It helps to have a damsel in distress, but it does not really matter which damsel.
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" Off his assertion that she's a damsel in distress, she chides, "I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this.
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She was a damsel who could handle her own distress.
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She's also a pint-sized spitfire (no damsel in distress here).
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I feel very "damsel in distress" and hate being a cliché.
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Its title is a bit ironic — who is the real damsel here?
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I imagined a story where I didn't have to be the damsel.
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Jessica Chastain will not be playing a damsel in distress anytime soon.
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Pattinson appeared opposite Mia Wasikowska once more in the western "Damsel" (2018).
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Damsel is also a fitting place for chatter about Grande and Davidson's wedding.
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Based on her rapid-fire reactions, Gigi Hadid is no damsel in distress.
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First of all, we've already established that Claire is no damsel in distress.
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She's been relegated to the role of damsel in distress time and time again.
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Damsel is available to digitally rent or purchase on Amazon, YouTube, and Google Play.
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Baccarin especially enjoyed playing a female character who wasn't just a damsel in distress.
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Shaydakiss: I've been in situations where people assume that I'm a damsel in distress.
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But Batman v Superman relies far too heavily on the damsel-in-distress trope.
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The film is the classic story about an "everyman" protecting a damsel in distress.
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But she has largely dwelt in Mickey's shadow, the damsel to his leading man.
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But she has always dwelt in Mickey's shadow, the damsel to his leading man.
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Someday, somehow, you too will find a beautiful damsel to torment forever and always.
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One could say that the earlier "damsel in distress" might be a fitting forerunner.
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They're not the only ones in pursuit of our Westchester County damsel in distress, Chantal.
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I think that she'll do it with Belle — Belle won't be a damsel in distress.
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Lois Lane was both a competent, ambitious journalist and a slightly flighty damsel in distress.
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It's a classic damsel-in-distress role, but inflected by all sorts of gender tension.
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Although Clarice (Becca Andrews) helps search for her hero, she stays an ego-stroking damsel.
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So Karen keeps alternating between femme fatale and mysterious detective-novel damsel until he consents.
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She's the damsel in distress, and Tom, with his newfound strength, is positioned as her vigilante.
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Then they become a damsel in distress, and they're demoted for the rest of the story.
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Pattinson has also had a busy year with performances in last year's High Life and Damsel.
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A 'damsel in distress' comes to mind, although it can apply just as well to guys.
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Women were either there to play damsel in distress or to lure men into sexual temptation.
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So yeah: safe to say Dolores has broken out of her damsel in distress narrative loop.
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I played everything from the Bawd in Pericles to the damsel in distress in La Ronde.
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From her first scene on, Mason is posed as the antithesis to a damsel in distress.
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The non-Bechdel Test-friendly Fast films often default to damsel-in-distress roles for Mia.
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She won overnight fame as Princess Leia, a damsel who could deal with her own distress.
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Instead, Jekyll largely disappears and Jenny becomes a damsel in distress, gasping for rescue again and again.
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I did a movie after "Good Time" [titled " Damsel"] which was from a script and it's funny.
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Two: The original Ghostbusters has an arcane damsel-in-distress story premise, and extremely unsubtle rape analogies.
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And, now that Jed has established herself as a damsel in distress, romance seems all but inevitable.
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Challenged by many perils, Mario must reach his archrival in order to save our damsel in distress.
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Because feminist Bey would never have her daughter grow up to be the archetypal damsel in distress.
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But the eventual scene of a helpless damsel at the mercy of a monstrous man is subverted.
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Now starring opposite Mia Wasikowska in Damsel, Pattinson took some time to honor all his previous leading ladies.
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"Villain" has a lazy association with that mustache-twiddling, cackling over a damsel on some train tracks shit.
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But if the set-up of damsel distressed by unfeasibly large animal seemed familiar, very little else did.
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And don't worry — Waters, never one to play the damsel in distress, made her own jab at Viall.
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She hopes to redefine roles for women in the industry, too — more Wonder Woman, less damsel-in-distress.
