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Did the 'Ghostbusters' trailer misrepresent Leslie Jones as a sassy sidekick?

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Mattew Henry

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Mar 7, 2016, 6:54:08 PM3/7/16
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....and it begins.

When the SJWsphere was finger-banging itself over the announcement of
the female-fronted Ghostbusters remake, I told people to just wait. If
you look at the zealotic and militant social justice community (the
ones who have no grounding in reality or no concept of common sense),
aka the "Tumblr" crowd, there's a history of infighting when new angles
of diversity are injected into media--and it usually boils down to
"hey....that's not *MY* vision of diversity!" (insert diatribe fueled
by sociopolitical. theory gleaned from a 100 level survey course and
Tumblr-driven memes and buzzwords) to which others respond with "but
that's just how *I* saw it." Season with Twitter-wars, Tumblrtantrums
and much lulz for spectators. I always said I wasn't actively hating
the reboot because I never had a huge emotional attachment to the
films. Hell, when DIC had to call their cartoon "The *Real*
Ghostbusters," I was more into Filiation's Ghostbusters at the time.
When someone said the remake was a rehash of the original, I had to
even ask if there was a scene where a male ghostbuster was possessed
and fought the others because I couldn't recall a scene like that--I
just didn't have that "my childhood! Oh god, my childhood!" attachment

What I instead see is another Johnny Storm debacle....only with a
gender swap--something I've written and spoken about in the past.
Hollywood didn't feel comfortable enough creating an original action-
comedy franchise to populate with female leads, so they instead had to
bank on the "Ghostbusters" brand and use that to leverage the female
leads and bring a broad audience in. And what's really bothersome is
that I know of no media-privileged feminist who has brought that up.
For me, this reboot has all the pandering and condescension of the
younger kid getting the older kid's hand me downs. Why not something
new? Of course, we all know why--Hollywood has never had a good track
record with pushing and supporting female-led movies. Note, they didn't
call it "Furiosa: Fury Road," they had to piggyback her character on a
film wherein the title character and male lead is in the back seat for
a majority of it. Likewise, after a legendary TV series that vaulted
the character to cultural icon status, it took almost forty years to
get Wonder Woman to the big screen. Meanwhile, a (then) second-tier
character like Iron Man launches Marvel's (now) cinematic juggernaut.

But I'm getting off point.

I never got up in arms about the Ghostbusters remake because I knew
that its intended audience would start infighting--and that would more
interesting than the film itself.

So two days after the trailer...this.

http://www.hitfix.com/harpy/did-the-ghostbusters-trailer-misrepresent-leslie-jones-as-a-sassy-sidekick

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