[ SECRET POST #3076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3076 ⌋

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Comments

[alexi_lupin]

The thing I liked about Pacific Rim was that Mako was not overly sexualised or seen as valuable just because she was hot. She was a capable pilot and she was dressed sensibly, as you'd expect from a military organisation. Pacific Rim was compared to Transformers a lot and Transformers is absolutely fucking terrible in that regard. I'm speaking of the first one, I haven't seen the rest. But Megan Fox is eye candy in that film. She is a male fantasy. She is fixing a motorbike in hotpants while sexily draped over it in full hair and makeup. Oh, she's so cool! She's so hot! But aside from being hot I really can't remember how her actions contributed to the plot.

So anyway, I'm not saying PR was some huge feminist triumph, but that was one element that I thought could be viewed as feminist, or at the least, not sexist.

[(Anonymous)]

The difference most likely being that Mako was treated like a character whereas as Megan Fox (hell if I know her name in the Transformer movies) wasn't. Isn't that kind of the point of the Mako Mori test? To point out when big blockbuster movies have female persons in the story who aren't props and then give them "props" for that? I made a little pun.

[alexi_lupin]

Oh, I quite agree with you. I loved Mako as a character. When I said PR wasn't some huge feminist triumph I really just meant I would have liked to see some more ladies, you know. A female character with her own drive, agency and ambition is wonderful, but when put into a film with Raleigh, Stacker, Herc, Chuck, the two scientists, Tendo and Ron Perlman's character it still feels a little lopsided.