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Message no. 1
From: William Monroe Ashe <wma6617@*******.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:26:13 -0600
Wait a minute here ... Are we all a bunch of sexists? No one has had any
women yet.

Street Sam; Why not have Cynthia Rothrock? (or maybe as a P.A.?)
Decker; the girl from Hackers
Corp; Gillian Anderson (I think she would be one way scary villian)
Rigger; Gotta have a rigger
Mage; Melissa Joan Hart (just kidding ... sorry ...No... not the carp AIEEEE)

Part of the point of Shadowrun is to scramble up todays social
conventions. So just because we think something would be odd, that would
be exactly why it should be that way in the
movie/story/novel/adventure/yadda... One can still be shocking without
having large amounts of pointless violence and sex. Now pointed violence
heh heh heh.

Anyway that's my thoughts on the matter
Message no. 2
From: Shad Owens <shadow@******.LINFIELD.EDU>
Subject: Re: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:29:51 -0800
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, William Monroe Ashe wrote:

> Wait a minute here ... Are we all a bunch of sexists? No one has had any
> women yet.

And after all the earlier discussion about how you guys all like
women... :)

> Decker; the girl from Hackers

Yes! Talk about a typical decker attitude... :)
Jennie
Message no. 3
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:28:51 -0500
>Wait a minute here ... Are we all a bunch of sexists? No one has had any
>women yet.
>
[Snip thoughts on women for the movie]

I would definately want to see a couple of women in the film... Just
please, no one mention Pamela Anderson... She's only got two things going
for her, and neither one is talent. Seen Barb Wire?

Steve
Message no. 4
From: Jamal Hall <flare@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:40:12 -0500
>>Wait a minute here ... Are we all a bunch of sexists? No one has had any
>>women yet.
>>
>[Snip thoughts on women for the movie]
>
>I would definately want to see a couple of women in the film... Just
>please, no one mention Pamela Anderson... She's only got two things going
>for her, and neither one is talent. Seen Barb Wire?
>
>Steve

*ROFL* They have names steve....i don't know what they are...but they are
the stars!


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Message no. 5
From: The Crucible <crucible@******.MUR.CSU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:23:21 +1100
> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, William Monroe Ashe wrote:
>
> > Wait a minute here ... Are we all a bunch of sexists? No one has had any
> > women yet.
>
> And after all the earlier discussion about how you guys all like
> women... :)

Well... Johnny <whatever>monic (I still cant spell it and cant be
bothered) was pretty much a male typecast there... you did have the token
female... and at least she played a better role than Keanu did... but
there was stuff all otherwise...

>
> > Decker; the girl from Hackers
>
> Yes! Talk about a typical decker attitude... :)
> Jennie

I -still- havent seen this... I missed it while I was in Sydney by two
weeks... and do you think they'd have it at the local cinema? nah....
hmmm *growlmumblegrumble* Can anyone tell me what it was like? Straight
to my email would be best seeing as I dont want to tie up the list serv
anymore than I have been ;)


Crucible

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Message no. 6
From: The Crucible <crucible@******.MUR.CSU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:28:14 +1100
> >Wait a minute here ... Are we all a bunch of sexists? No one has had any
> >women yet.
> >
> [Snip thoughts on women for the movie]
>
> I would definately want to see a couple of women in the film... Just
> please, no one mention Pamela Anderson... She's only got two things going
> for her, and neither one is talent. Seen Barb Wire?
>
> Steve
>

Hmmm Cindy Crawford from "Fair Game" and Elle have had some moviemaking
experiance... for that matter why dont we get demi moore to do a strip
halfway thru.....

heheh Well... token feminism is going a bit too far... they dont have to
be georgus women... well not if they're in the slums anyway....
Hmmm maybe that one who plays opposite Christian Slater in Broken Arrow....
she didnt do too bad... if you can get her to stop ducking all the time...


Crucible

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Message no. 7
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: movie (Casting Call debate cont'd)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:06:35 +0100
The Crucible said on 9:28/29 Oct 96...

> heheh Well... token feminism is going a bit too far... they dont have to
> be georgus women... well not if they're in the slums anyway....

When was the last time you saw a typical-looking woman (I mean looking
like the people you run into on the street every day) in a movie, as
opposed to the Cindy Crawford/Pamela Anderson type? If there were going
to be female squatters in the movie, there would be two possibilities:

1) they're only there to provide a backdrop, in which case they look like
the old woman from Monty Python And The Holy Grail (the one that Arthur
and the other knight say "ni" to), or

2) they become main characters, and this means they'll look like shit when
first encountered, but then they take a shower and get some new clothes,
and suddenly look like movie stars. (Sort of like the typical
girl-with-glasses -- looks like a nerd/trainspotter, until she takes the
glasses off.) And naturally they fall in love with the male stars, or the
other way around, then they prevent the Evil Corporation(tm) from carrying
out its Even More Evil(R) plans, and they live happily ever after :)

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