First off, your icon? Is impressing me and making me incredibly jealous.
Second, you're right about the "strong woman" antipathy out there. I think it's even worse if an actress has the gall to be conventionally pretty but demand to be taken seriously - and pull off acting jobs portraying strong women while doing so. I honestly haven't been able to fathom the Johansson dislike, which I gather is something of long-standing among some people (notably, but not completely, men, apparently), beyond the recent opprobrium heaped on her for this film.
And someone pointed out to me that most movie reviewers, even those who loved the film, either ignored Johansson and the Widow, or denigrated with faint praise or worse. I liked this story about the phenomenon.
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Second, you're right about the "strong woman" antipathy out there. I think it's even worse if an actress has the gall to be conventionally pretty but demand to be taken seriously - and pull off acting jobs portraying strong women while doing so. I honestly haven't been able to fathom the Johansson dislike, which I gather is something of long-standing among some people (notably, but not completely, men, apparently), beyond the recent opprobrium heaped on her for this film.
And someone pointed out to me that most movie reviewers, even those who loved the film, either ignored Johansson and the Widow, or denigrated with faint praise or worse. I liked this story about the phenomenon.