Did we really need the scene of Juliet Stevenson (looking eerily like Michael Palin in drag, but with ever more crackerjack comic timing) disrupting the wedding with charges of dykery? ...Also, for a few moments, I thought the filmmakers would actually have the gonads to give us a happy ending which doesn't require the female lead to be paired off with a male, but I guess that was simply too radical a departure from formula and I should be content that it wasn't felt necessary to assign a man to Keira Knightley as well.
Thing is, the image of women football players over here is that they are *all* dykes. 75% of the audience will have been watching it expecting that Keira Knightley would try to pull Our Heroine. I was pleased that you get to see the homophobia of some of the relatives and neighbours (bear with me, it's a year since I saw the film) because it demonstrates rather well that the audience is making the same assumption - short hair and a liking for sport means she must be a lesbian, because REAL girls don't do that. To have Our Heroine (yes, yes, I've forgotten her name) pair up with Keira K or one of the other women on the team would play up to the stereotypes. Mind you, it would have been more satisfying, and more realistic IME, if there was some lesbian representation on the team, I admit.
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Date: 2006-01-11 10:07 am (UTC)...Also, for a few moments, I thought the filmmakers would actually have the gonads to give us a happy ending which doesn't require the female lead to be paired off with a male, but I guess that was simply too radical a departure from formula and I should be content that it wasn't felt necessary to assign a man to Keira Knightley as well.
Thing is, the image of women football players over here is that they are *all* dykes. 75% of the audience will have been watching it expecting that Keira Knightley would try to pull Our Heroine. I was pleased that you get to see the homophobia of some of the relatives and neighbours (bear with me, it's a year since I saw the film) because it demonstrates rather well that the audience is making the same assumption - short hair and a liking for sport means she must be a lesbian, because REAL girls don't do that. To have Our Heroine (yes, yes, I've forgotten her name) pair up with Keira K or one of the other women on the team would play up to the stereotypes.
Mind you, it would have been more satisfying, and more realistic IME, if there was some lesbian representation on the team, I admit.