How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I’ll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

  • thelasttoot@lemmy.world
    112·
    9 months ago

    Not according to Jennifer Lawrence, “I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”

    • soliloquy@startrek.websiteEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      She said that but she was wrong lol Off the top of my head both the Terminator and Alien series had lead female action hero’s that predate the Hunger Games

      Also I don’t mean to be pedantic, I can’t tell if this is a stealth /s discussion or not

      • starman2112
        12·
        9 months ago

        I believe Artyom was being sarcastic, and making fun of Jennifer Lawrence for making such a blatantly incorrect statement

        • Artyom@lemm.ee
          7·
          9 months ago

          Thank you for defending my honor random internet stranger, I salute you.

    • eightpix@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      The Long Kiss Goodnight is a pretty straightforward action movie from 1996 starring Geena Davis in the lead. Samuel L. Jackson co-stars.

      Working backward from there:

      La Femme Nikita (1990) and the American remake Point of No Return (1994)

      Foxy Brown (1974) and Coffy (1973) are offerings from the blaxploitation angle.