G.I. Jane (1997)
Directed by Ridley Scott
In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women into its combat services. The program begins with a single trial candidate, Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, who is chosen specifically for her femininity. O'Neil enters the grueling Navy SEAL training program under the command of Master Chief John James Urgayle, who unfairly pushes O'Neil until her determination wins his respect.
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Blending his lavish but gritty historical epics like Gladiator or Kingdom of Heaven with the sorta-high-concept pop feminism of G.I. Jane or Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel manages to be an excellent synthesis of his stylistic and narrative tics, with rousing action beats peppered throughout period drama that’s tinged with modern sensibilities and bleak humor.
Scott has had no shortage of strong female characters, Ripley in Alien, Thelma and Louise and even GI Jane, but giving over The Last Duel’s climax to a female POV is quite a gamble when playing with the historical epic genre which is traditionally a male dominated one.
Populist Ridley gave us Gladiator and Thelma & Louise but also G.I. Jane and White Squall…
…before he ever made "Gladiator," Scott helmed both "G.I. Jane" and "Thelma & Louise."
But remember Ridley Scott has also pioneered great female leads, from “Alien” to “Thelma & Louise” and “G.I. Jane.”
…el director de ‘La teniente O'Neil’, con la ayuda de la guionista Callie Khouri, ya planteó un comentario sobre la cultura de la violación en la seminal ‘Thelma & Louise’…
She’s not exactly G.I. Jane, but she is scrappy and managed to survive the first film, so…
Captain Marvel isn't as supermacha as GI Jane or Starship Troopers, however; the movie is not about Vers becoming a good, disciplined soldier.
From the director of Bladerunner, Alien and sadly GI Jane, Ridley Scott's movies nowadays more resemble those by his high concept brother Tony, of Days of Thunder and Top Gun fame.
Ridley Scott uses the same technique -- he had actually used it before in his inept G.I. Jane, so I can't say he's swiping from Spielberg -- but the editing is so ferocious, the action filmed so close in, and the lighting so punishingly dim, that you literally can't tell what's going on.
Aside from those films, however, his resume is littered with mediocre and unpromising titles, such as his most recent outing, G.I. Jane.
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Whatever one says about Scott, he has a definite knack for directing women, from Sigourney Weaver in Alien to Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise to Alison Lohman in Matchstick Men, and even Demi Moore in G.I. Jane.
Norton and Pitt go through almost as much physical suffering in this movie as Demi Moore endured in " G.I. Jane ," and Helena Bonham Carter creates a feisty chain-smoking hellcat who is probably so angry because none of the guys thinks having sex with her is as much fun as a broken nose.