Ocean's Eleven...... men

Earlier this week, I watched the movie Ocean's Eleven. I've seen this movie a few times before, however, after learning about female and male characters and actors in class, I saw the movie differently. The fist thing that I noticed was that this movie would definately not pass the bechdel test. There is one women named Tess (Julia Roberts) that is the only female character in the film with a name.

This film is about a group of males who decide that they want to rob 3 major casinos in Las Vegas. This aspect made me wonder why there are a lot of movies with this plot about robbing a company. However, it is almost always a male or group of males that are doing it. As if for some reason women would not be smart enough or capable enough to rob a company. It's not that I think women should be able to rob places, I just think that women should be able to get some of the fun roles in movies too.

The only actress that I can think of at the moment that does majority action roles in Angelina Jolie with Wanted, Tomb Raider, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. However, she is also usually the only female character, and is still seen as a sexual object rather than anything else.



There are some movies where women do get the badass roles and majority of the characters are women. An example is Charlie's Angels. But then agin they are CHARLIE'S angels. They cannot just be three women fighting crime, they have to be three women fighting crime agaist who Charlie says they will.

Overall, I guess I would just like to see a movie where women were the badass characters that didn't listen to anyone, just like the men get to do. Just because they are women doesn't mean that they have to choose between playing the role of a flapper or a perfect housewife in a movie.