Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!Alfke.PASA From: Alfke.PASA@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Spielberg Message-ID: <3276@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 14:09:36 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3276 Posted: Wed Aug 14 14:09:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:46:14 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 From: Peter Alfkeorstcs!richardt writes: > Two great fallacies about Spielberg movies ... > 2) Steven Spielberg has never had a major female character. > Although Princess Leia is not exactly Kate Hepburn, she isn't all > sweetness and light either. Let me be the 56th to point out that Leia is a creation of George Lucas, not Steven Spielberg. How "major" was Karen Allen's character in "Raiders"? She certainly had less screen time than Harrison Ford, but I found her a very likeable, strong woman. Hearing that not only was she not in "Temple of Doom", but that the female sidekick was a stereotypically weak woman, was one of the major factors that made me decide to not see that movie. --Peter Alfke