Silent Hill movie

Originally Posted by Amanda

You don't know the half of it. Have you checked out the blog on the movie's main website? It has some answers to various questions, and one of them is this little gem about why they swapped Harry for a female lead.



I'll say here what I said about it in my journal: Fuck, aren't we past this stereotyping shit yet? Apparently in American horror movies, only women are allowed to be afraid. God forbid male characters express anything resembling human emotion or show any sign of vulnerability when a mannequin-raping demon with a giant knife wants to skin them alive.

If that's their criteria for a male lead, we should all hope they DON'T get to make Silent Hill 2 into a movie. Oh noes, James shows EMOTION from time to time! Holy shit, quick, give him tits and a vagina so the American movie-going public doesn't have to feel uncomfortable about a male expressing emotional pain!

That sort of stereotyping is precisely the reason why a male lead which is vulnerable and afraid is perfect. People expect the male lead to be strong, and therefore if they are out of their mind with fear there has got to be a damned good reason.

We are inclined to feel the stakes are higher if the stereotypicaly strong lead can't face up to them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.