i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g
Elliot Page also starred in Inception before transitioning, and from what Iāve heard is in The Odyssey for less than five minutes, so thatās a really weird example to use. Like, I donāt disagree with the overall point, but why is that the first example? Kind of feels more like criticizing Nolan for hiring a trans actor than actually being about men not able to write women.
Elliot Page is such a good example of how when trans men transition people automatically read privilege into their experiencesāthem specfically, in a way that singles them out among the sea of cis men they are surrounded with living their lives uncontroversiallyāwhen all evidence suggests they are actually experiencing the exact opposite of that. Elliot Page has gotten nothing but hate and scrutinity from the general public and the media and his career has taken some serious damage since coming out.
the very first thing that happens in the movie is Elliot Page's character dies. I understand the confusion, but typically when a minority dies in the first 5 minutes of a movie we consider this to be a Weird Choice and scrutinize people for making it.
This. Before transitioning he was not just in Inception, but he was the second lead after DiCaprio. The role was badly written, yes. Because Nolan is a bad screenplay writer. Let's be honest here: DiCaprio's character is also not well written. It is just that Nolan writes his women bad in the way most men do: putting them into a refrigerator, or making them the moral anchor and unpaid therapist for his male lead. But the male leads are also badly written. They just do not get refrigerated.
Since transitioning he has done Umbrella Academy (which he was cast on before transition, they just did not drop him), one Indie movie, two voice roles and now this role, in which he dies within minutes.
In the same timeframe a variety of white dudes who were credibly accused of sexual assault, domestic violence or other stuff along the line around the same time Page started transitioning, got into a bunch of new big budget blockbuster as the lead roles.
In the same timeframe we also had had a bunch of bigger budget female led movies, I wanna say.
No, Page did not transition into getting more or bigger roles. Quite the opposite.
To be clear, the indie movie (Close to You), was co-written and co-produced by Page, so it feels even more disingenuous to talk about all of the amazing roles he supposedly got post-transition, when Odyssey is literally the first film he got cast for.