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Yet all these deeds are little more than variations on the theme of a damsel in severe distress.
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At first, I was sure he was being chivalrous because I appeared to be a damsel in distress.
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Eve has to save her former superior, Frank (Darren Boyd), who becomes a sort of damsel in distress.
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If Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is the damsel in distress, is Clementine the hooker with a heart of gold?
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The actor made the rounds at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday while he promoted the Western comedy Damsel.
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"Magic Bitch" is definitely anthemic and there's a great line on there about being the damsel and the rescue.
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Pattinson, who stars in the modern day western, Damsel, keeps it casual wearing a hoodie and black leather jacket.
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She wants to tell the truth, and I think she certainly didn't want to look like a glamorous damsel.
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At this point, Sansa is no longer the daydreaming damsel, flattered to have the attention of a twerpy prince.
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I think it materialized in the fact that I wanted to be the damsel in distress the whole time.
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Often cast into roles where as the damsel-in-distress or love interest, she found herself churning out films.
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If you ever feel like a damsel in distress, you can use Chelsea Handler: Gotta Go to rescue yourself.
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No longer relegated to playing the damsel in distress, we're seeing women kick ass both as heroes and villains.
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"You love this antiquated notion that I'm a damsel needing to be rescued but… that's not my story," Sam counters.
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Did they succumb to the criticism that the books promoted an anti-feminist, damsel-in-distress view of the world?
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"I can't swoop in and save the damsel," Valente wrote when she explained where the idea for the book originated.
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During the festival, Pattinson also shed some more light on Damsel, a western comedy starring himself and actress Mia Wasikowska.
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Don't expect this 20-year-old rising star to play a damsel-in-distress or rom-com lead anytime soon.
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"I can't control the marketing but I can promise you she is not a damsel in the film," he replied.
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She's no damsel in distress: She's the one who saves the day, and she just so happens to be female.
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The scene makes it instantly clear that Diana is not the typical damsel in distress of past comic-book adaptations.
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He looked over at his wife and saw that she was not a damsel in distress, not a candlemaker's daughter.
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Valetto, an impish valet (the soprano Silvia Frigato), has an endearing love scene with the perky damsel Damigella (Francesca Boncompagni).
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"It's about her standing up to how she's been wronged instead of being a damsel in distress," Ramirez explained in Vancouver.
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When she's shown to be handling things on her own, she's shrewish, and when she can't, she's a damsel in distress.
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On Friday morning, a damsel found herself in distress and a man perched on his horse came galloping to her rescue.
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We then move onto the first challenge, which is the classic "save the damsel-in-distress from a burning building" exercise.
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The brief glimpses of women in films about magic paint them as minor or supporting characters, or the damsel in distress.
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I don't know why I just made that sexual but I am tired of Michael Cohen's whole damsel-in-distress routine.
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No longer a mere damsel to be saved, this MJ is a fearless reporter who works alongside Spider-Man as an equal.
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She is not a manic-pixie dream girl, but she is skimming the surface of damsel in distress and untamable wild child.
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Her cry for help was the ultimate manifestation of the damsel in distress, a princess calling out for her only hope: men.
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" Pete defended his damsel to the cable TV channel on June 5 2007: "That's pretty much the silliest rumor I've ever heard.
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Calling out the resemblance, Koma commented on the image by making a reference to the damsel Mario is frequently tasked with saving.
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But Smith was no damsel in distress; she had an unbending professionalism about her that wore down even the most stubborn resistance.
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We all know it's poor form to relegate your leading lady to the damsel-in-distress role, so let's make her competent!
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For the uninitiated, Lotic properly arrived in 2014, delivering a first taste of their cerebral club music with their DAMSEL in DISTRESS mixtape.
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The episode ends with Teddy getting stabbed (again) by his damsel not-so-in-distress, who's been working for Wyatt this whole time.
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It's an 88-minute adrenaline puzzle that leaves any pretense of a damsel in distress behind in favor of a smart, resourceful heroine.
