The mighty Quinn Remembering a movie legend. I am a freshman film student at Emerson College in Boston. I decided to write a paper on why there are no great female directors because I got sick of studying all of the men. At first I was told from book to book, person to person, that it was the male gaze. But now I'm thinking that it has something more to do with nature.
Men tell stories that go up up up, then climax, with a short resolution.
Perhaps that's why we haven't made it into the biggest, most expensive medium of expression. Of course we make it on the independent level, but most of the female independent directors are lesbians. I don't have anything against that, but they are just like men in so many ways, and I want a fully feminine female to make a nice film, I don't want to watch a thousand lesbian films just to study about women filmmakers. They are at the top of everything else these days in small ways. If someone made it, they didn't last.