heroine movie

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 1999)

Last year I was at a movie conference in LA and the panel/audience were lamenting the lack of action heroine roles in movies. I commented that the action heroine may not be a likely role (as there are in reality few action heroes). I pointed out that a female heroine might take a different role, ie, she might be a nun, use singing as a weapon, and outmaneuver the Nazi regime while saving her family and husband. The "Sound of Music" probably doesn't make many of the action movie lists; yet it certainly has an active, female lead who is a heroine.