[ SECRET POST #6130 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6130 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Eh. Sort of. Recently, yes, they've started putting in most stories that the hero will "win" the girl. And by recently, I mean the last 100 years. Before that, a male story could take or leave a wife because that wasn't the center of male existence in the same way as a husband was the best way to survive as a woman. As you said, it doesn't matter which woman; it's like hiring a housekeeper - it doesn't matter to his overall storyline. So the current idea that a male story is happy when he gets the girl doesn't really have the same cultural or literary history.

And often times, the story happens after the wife is dead, i.e. fridging. A dead husband for a woman is an unhappy ending, and almost never the beginning of her story unless the story is of her finding a new husband, or a Jodi Foster film (in which she puts aside men for her kids - again with the "offspring as her entire life" trope).

[(Anonymous)]

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You know, Jodie Foster's character in Flightplan was originally written as a male character and they did make a few changes once they got Foster.

Also, Angelina Jolie's character in Salt was originally written as a male character (supposed to be played by Tom Cruise). They made changes when they got Jolie (as I recall, one of them had to do with her husband fighting back more than the male character's wife was originally supposed to do, which kind of pissed me off).

And Ripley in Alien was also conceived as a male character.

But I do think all of them have a different feel to them because of the original plans, maybe because that made the writers really consider what might change for a female character and what doesn't have to, which is kind of interesting, but kind of sad, too.