In Ocean’s Eleven by Steven Soderbergh (2001) as well as in its sequels, we could follow Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his band of nice crooks pooling their expertise – charm, computers, explosives, the network, etc. –, to rob the legendary Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. the “feminine and glitzy remake of summer” is not unlike its predecessor, explains the New York Times. In Ocean’s 8Sandra Bullock plays Debbie Ocean, Danny’s sister.
Like her brother in the original film, she has just been released from prison and has promised the authorities to stand guard when she decides to organize an ambitious diamond heist. Still like her brother, she brings together a band of experts to accompany her in her crazy project, played in particular by Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Rihanna. Thereby “even if we see Debbie on the screen, it’s Danny we have in mind” laments the daily, which decides:
Even when a Hollywood film is adapted with women in the title roles, it still revolves around the men: it’s the plots they wrote, the characters they created, the worlds they invented.
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“Bringing men’s stories to life for women”
Despite the commercial failure of the remake of S.O.S Ghosts with women, directed by Paul Feig in 2016, the trend of replacing male characters with women has spread, becoming “a genre in itself”. So, besides Ocean’s 8three other American films are released this year replacing men with female alter egos (Life of the Party, Overboard et What Men Want – adapted from What women Want by Nancy Meyers). A comfortable process for Hollywood which must meet “to the imperatives that the industry is currently facing”, namely more racial and sexual diversity. The problem is that “these remakes make women live the stories of men instead of allowing them to tell their own”.
They are implicitly expected to address the sexism of the original films by infusing feminism into these new versions..”
But the feminist guarantee is not enough to make a quality film, reminds the New York Timeswhich adds sternly: “there is something that men ofOcean’s Eleven were able to do and not the women of Ocean’s 8 : act in a good movie.” A little advice for Hollywood:
When women complained that they weren’t offered the same roles as men, they didn’t mean literally the same.”
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