Unpopular opinion: the "final girl" is not there in most cases to celebrate a strong woman. She is there to dispel male voyeuristic guilt at the pleasure of watching eight other disposable women be violently killed, and so he can call his entertainment progressive.
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 8, 2018
After explaining her views on Twitter, she continued to be attacked by both women and men so she elaborated further. OP note: some female contributors wrote articles on popular sites disagreeing with her views after her tweets.
To be clear, I'm not criticizing the slasher genre. I'm criticizing the concept that the final girl is a feminist figure, and I'm suggesting that the enormous interest in her in contrast to other women in films has to do with assuaging guilt.
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 10, 2018
It's interesting how when you tweet about male violence in films you get a bunch of male violence directed back at you and other women, including statements such as "most final girls don't deserve to live."
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 9, 2018
Men, of course, wouldn't let this go and continued to tweet her while Anna had some interesting ideas for a horror film.
Thought experiment: what if women had most of the social power and liked to roast men and eat them, and one of the most popular types of movies were movies where women roasted men alive, and a man said he didn't care to look at those films and a bunch of women forced him to.
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 10, 2018
The men who are roasted in these movies have typically masculine qualities, and the man who gets to live is effeminate and wears dresses. Then people create a whole branch of academia around trying to prove that this man is empowered.
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 10, 2018
The tweets continued for a while before Anna Tweeted the below which OP believes is her trying to get the attacks off her twitter.
For context, I wrote that statement about final girls because I am taking a different approach in my next film and was working on a director's statement. I had no thought of upsetting horror fans - just trying to imagine a feminist horror cinema along a different axis.
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 10, 2018
I was thinking about the more misogynistic films I've seen and how the over-focus on the final girl can be an easy pathway to excuse the violence done to the other women. And I was thinking about all this in plot terms - how to do something different.
— Anna Biller (@missannabiller) May 10, 2018
Do you think horror films can be empowering for Women? Should the "final girl" trope end?
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