![]() the truly memorable moment in GWTW for many people is Scarlett's vow to never go hungry again, even if she has to lie, cheat or steal. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) - Olivia de Havilland recognizes Leslie Howard - I mean, come on. I could listen to this scene again and again. No small contributor to this condition is the fact that his wife slept with his father and he witnessed it in action! When these two greedy guts try to strong arm the man (Cliff Robertson) into doing their bidding, they come upon a righteous and appalled Crawford who gives them exactly "what for" in an unforgettable condemnation that is as striking as it is hilarious. In it, she plays the put-upon lover of a notably younger man with severe mental anxiety issues. ![]() I typically prefer antagonist Joan versus victim Joan. No one who loves old movies the way I do could truly have only ten favorite moments, but these are the ones I picked for this list.ĪUTUMN LEAVES (1956) - Joan Crawford's tongue-lashing of Vera Miles and Lorne Greene - Autumn Leaves is a decent movie with a solid cast and utilizes a memorable song performed by Nat King Cole, but I really don't count it among my JC faves. To be honest, this really could have been ten Joan Crawford moments (and almost is, in a way!) or ten natural disasters or even ten Faye Dunway moments, but I did make a feeble attempt to add other varying ingredients. Ones that I know by heart and relive in my mind (or sometimes in my dreams) and that I have to drop everything and watch if they are about to occur on television. Begun on a lark because my workload was at an all-time low and I wanted to appear busy lest I wind up being laid-off during a serious recession, now I am so busy at work I have to scramble to find time to keep the damned thing going! Today's list is of those moments in the cinema that I could never ever tire of seeing. It seems impossible that we started the little-blog-that-could a full decade ago. And it’s sweet.And so we now come to the tenth and final Top Ten Anniversary list in celebration of ten fabulous years of Poseidon's Underworld. We won’t see the fruits of that campaign for some time. The Time’s Up movement has promised more women’s stories, told by women, in film and television. Shows where multiple women get top billing, like Broad City, Big Little Lies or Orange Is the New Black, tend to land on cable networks or streaming platforms. ![]() Good Girls has three female protagonists, possibly a first on network television since Desperate Housewives. But they are lonely leads with male love interests by their sides and female friends at the periphery. Sometimes they get to be the main character, as with How to Get Away With Murder or Scandal. Often evil women play supporting roles-the wives of murderous presidents or antagonists to would-be rulers of Westeros. Since Weeds, few female anti-heroes have graced the small screen. That’s a happy development: Television writers long assumed that a woman’s sexuality was her best-and sometimes only-asset. ![]() Unlike Nancy, they do not seduce their enemies to survive. Like Weeds’ Nancy Botwin, the women of Good Girls often find themselves in over their heads but always figure out a way to get out of a scrape. Just a few season in, she’s manipulating cartel bosses. The closer television parallel to Good Girls would actually be Weeds, a series about a widowed housewife who begins a small marijuana business. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” To quote Margaret Atwood, “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. The characters have to rely on their wits to outsmart the firepower and social power of the men around them. But Walter White never had to worry that if a woman found out his secret identity she would try to blackmail him for sex or, failing that, rape him.ĭespite a cutesy promotional campaign with the three women soaking their feet in a kiddie pool full of cash, Good Girls does not shy away from the realities of being a woman in the criminal underworld-or just a woman in the world in general. Inevitable parallels will be drawn between Good Girls and Breaking Bad, another show about a mild-mannered suburbanite who needs cash and eventually finds strength in criminality. In 2018, it’s refreshing to consider how difficult women could reinvigorate that tired trope. For years, difficult men have dominated the small screen. ![]()
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