Jodie Foster wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for 'Silence of the Lambs'' (1991) at the 1992 Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on March 30, 1992. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)
Ms. Foster is one of the premier actresses, love watching her films. When I was younger, I wanted to meet Katherine Hepburn. Now, meeting and speaking to Jodie is at top of my list.
Having the good fortune to work with Anthony Hopkins cannot help but raise your performance, coupled with a great story helped showcase JODIES talent and her much deserved Oscar she looks great,.
mmmmyea love Jodie, but the preponderance of male heroes is to do with hard realities, like women are more risk-averse, men are stronger and faster. Men make up 90% of industrial accidents, and that aint goona change. Joan of arc and a few others are outlying exceptions. Ans men and women are not the same - see Teal swann "people are not equal".
I think she was really just talking about women being relevant as a character past the point of just being attractive. Clarice Starling is a very complex and relatable character who isn't overpowered, impossibly strong for her size- but rather an intelligent individual who is relentlessly embracing her femininity. Through her pure intentions and authenticity, Jodie's character became a symbol of divine power motivated by pure desires to save weaker individuals in her world. Despite the fact she will never be as physically strong as the men who tower over her, she preservers because she sees saving other innocent lives as a parallel to saving the lambs. The whole point Jodie was trying to make was that in the past, since women didn't have the strength or "heroism" that could compare to men, Hollywood often resorts to crafting lazy, unrealistic female heroines (i.e marvel women) who possess unfathomable qualities and don't come across as relatable at all. Besides this, often the only redeeming quality of women's characters in film is their attractiveness, or their relevance is limited to being a/the love intrest to their male costars. The Silence of the Lambs changed that when Clarice Starling appeared on screen. The producers took the time to flesh out Jodie's character, Clarice, thereby allowing this talented actress to portray an authentic female role who embodies the characteristics of someone motivated by a well-developed moral compass rather than such trivial, one-dimensional(a relief for audiences). She is then juxtaposed against her male colleagues, almost all of whom are motivated purely by advancement rather than the cause itself.
