them without any real reason. The playboy bunny scene was supposed to highlight the conflicting attitudes towards female sexuality present in American culture as a whole. And btw lets not forget that the vast, vast majority of people who die in wars are MEN, end of story you clown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-25167366024357227312011-08-11T10:42:50.446-07:002011-08-11T10:42:50.446-07:00My good thing you did not screen the Redux version...My good thing you did not screen the Redux version, your head would have exploded. A scene which was cut out of the original movie is the Playboy bunnies, somehow have their helicopter run out of fuel at a M*A*S*H unit which has clearly descended into primal depravity. The scene cuts in as the protagonists land their boat and not to shock but the Bunnies offer their bodies to allow escape from what Coppola clearly wants to assume was a continuous gang rape after the poor girls land at the outpost. When the protagonist meet up in the prositution scene the girls are clearly so traumatized they are delirious and beyond sanity after their trauma. Very disturbing sceneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880488031823128942.post-25072573578097648982011-06-18T08:11:39.116-07:002011-06-18T08:11:39.116-07:00Sorry but this was dreadful. Not only are you crit...Sorry but this was dreadful. Not only are you criticizing a film for maintaining context, but while noting the lack of female lines, you're actively ignoring those that there are. I would suggest you return to the scene where the 'bunny' a term you yourself continue to use in this piece, is talking about her own situation, it's hardly a fanfare for misogyny. Also, you take the already hypothetical idea that the Cambodian woman at the end is Kurz's lover, and then push it further into absurdity by postulating their relationship, without even beginning to consider the context of traditional Cambodian gender roles that have nothing to do with the active male characters. Honestly a horribly self-serving and unrepresentative piece of writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com