Toast the Knowing, Mad Max: Fury Road

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WARNING: Spoilers

I finally got around to watching Mad Max: Fury Road. It was awesome as described. A lot of driving and fighting which I should have realized from the very descriptive title, but really if you haven't seen it yet that is 90% of the movie; it's like a post-apocalyptic Speed. There are tons of strong female characters in this movie, and they managed to invert some tropes. Yes, there were some damsels in distress, but they saved themselves. One such damsel is Toast the Knowing (loved the character names). Liberated with the others from being sex slaves by Furiosa, Toast was optimistic of their scheme but also skeptical. You got the impression she was hopeful their mad plan would work, and certainly thought it was worth a shot, but not at all convinced it would. Her name might have been reflective of her cautious and thoughtful manner. The most proficient of the harem at weaponry, she kept their guns loaded and pitched in when needed. With her savvy nature it was surprising to me that she ended up being the one who gets recaptured, but she managed to turn her captivity on its head and triumphed in the end. I read somewhere that the next Mad Max would continue to follow Max on a new journey with a new cast of characters. I'm excited to see what's next, but I do hope we see these ladies again.

Zoe Kravitz Discusses the Diversity Problem in Hollywood

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It looks like Zoe Kravitz is going to be a sci-fi/fantasy regular, a la the equally fabulous Zoe Saldana. She has the recently released Ascendant of the Divergent series out, as well as Mad Max and the X-Men movies (among others) under her belt. Check out an excerpt from her interview with E! below:


Being a black woman in Hollywood, Zoe is well aware of the uphill battle she faces, but she still refuses to take any stereotypical roles- "Typically, white people have the story, and any kind of minority is like adding that pop of red or fun purse or pair of shoes to jazz up an outfit," she explains. "These people are accents that make things funny, weird, or dramatic."

Thus, she won't allow herself to be pigeonholed into one of those categories. "I spent so much of my career saying no to those films. I've seen that movie a million times, and I don't feel right putting that into the world over and over and over again," she adds. "I'm not going to spend the rest of my life playing some girl's friend or some girl on crack in the projects."

In fact, she may soon be one of the people to help make that change, hoping to "write, produce and direct" in her own films in the future.

Check out the rest of the article at E! Online:

http://www.eonline.com/news/736754/zoe-kravitz-discusses-the-diversity-problem-in-hollywood?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories



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