Erik
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Fatal woman. A dangerous woman. A woman not to be messed with. A bad woman who destroys a good man: not by strength but by guile.
Okay, so this thread has been lying here for a long time and tonight I finally got around to clicking on it. I have not read it all but perhaps that is best in the interests of fairness.
I'm the Movie Guy. I'm the guy to ask your questions about movies with belly dancers (or movies without belly dancers), and the term femme fatale always reminded me of the character played by Mary Astor in "The Maltese Falcon."
In my 40+ years of watching movies I have noticed two kinds of male villains. One is the villain by design who is bad because he wants to be. The other is the villain by circumstance who is somehow pulled unwillingly into being a bad guy.
I speculate that perhaps a femme fatale may always be a villain by circumstance because she lives in a male-dominated society, and the absolute only way to achieve her goal is to be bad.
Okay, so this thread has been lying here for a long time and tonight I finally got around to clicking on it. I have not read it all but perhaps that is best in the interests of fairness.
I'm the Movie Guy. I'm the guy to ask your questions about movies with belly dancers (or movies without belly dancers), and the term femme fatale always reminded me of the character played by Mary Astor in "The Maltese Falcon."
In my 40+ years of watching movies I have noticed two kinds of male villains. One is the villain by design who is bad because he wants to be. The other is the villain by circumstance who is somehow pulled unwillingly into being a bad guy.
I speculate that perhaps a femme fatale may always be a villain by circumstance because she lives in a male-dominated society, and the absolute only way to achieve her goal is to be bad.
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