Here’s 24 Films About Women: Feel Free to Genderswap Them, Dudes
The news that Splash was getting not just remade but genderswapped with Channing Tatum as the merman and Jillian Bell as the human was very exciting news for me. For others, not so much. And after all the Ghostbusters hate, it got me thinking, what other women’s stories could get the same treatment?
Though I’d thought about doing a list like this before, it was this hilarious tweet that spurred me on.
Men: How would you like it if we gender-swapped all YOUR favourite 80s movies?
Us: Channing Tatum as a mermaid.
Men: No not like that.— Captain Razzle (@CaptainRazzle) August 2, 2016
Without further ado, here’s 24 films Hollywood could totally try and remake with men.
Mystic Pizza – 1988
The Joy Luck Club – 1993
Mermaids – 1990
Clueless – 1995
Sister Act – 1992
Beaches – 1998
Death Becomes Her – 1992
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 1985
Waiting to Exhale – 1995
Thelma and Louise – 1991
First Wives Club – 1996
Bend It Like Beckham – 2002
Heathers – 1988
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – 2005
Set It Off – 1996
Sixteen Candles – 1984
Pretty in Pink – 1986
Teen Witch – 1989
The Witches of Eastwick – 1987
Hocus Pocus – 1993
The Witches – 1990
Practical Magic – 1998
The Craft – 1996
Wow, we make a lot of movies about witches, huh. And last but not least, go hog wild with this one, fellas.
A League of Their Own – 1992
The beauty of films like Mystic Pizza, The Joy Luck Club, A League of Their Own, Sister Act, is that they are treated with sensibilities of their leading women, telling stories that affect women, and have an emotional impact of female movie goers. Maybe I have a similarly equal wrong sense of ownership of these movies as (misogynistic) men had over Ghostbusters, but gender-swapping movies with prominent female casts only seems to diminish our space in film, and we already occupy so less of it already. Some of these would be fun ideas, but it would be better if they were original stories and not just carbon copies like most remakes are. :/
This post is meant to be firmly tongue in cheek. It’s just to illustrate to those who think we’re taking something away from them by putting women in remakes etc that their stories really aren’t that uniquely male, while most of these are uniquely female.
Thanks Jill! You know the second I posted the comment, that’s what I thought – like ‘Oh, this is probably just a sarcastic post’ but I commented anyways. Gender swapping just really gets my gears grinding. :)
Heh. I don’t necessary agree on the uniquely female part. It would be a good opportunity to show other sides of masculinity than what we’re used to and that would be good all around (though it would indeed add to the heap of already male movies, for sure).
They tried to do so with The Craft. It was a very poor movie starring baby Sebastian Stan.
Tho honestly, I’d be interested in a The Craft/Practical Magic/another magical movie about a witch and her son, and how he actually respects women. Because he knows.
I would totally watch a gender swapped Hocus Pocus about bumbling wizards.
A male Sister Act could be kind of interesting. A guy joins a monestary and revitalizes an inner-city community with the power of music?
That reminds me of Nuns On The Run.
Yes please, let’s start with The Witches of Eastwick.
We Made Them Get Their Own League?
I’m finding myself strangely into Clueless Dudes.
Aaand it has a title.