How 'Black Christmas' became a 'fiercely feminist' slasher movie for the MeToo era
A few years after Donald Trump’s election coincided with the birth of the #MeToo movement and mere months after the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, director Sophia Takal set out to write a horror movie about being a woman in 2019.
Where the original centered on a group of girls terrorized by a killer hiding out inside their sorority house , Takal and screenwriter April Wolfe, who cowrote the script for Blumhouse, wanted to imbue the traditional slasher story with a nuanced portrait of female solidarity and a timely examination of the entrenched nature of misogyny.
“At one point I just assumed the MPAA would automatically give it an R rating because we’re dealing with issues of sexual assault,” said Takal. “But we shot it with the intention of a PG-13 rating. I was very vocal about the fact that if I had to pull back on any of the specificities of Riley’s experience or the sexual politics of the movie, that would be a problem for me. That was really the only sticking point.
For Takal, who calls the film “fiercely feminist,” seeing a nuanced portrait of women depicted onscreen in and of itself is revolutionary. “I think there’s something still subversive about making movies that are about real women who are complicated and flawed and don’t have to be perfect,” she said. While Wolfe describes being a woman in 2019 as"... terrible sometimes,” she says one of the biggest barriers to meaningful change is the inability for people on opposing sides to hear each other.
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