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The enigmatic Beatrice (Angela Bundalovic) is a standout, as we come to realize she's far more than a doe-eyed damsel in distress.
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She was the first damsel-in-distress from the Donkey Kong arcade game, where Mario had to jump over barrels to rescue her.
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Watch out Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba, there's a new actor interested in the role of 007 – and she's no damsel in distress.
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She pulls a damsel-in-distress move in a health food store, spilling carob balls everywhere so he can swoop in and help.
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It portrays Wiso as if it were a gadget in James Bond that assists in the rescue of the token damsel in distress.
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When she's not being the funny one, she's the damsel in distress, which even more than two decades ago, was a tired cliché.
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Like total heroes, a pair of brothers called Mario and Luigi fight through eight different worlds to save this archetypal damsel in distress.
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In addition, Thomas revives her work "Damsel," performed by Peter Chamberlin, as well as new material set to live music by Jo Morris.
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Teddy, whose core directive is to protect Dolores, is saved by his so-called damsel in distressed when she decides to free them all.
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It sounds fairly straightforward, but Damsel is one of those movies that starts out being about one thing and then takes a left turn.
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" Annabelle Wallis, Cruise's co-star in the flick, tells PEOPLE she was excited to play a heroine who wasn't your typical "damsel in distress.
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Plus, each is drawn into a situation by what initially looks like a damsel in distress, giving them a cause for which to fight.
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In "Do Me, Baby", Prince assumes the role of a traditional damsel and begs for the object of his desire to "Lay me down".
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For example, fantasy writer Robin McKinley's Spindle's End, her most famous book, is a riff on Sleeping Beauty in which the damsel saves herself.
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A veteran of Brazilian soap operas, Ms. Pitanga is typically cast as a willowy damsel who makes terrible choices when it comes to men.
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Rejecting the roles of trophy, muse, and damsel in distress, she refuses to accept that a woman "belongs in the hands of some man."
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Before Merida kicked ass in Brave or Princess Anna cracked wise in Frozen, Princess Fiona proved that a damsel need not be in distress.
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That's no small feat in a fantasy movie culture that usually has women pegged as either the sexy vixen or the doe-eyed damsel.
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In the film's final moments, she's reduced to a stereotypical damsel in distress, ultimately having to be rescued, Snow White style, by Ben's kiss.
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If Taylor did not fit the mold of the dashing practitioner of derring-do, neither was she the image of the damsel in distress.
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Important to note ... no one, human or pig, was injured and most of the girls just played "damsel in distress" -- which got Ben's attention.
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The damsel looked half in anguish, half aroused—being hoisted by the bare chest and puffy shirt adorned beefcake, grasping at her bursting corset.
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Take Mary Jane for example—long time wifey material to Peter Parker—who is forever the damsel in distress solution to our hero in question.
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It was a public-relations staffer who proposed a rudimentary story and suggested the sumptuous name "Zelda" (after Zelda Fitzgerald) for the damsel in distress.
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Even as a child I noticed Edith Gonzalez always played strong, badass female characters and NOT the damsel in distress trope which infested the genre.
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Naturally, there are plenty of sweeping scenes showing cannons being fired during epic sea battles, a damsel in distress, and lots and lots of pirates.
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Why would Mirren, no one's notion of a damsel in distress, take a role that allows her to be little more than a helpless victim?
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I love that its message to young girls is one of creativity, perseverance, and empowerment, and that it's a departure from damsel-in-distress tales.
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In the classic video game tradition, J.J. has to find and save the damsel in distress, and naturally, she does it by running to the right.
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Still, Wright is far from the typical action movie sidekick who simply exists to further along the storyline — or the damsel-in-distress Disney princess trope.
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Arsène Lupin III is a freewheeling womanizer; his goal is to rescue a damsel in distress, and for most of the film, his motives are unclear.
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As such, she was colored differently than other women: There was no need for her to coil or cower or shrink into a damsel in distress.
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The guy grabs his pizza, smiling a gleaming, gold-toothed smile and giving a wink that almost has me swooning like a 1950s damsel in distress.
