yonmei

yonmei @ 08:03 am: Movies for the weekend
I mean to go to District 9 this weekend, and I re-watched Night at the Museum last night. As I noted in comments to ruthi, it's a lovely film of the classic sub-genre Cute Daddy Becomes His Son's Best Hero, and yet we haven't had a Cute Mum Becomes Her Daughter's Best Hero since Aliens II. (And yes, I know Ripley wasn't Newt's bio-mom. And they killed Newt off for Aliens III. Bah.)

Supposing Hollywood were to suddenly have a brainstorm and start producing films that passed the Bechdel Test (Night at the Museum fails it - there's two women, one of whom is actually v. interested in the other one, yet they never get to speak to each other) who would be cast in these films? What classic two-male-roles films would we see being made with two women in the central roles, and who would they be?

(I'd love to see a sci-fi ditzy genius saves the world with the help of her daughter, who has all the academic respectability her mother lacks: Barbra Streisand as ditzy genius, Gillian Anderson as her daughter, Nichelle Nichols as the President of the United States... and if Beatrice Arthur were still alive, I'd cast her as the Chief of Staff.)

Who would you cast? What are your film ideas for these Movies Hollywood Will Never Make? Not just films that scrape a pass in the Bechdel Test, but films with two starring roles for women who talk to each other through the film, plus several major supporting actor roles, all played by women.