leahazel:dicktouching:dcmultiverse:During one of Birds of Prey’s fight sequences, Harley Quinn (Marg
leahazel:dicktouching:dcmultiverse:During one of Birds of Prey’s fight sequences, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) identifies a teammate’s vulnerability and provides a critical assist — by lending her a hair tie. This small act of sisterhood is as familiar in an everyday context as it is surprising in the DC Extended Universe. It’s one of the many ways that Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) differs from its superhero movie forebears: It not only stars women, it was made by them, too. “There’s more women in front [of] and behind the camera than any movie I’d worked on, which is pretty incredible,” says Robbie, who also produced the film. “It was partly a conscious decision, but it also always felt like the organic, right choice to make.”—Entertainment Weekly: How the R-rated, women-powered Birds of Prey flips the bird — and the script — in high-flying styleThis is extra cool because it addresses a long-standing habit with women in action roles having their hair down, and never acknowledging how completely impractical and unsafe that is. It isn’t just sisterhood, it’s commenting that women in these roles should be fighters first, pretty second.It’s meta and it’s also a great character moment. -- source link