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That leaves us with the question of what to make of a conspiracy theory like "Melania," which further casts Melania Trump as America's first damsel in distress.
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Last season on "Game of Thrones," Sansa Stark finally shed her former damsel-in-distress self and showed her true colors as a clever, compelling young leader.
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"I think there's a lot to be said about how Dolores says that she imagined a story where she didn't have to be the damsel," she says.
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She first became famous as a damsel in distress opposite Errol Flynn in swashbuckling epics such as "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938).
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Tariq mistakes Anika's edginess for her being a "damsel in distress" and/or her playing hard to get, never suspecting that she may be wearing a wire.
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In an ode to the anti-damsel in distress, we're drawing on some fierce beauty looks from the '70s, the decade in which the film is set.
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" In 2015, Judge writes in Splice Today about what he calls "damseling," which he describes as "making a woman a passive damsel in distress who needs rescuing.
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Its newest adaptation, the animation feature "White Snake," which features a Disney-esque damsel-in-distress treatment, is a prequel, set 500 years before the main story.
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In this visual, which was directed by Rage, RiFF RAFF rides through the desert until he meets a damsel in distress (who's actually a member of the cartel).
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One of the biggest changes is Peter's relationship with Mary Jane Watson, who's historically been relegated to the role of a damsel in distress for Peter to save.
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She then conveniently seems to lose all of that intelligence and determination just to have a damsel-in-distress moment, after which she's back to her usual self.
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HIT TV is simultaneously a story of hero trying to save damsel at all costs, a contestant trying to win game show, and everyone trying not to die.
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Jane scoffs at the word damsel, but she's in distress as well as a stand-in for the abused, captive black bodies that the movie shows only glancingly.
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Even in their first reunion during the Demons' attack on the museum, she calls him out for acting like she's the damsel only moments after she saved his ass.
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Every season involves staging what are basically male duels, featuring all the Bachelors competing against each other to get the elusive one-on-one time with their desired damsel.
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Cindy Sherman's groundbreaking collection of self-portraits, Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980), finds her in the role of a Hollywood damsel in the style of a classic noir film.
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Sure, the Coen brothers also released a comedic Western this year, but all things considered, I preferred Damsel, written and directed by another brother pair: David and Nathan Zellner.
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T-Nasty emerges with a Duke shirt, incinerates Louisville dude with some kind of blue fire clap, and rescues the fair damsel with the help of his optic blasts.
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Women have generally been pigeonholed into one of two categories in comics: the fierce and badass warrior chick, or the girlfriend/damsel in distress, helpless and in the background.
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Side by side with her sister Bella, Hadid proved she's no damsel in distress — freeing herself from her attacker's grasp with a kick and an elbow to his head.
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Her story always starts in these objects when her power is possessed, her head severed and turned into a weapon, whether she's a damsel in distress or a monster.
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"She was not the damsel in distress who was forced to depend on a man for protection because she could not fight back," one critic wrote back in 2003.
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Beginning a long-running tradition of true love curing all, "Snow White" is the very first damsel in distress to be woken by her prince and one true love.
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Another significant shift from the previous films is the role of Cathy Mueller (Abbie Cornish), who gets to do a lot more than be the damsel or the wife.
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I'm excited to step out of the damsel role and step into whatever comes next — I don't really know if she's going to be the hero or the villain.
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" The concept of being revirginized remains "silly" to her: "I feel the same way about virgin as damsel or maiden: These words are used to demean and infantilize women.
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We wanted her to pull a sword and not be a damsel in distress, and that is what people respect about Snow White is she's a fearless warrior for good.
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Where early Daredevil episodes used her as a plot device — a love interest turned into a damsel in need of rescuing — Iron Fist sees her learning how to fight back.
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Robert Pattinson stars in Damsel alongside Mia Wasikowska — a western written and directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner that throws into question the craziest things people do for love.
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Lois being a damsel in distress made me roll my eyes, but at least Superman dropping everything to rescue her kind of makes sense within the movie's own twisted logic.
