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The Culture - ‘The French Dispatch’ and the whimsical world of Wes Anderson

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Women in Films

Women are used as these props to make a lot of the male characters in wers anderson's films more interesting. And that is an othering of women that is very frustrating. The two most prominent ones, tilda swinton and francis mc dolman, are both journalist characters that sleep with their protagonists. What is jusea? This this trope that has plagued women who dare to do journalism,. Yes. I think even the french dispatch, which had more interesting women characters than as other movies. It isn't great. In a pile of dogs sol we, i feel that like a merad exami. E an olser, i's kind of frustrate.

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