Yet, their shortcomings do not stop them from looking down on female cops or being unfair during the fights as the baddies. Therefore, gentlemen-in-distress have to be constantly saved due to their oblivious ignorance. Most of the time, they are overconfident, unreliable, and unsupportive. When they do serve as a love interest, they are often killed off. ” In addition, do not expect males in such movies to take the focus away from the heroines. As Grady Hendrix points out: “the heroines are chaste, love scenes happen offscreen, romance consists of little more than flirtatious glances, and the heroines are usually bundled up in ankle-length skirts, high-waisted mom jeans, long jackets, and loose T-shirts. What needs to be mentioned is the fact that Girls with Guns was not just another sordid attempt to make exploitation/pink violence pictures. a crime syndicate accompanied by breathless fights, synth-pop music, exotic locations, international co-stars, and enough firearms to blow up Schwarzenegger, pretty much defined the formula for a series of movies that followed. The movie about a tough and righteous female cop vs. Directed by action choreographer Corey Yuen and starring Michelle Yeoh (going then by the name Michelle Khan) in her first leading role.

Many Hong Kong cinema enthusiasts unanimously point to the movie Yes, Madam from 1985 which started the Girls with Guns craze. Clear evidence for this trend can be seen in Jackie Chan’s Police Story, Sammo Hung’s Winners and Sinners, and Tsui Hark’s Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain. It seems that at the beginning of the 1980s many Hong Kong directors wanted to break new grounds and, what is more, make things bigger and better, instead of rehashing simple beat-’em-ups and period pieces. The origins of Girls with Guns movies are difficult to pinpoint, but the influences of wuxia and martial arts are visibly noticeable. In the 1960s, Connie Chan and Josephine Siao starred in a variety of wuxia films, not forgetting about Angela Mao who paved her way into stardom through martial arts flicks of the 1970s. Women were present in the spotlight of action/adventure movies as early as the 1970s (for example, Alien) and, in the case of Hong Kong cinema, even earlier. However, true cinemagoers know that this is not as unprecedented and groundbreaking moment as some would like us to believe. In view of the recent blockbusters hits like Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel, both the critics and the general public are enamoured with the idea of women finally wielding the steers of action genre.

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