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The Internet-famous Easter Bunny vigilante says he sprung into action without thinking twice about the fact he was rocking a furry suit ... because he'd spotted a damsel in distress.
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The character has faced a lot of criticism, from occasional "damsel-in-distress" status to the very awkwardly handled reveal in Avengers: Age of Ultron about her inability to have children.
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Melania might live on the top floor of a gilded tower, but she's no damsel in distress in need of a knight to defend her honor or come to her rescue.
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Whether it's saving a damsel in distress from a sexual predator on Friday Night Lights, cooking meth on Breaking Bad or turning a bad guy into literal hamburger meat on Fargo.
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"A damsel in distress gets undressed when a man from the midwest puts to rest a world that's obsessed with the priceless, also know as 'the shiny,'" the video description reads.
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The trend is clear in YA, where more straightforward retellings often pass a kind of judgment on the nature of fairy-tale tropes, like the damsel in distress, that are damaging.
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In the 2018 Halloween, the pure white damsel has become a tough gunslinger, but one who feels a little repellent, a little too much like a survivalist in waiting for armageddon.
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Paranoid Androids • William, our test subject for Westworld's morally deleterious effects on the guests, overcomes his aversion to violence by gunning down a wanted man and saving a damsel in distress.
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In the first movie, "Jack Reacher" (2012), the menace begins with a multiple shooting that leads to a conspiracy, false charges against Reacher, a damsel in distress and swarms of villains.
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"She combines emotions and elements that are stereotypically gendered male and female (male pride, a male dragonslayer, a damsel in distress) and then claims agency for herself and others," Schubart writes.
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From one angle, it plays like an old-school exploitation flick, one of those damsel-in-distress freakouts in which an intrepid heroine faces down danger in a skin-baring top.
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A clean-shaven Bluto, for example, is interested in stealing Popeye's spinach more than he is the heart of Olive Oyl, who has cast aside the role of damsel in distress.
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What follows is a witch-against-witch battle for Ruggiero's soul — with a memorable, all too quick appearance by Margot Rood, as Alcina's damsel Oreste — that seems to prefigure opera history.
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Ms. Fabray continued to do stage work (in 2007 she appeared in "The Damsel Dialogues" in Sherman Oaks, Calif.), but said more than once that live television was her first love.
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Again, though, "You" plays with those edges -- and at least makes them interesting -- by refusing to make Beck a helpless damsel or wholesale victim, at least through the five episodes previewed.
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In "Jessica Jones," the Marvel adaptation on Netflix, Jessica is no damsel — she possesses superhuman strength — but she is forced into sex slavery by the mental powers of her nemesis, Kilgrave.
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When it does summon the courage to address the issue at all, Tinseltown has too often distorted the facts or reverted to misogynist stereotypes — like the helpless damsel or the hysterical mistress.
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"), and the connections between the dress and the film (Stone's Valentino dress was very much a princess gown — "did she think her role in La La Land presented the typical damsel trope?
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Like pretty much every Super Mario before it, the impetus of Odyssey is a tired damsel in distress narrative: Princess Peach has been captured by Bowser, and Mario needs to rescue her.
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The Twilight actor stars in the recent movie Damsel, which screened at the Berlin Film Festival, and spoke about the Time's Up culture in Hollywood during a press conference for the film.
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This isn't a genre-bending bodice-ripper about a one-dimensional historical heartthrob who's merely wish-fulfillment for viewers and a damsel in distress who finds herself lost in 18th-century Scotland.
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Gorgeously filmed in Utah and on the Oregon shoreline (and featuring a splendid cameo by Robert Forster), "Damsel" may feel 20 minutes too long, but it fills them with attitude and cheek.
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With Stone, I worried that the only times we would see her best stuff would be at awards shows and when she played Peter Parker's damsel in a dreary Spider-Man reboot.
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Still, buried in that Eeyore-ish lament, there's something else: Abby's girlish fantasy of herself as a "fucking damsel" longing for rescue—by a prince or a princess, the details don't matter.
