See, I strongly disagree that there should have been more women characters. Because there wouldn't have been -- I mean, sure, the lead Skrull could have been female, but he did 'play' at least two women on Earth. The odds of Fury's boss being female? Not great, even in an agency founded by Peggy Carter, who would have been too old to still be director -- she'd be in her seventies at least. The various security guards? Likely male. The bar owner? Likely male. You had a key member of the Kree team (Minn-Erva), they gender-flipped Mar-Vell to be Annette Benning, who was actually in a dual role as the Supreme Intelligence, and the most important characters were the Rambeau ladies. Why was that not enough for you? :)
ETA: Also, and this matters: an all-female movie completely defangs the theme of Carol (and Maria) being repeatedly told by men that they weren't enough and couldn't be enough. There had to be men in power to do that.
The lack of white characters in Black Panther was a reflection of Wakanda being an explicitly black country with no contact with the outside. They didn't have to sideline white people because there wouldn't have been any.
I do NOT want to see a movie that explicitly backgrounds any flavor of human to get back at any other flavor of human. That's not how progress is made, that's payback.
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Date: 2019-03-10 22:26 (UTC)ETA: Also, and this matters: an all-female movie completely defangs the theme of Carol (and Maria) being repeatedly told by men that they weren't enough and couldn't be enough. There had to be men in power to do that.
The lack of white characters in Black Panther was a reflection of Wakanda being an explicitly black country with no contact with the outside. They didn't have to sideline white people because there wouldn't have been any.
I do NOT want to see a movie that explicitly backgrounds any flavor of human to get back at any other flavor of human. That's not how progress is made, that's payback.