Making good movies that contrast motherhood with big action setpieces isn't soy. Sarah Connor's masculinity is depicted as a necessary but twisted adaptation that drives her to insanity.
Why does motherhood need to be contrasted? How is deconstructing gender roles not soy? It's soy as fuck.
To be more specific, what I mean by "motherhood" is the prima facie aspect of caring/nurturing, which these movies contrast with the less-visible - but just as essential - motherly aspect of defense/tenacity. At some point mothers are confronted with a situation where the father isn't present and they have to don the mantle of the protector against an animal, child predator, or whatever. Because these are sci-fi action stories, the medium of expression is shotguns and flamethrowers.
Read that again. lmao
The fact that Cameron at least attempted it to make sense is the bare minimum.
He didn't "attempt it to make sense," it's an essential part of the script. The movie isn't a vehicle designed around promoting Sarah as a replacement for men, it's actually the exact opposite. She even starts thinking of the Terminator (a robot!) as a surrogate father figure because she understands John needs one.
As for why she went overboard on her masculine traits, protagonists need to make mistakes for the plot to develop correctly. There's not a single scene in T2 when she's not framed as traumatized and/or deranged.
Yes and no. The feminine and the masculine* contain slight elements of each other, like the white in the Yin/Yang contains a black dot and vice versa. Sarah teaching herself to be a commando is an overexpression of the ingredient of masculinity that makes a tomboy. Overall, she still has a feminine perspective.
Also, Sarah's speech is ironic because it's right after she was on the brink of destroying a man's life.
*edited to remove implication that femininity/masculinity are socially constructed
Making good movies that contrast motherhood with big action setpieces isn't soy. Sarah Connor's masculinity is depicted as a necessary but twisted adaptation that drives her to insanity.
To be more specific, what I mean by "motherhood" is the prima facie aspect of caring/nurturing, which these movies contrast with the less-visible - but just as essential - motherly aspect of defense/tenacity. At some point mothers are confronted with a situation where the father isn't present and they have to don the mantle of the protector against an animal, child predator, or whatever. Because these are sci-fi action stories, the medium of expression is shotguns and flamethrowers.
He didn't "attempt it to make sense," it's an essential part of the script. The movie isn't a vehicle designed around promoting Sarah as a replacement for men, it's actually the exact opposite. She even starts thinking of the Terminator (a robot!) as a surrogate father figure because she understands John needs one.
As for why she went overboard on her masculine traits, protagonists need to make mistakes for the plot to develop correctly. There's not a single scene in T2 when she's not framed as traumatized and/or deranged.
Yes and no. The feminine and the masculine* contain slight elements of each other, like the white in the Yin/Yang contains a black dot and vice versa. Sarah teaching herself to be a commando is an overexpression of the ingredient of masculinity that makes a tomboy. Overall, she still has a feminine perspective.
Also, Sarah's speech is ironic because it's right after she was on the brink of destroying a man's life.
*edited to remove implication that femininity/masculinity are socially constructed