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What proceeds is your usual Mario game plot, with a damsel in distress who needs the help of a hero to escape a mafia-style boss with tons of goons stalking about town.
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Fed up with the sexist ways they've been treated—Daphne for being positioned as the damsel in distress and Velma for never getting credit for her brilliant ideas—the gang at Mystery Inc.
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She is physically one of the strongest Muppets, the only one with real combat skills, and even as the main girl in a largely-male ensemble she is rarely the damsel in distress.
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The scientists reared the grey and white damsel fish in water with levels of carbon dioxide comparable to those predicted for coming decades and examined changes in genes and proteins in their brains.
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But when we first see her in half-light standing over the bloodied body of a naked man, she registers not as the femme fatale in the picture but the damsel in distress.
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Many critics of BJD were quick to point out that Bridget is often depicted as a damsel in distress, waiting for her "knight on a white charger" to come in and rescue her.
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Hiding in this messy mug is a Hollywood treasure ... give it all you got as you hunt through the silly snap and try to determine the blue-eyed damsel in the flawed photo.
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DAMSEL Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska and a miniature horse that was the talk of Sundance star in this tongue-in-cheek western from the brothers David and Nathan Zellner ("Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter").
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She initially looks like a fairly standard crime-picture damsel in distress, too meek and damaged to be a femme fatale, but just as capable of drawing a hero into a deadly conflict.
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There's also the weird phenomenon of guys never trying to tackle me, presumably because of some archaic notion that it would be wrong to put a challenge in against an inherently weak damsel.
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"It came up as a response to seeing the way that New York responded to Hurricane Sandy, and how people were grossly underprepared – specifically, girls in damsel in distress mode," Schlossberg told the website.
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She doesn't have any housing issues anymore, either: after rescuing the kitten from her roadkill fate, Hawley decided to officially adopt his furry damsel in distress, whom he named Sticky, reports The Statesmen Journal.
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Be it the femme fatale, the proper lady, the damsel in distress, Burkhart effortlessly (and gleefully) subverts audience expectations by blurring the lines between the public and private, juxtaposing the pristine with the profane.
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In 1973 came "The Way We Were," in which the Sleeping Beauty was no longer a damsel in distress but a blond-haired and blue-eyed creature named Robert Redford — dressed in white, no less.
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The image — bizarrely comic and mildly menacing — occurs during the later stages of "Damsel," but it handily encapsulates the tone of a movie that turns the classic western into something wackily eccentric and entertainingly original.
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This imaginary coach seater would be the set where I would assume a Neeson-esque role and battle my way through a gang of baddies to save a kidnapped damsel at the back of the car.
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For starters, the imagery wouldn't have been nearly as impactful if the men had come to Captain Marvel's aid; in fact, that may have cheapened the storyline (no one needs the tired damsel-in-distress trope).
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The actor has since gone on to make over a dozen movies, including Damsel — a western written and directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner that throws into question the craziest things people do for love.
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And the movie's love story is surprisingly sweet, especially for those first two-thirds (before Morena Baccarin's Vanessa becomes a generic damsel in distress), something that plays into Reynolds's previous success in the romantic comedy genre.
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"We keep being thrown off the scent by the killer constantly bringing up Polly's safety and her in danger, making the average viewer see her as a damsel in distress in hiding," Kinney wrote on Reddit.
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It only takes Cheryl laying on the damsel-in-distress act pretty thick and Penelope offering a good word to get Archie into a prestigious music program for him to make a deal with the devil.
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Miles away from a traditional damsel in distress, she is refreshingly calm, tough, quick-thinking and competent, whether she is whittling a crutch into a sharpened stake or fashioning a hazmat suit from a shower curtain.
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As a chemical engineer pursuing a dream to write Bollywood scripts, Dhaliwal said her latest film was meant to be an adaption of P.G. Wodehouse's "A Damsel in Distress" that she turned into an LGBT+ story.
