ASPartOfMe wrote:
ironpony wrote:
Oh okay. What about the new movie Charlies Angel's for example? I hated it because I felt it was too much about 'woke' politics, but was the original 70s show and earlier movies in the early 2000s also political for their times, but I just didn't see it?
The original television show in the 70s was a prime example of a genre called “T&A” shorthand for tits and ass. The story lines as such were only there to fill in the time. The purpose of the show was for guys to stare at the Angles. Posters of the stars especially Farrah Fawcett were on many a teenage boys bedroom walls. So the message was women are basically their bodies. Feminists complained but they were background noise, if that.
The answer to his question is...no...it was not political ...even for its time.
It wasnt even on the level of the later Xena the warrior princess, or Linda Hamilton in Terminator genre in which the audience could have its cake and eat it too ( the feminists could see an empowered woman, and the male chauvinists could see a hawt chick). The Angels were hawt chicks who fought crime but they werent quite Xena yet.
There were police dramas of the seventies and eighties Charlies Angels era that dealt with racial and social issues, but those were usually tough mean streets police dramas. Not sexualized fantasy things.