{"id":34529,"date":"2019-11-29T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=34529"},"modified":"2019-11-29T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T09:10:53","slug":"why-cant-charlie-let-his-super-female-spies-evolve-from-play-dolls-to-bold-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/why-cant-charlie-let-his-super-female-spies-evolve-from-play-dolls-to-bold-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t Charlie let his super female spies evolve from play-dolls to bold babes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First look of the trailer and any fan of the angels can spot how this time around they are dress less to impress the men in their lives (and theatres) and more to feel breezy and sexy while they slay evil masterminds, ah wait for it, for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CHARLIE&#039;S ANGELS - Official Trailer (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSUq4VfWfjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Video credit Sony Pictures Entertainment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I Guess that\u2019s the difference it makes to have a female visionary direct a female spy movie, all the drama, thrill and a wardrobe to die for, without the unhealthy dose of male gaze appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Stewart in short chopped hair is a refreshing look for the angels, and with the plethora of pretty wigs used by her as disguise suggests she\u2019s got more of her individual personality out at play instead of just strictly maintaining classic blend-able good looks a spy needs for her job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-34529 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/why-cant-charlie-let-his-super-female-spies-evolve-from-play-dolls-to-bold-babes\/image16\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image16-1-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image16-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image16-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image16-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image16-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/why-cant-charlie-let-his-super-female-spies-evolve-from-play-dolls-to-bold-babes\/image22\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image22-1-203x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image22-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image22-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/why-cant-charlie-let-his-super-female-spies-evolve-from-play-dolls-to-bold-babes\/image20\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image20-1-300x193.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image20-1-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image20-1-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image20-1-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/image20-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also satisfying to see \u2018Bosley\u2019 finally become a work title instead of a person acting as a handler for the angels, and better yet is to see a female Bosley. Cheers to that, Elizabeth Banks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t always like that. You see the story of Charlie\u2019s Angels began long ago with Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett in the year 1976. The &#8220;three little girls&#8221; that went to police academy, OG Charlie said, until he took them away to work for him. Three little girls, not three magnificent female spies.<\/p>\n<p>Tsk tsk Charlie, now that&#8217;s not the way to speak about women who are literally trained kick stuffy behind of silly men, kinda like you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Charlie&#039;s Angels&quot; 1976 TV Intro\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rtaEFOxMPck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Video credit The Rap Sheet<\/p>\n<p>And although they started their journey on the small screen of TV, they did manage to bring new heights to sexist portrayal of women on-screen along with trying to become a beacon of female empowerment in its time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What it did achieve most successfully though was introducing the \u201cjiggle\u201d to the world. Three beautiful women, fighting to make things right in a dangerous world, wearing tiny pretty clothes yet no bras.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you have support of all the gadgets spies, why would a woman need support of a bra?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34531\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34531\" class=\"wp-image-34531\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/Charlies_Angels_cast_1977-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/Charlies_Angels_cast_1977-1.jpg 1271w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/Charlies_Angels_cast_1977-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/Charlies_Angels_cast_1977-1-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/Charlies_Angels_cast_1977-1-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett from Charlie&#8217;s angels TV show 1976<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even Farrah Fawcett famously said, &#8220;When [the show] got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so the jiggle was the essence of the 1976 version\u2019s Angels, along with wafer thin plot lines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But then came Hollywood\u2019s film reboot treatment of the angels with the golden girl Cameron Diaz, innocent sweetheart Drew Barrymore and the sultry vixen Lucy Liu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charlie&#039;s Angels (2000) - Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRHRa80wVq8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Video credits YouTube movies by Sony Pictures movies &amp; shows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, they had fresher style, better wardrobe and the first movie even had some commercial success.<\/p>\n<p>But underneath the glossiness of the angle\u2019s world, there were many troubles in paradise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For starters, the three leading actresses were famously rumoured to have never gotten along well. No points for girls supporting girls movement.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the perpetuating of that overtly sexual, male gaze appeasing dialog and appearance of the angels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charlie&#039;s Angels (6\/8) Movie CLIP - Really Bad Day (2000) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EN0JaJN_fwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0Video credits Movieclips<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the plot was golden!<\/p>\n<p>For the first movie Drew\u2019s character gets fooled by the villain who actually makes her fall for him and breaks her heart, leaving the angels hating\/fighting him for being both the bad guy and also\u00a0 the guy who made a fool out of one of them with the pretext of love!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully 2019\u2019s reboot has taken some notes on how to avoid the most obvious sexist notions that has for so long plagued Charlie\u2019s Angels story and tried to amend it for all the girls and women out there dreaming of seeing a quality portrayal of female spies on big screen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out for yourself though, when you go experience the dream in theatre from 29<sup>th<\/sup> November in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words by: Meghna Agarwal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture credits: Charlie&#8217;s Angels 2019 official press release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First look of the trailer and any fan of the angels can spot how this time around they are dress less to impress the men in their lives (and theatres) and more to feel breezy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":34530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,53,54,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-feminism-2","category-film-2","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}