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Hints toward the latter include the remarkably grisly "Anatomical Venus"—an anonymous Italian creation, from 1780-85, of a lovely damsel laid wide open from throat to crotch—and the " 'Auto-Icon' of Jeremy Bentham" (703).
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The sole drawback for these performers must be the material — Ms. Yeoh coasts through her role; Mr. Jones cavorts like a child in a sandbox; and Ms. Alba struggles helplessly to invigorate her damsel in distress.
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Nothing like a good ol' fashioned street fight -- with a hint of MMA action -- to top off a night out on the town ... and this one even has a hype man and a very distressed damsel!
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Lij is one of the novella's few weak points; while his quasi-autistic presentation and relationship with Desmond are beautifully rendered, he has little agency in the story, and effectively functions as its damsel in distress.
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I'll reserve judgment for the final game since Breath of The Wild actually did something clever with Nintendo's other major princess: She was the real brains of the story and not a weepy damsel in distress.
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All the other usages — for the bird (a type of crane), the fish, the dragonfly, the geological spires we call hoodoos — all somehow refer to the qualities of said young woman of noble birth, a damsel.
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There was clearly an appreciated effort by book writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) to give the character a bit more agency than she is typically granted, less damsel in distress than spunky heroine.
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Years later, when Cameron contacted her out of the blue to see if she'd commit to "Terminator 2," Hamilton had only one request: Instead of playing the damsel in distress again, she wanted Sarah to go crazy.
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But the model proved she's no damsel in distress, as she got to unleash a few of the powerhouse boxing moves she's mastered, freeing herself from her attacker's grasp with a kick and an elbow to the head.
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Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson ostensibly star -- him as an intrepid adventurer recruited to lead the perilous expedition, her as a war photographer, happily spared the usual damsel in distress shrieking while being held in a giant palm.
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At the European premiere of the new film on Tuesday, Robbie proved she doesn't just play a damsel in distress on the big screen, she also is in desperate need of a helping hand in real life as well.
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And Adrienne Barbeau makes for an all-time-great damsel in distress who's helpful to the hero and able to take care of herself but still captures hearts when the rogues are about to get the better of her.
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There is a matter-of-factness to Ripley's heroism: she is not a screaming damsel in distress (a role unfortunately fulfilled by Lambert), and her sexuality is largely irrelevant, even though the film is shot through with body horror.
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Written by Hilary Goldman and Kevin McAuley and presented by the Gallery Players in Brooklyn, this hourlong musical presents Snow White as more the mistress of her own destiny than a fragile damsel to be rescued by a prince.
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Scene City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' Mariah Carey may be one of the world's best-selling female recording artists, but in recent years she has seemed less like a chart-busting diva than a damsel in perennial distress.
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Sarah Connor was no longer a wide-eyed damsel in distress dressed head to toe in pastels; thanks to chin-ups in her cell at the hospital where she was institutionalized, she'd transformed her entire body into a weapon.
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" This blamelessness feeds into an old societal trope of "the damsel in distress" creating a cyclical process in which media producers present white victims as more relatable and media consumers find their stories, through repeated exposure, to be more "universal.
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If he's any kind of feminist you'd never know it, so be glad the one where the "damsel in shining armor" fails to rescue the "white knight in distress" compensates for the "Badgering the Witness" charges and "No Hard Feelings" g'bye.
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Damsel is a very modern twist on a western that seems to be about love, and learning to listen to people, and maybe about what happens when you wind up in a different role than you expected to be in.
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How can she be the woman-let-me-roar candidate with decades of policy expertise behind her and, at the same time, be the damsel in distress who needs the moderators to fight her battles against her incompetent, inexperienced opponent?
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She represents a particularly awkward moment in the changing portrayal of women onscreen: She's a careful balancing act between damsel in distress and modern woman of action, a would-be feminist icon who's also a sultry bodice-ripper subjugation fantasy.
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This issue really delivers on the promise of the title: We see Lois as almost as large a character in this work as Superman himself, even though she falls into the "damsel in distress" role by the end of the comic.
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It's the kind of material that would lend itself well to movie soundtracks, and in fact, the group has scored movies like the 2012 drama "Kid-Thing" and the coming comedy "Damsel," a western starring Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska.
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"Mannix" was also notable as one of the first regular series to provide a leading role to an African-American: Gail Fisher joined the show in its second season as Mannix's secretary, frequent damsel in distress and occasional potential love interest.
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Beverly is not the damsel in distress in the Fukunaga-Palmer script; instead, she's an active agent who decides, along with her friends, to go down to It's lair and kill Pennywise before he can make any more adults do horrific things.
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Between the lines: Telenovelas, born decades ago as a staple of Latin American and Spanish culture, have since evolved to become shorter and less reliant on the "damsel in distress" romantic melodrama theme than they were during their peak in the 1990s.
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Some saving graces in the film are Elizabeth's scenes in which she briefly defies the damsel-in-distress trope—like when she makes a smoke signal or when she escapes danger and frees Jack's crew—though she unfortunately does not totally break it.
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What happens to Maeve in Episode 6 is a variation of what happened in the previous episode to Dolores, who gunned down a pack of ex-Confederate outlaws and chose to pursue a destiny more assertive than her damsel-in-distress loop.
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In arguably her most famous role as investigative journalist Seema Sohnithe, in the 1987 superhero blockbuster-smash "Mr India," Sridevi redefined the typical damsel in distress female lead, mixing a daring sexuality with intelligence and comic charm to outsmart the bad guys.
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Another program, a dating show called Love Unification, pairs up North Korean women with South Korean men and sets them up with challenges that draw attention to the woman's supposed unfamiliarity with modern life, making her out to be a kind of damsel in distress.
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In 2018, though, the great movies started coming out early and didn't stop: Black Panther in mid-February; The Death of Stalin in March; The Rider and A Quiet Place in April; First Reformed in May; Hereditary and Damsel and Leave No Trace in June.
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And when Vanellope runs into some of Disney's most famous animated characters, it's the high point of the entire film, with the filmmakers skewering not just the tropes of past Disney films, but the tired damsel-in-distress tendencies of Disney princesses as a whole.
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When she's not being held captive as a damsel in distress, Lois Lane uses her powers of journalism to immediately arrive on the scene of wherever she's needed, to the degree that she can throw herself into the middle of Batman and Superman's big fight.
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"I happen to love superhero movies and I've always wanted to do one…but it was never right until now because I never wanted to play a damsel in distress, I wanted to play a woman who was strong and powerful in her own right," Williams said.
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"I went to the Women's March in Washington and someone had a sign with a photo of Dolores on it that said, 'I imagined a story where I didn't have to be the damsel,'" recalls Wood, who manages to give off a relaxed vibe while maintaining perfect posture.
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That's why it's so satisfying to watch Dolores shed the damsel-in-distress character she's been programmed to embody and then start a revolution, and to watch Maeve (Thandie Newton) hold one of the park's human employees hostage to find the daughter she had in a previous storyline.
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"King Kong," written by Jack Thorne and directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie (now playing at the Broadway Theatre, with songs by Eddie Perfect and a score by Marius de Vries), adds the subtlest tweak, accomplished solely through casting, to the story: Ann Darrow, the damsel, is black.
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But for the 1532 edition the poet introduced elsewhere an entirely new scene in which Olimpia, a beautiful and misfortune-prone damsel, is described at much greater length and in a markedly more erotic fashion, inescapably bringing to mind the great nudes of the early 16th-century Venetian masters.
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Other new characters in the mix, whom we meet over the show's first four episodes, are a group of LARPers, most notably Jenna (the hilarious Beanie Feldstein), who brings lots of wry energy to the role of the hapless damsel unwittingly turned into a creature of the night.
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She is the fallen Victorian woman in "Found," the titular "mouth that has been kissed" in "Bocca Baciata" (1859), the rosy-cheeked "Fair Rosamund" (1861), the Holy Grail-weilding "Damsel of Sanct Grael" (1874), and, in the version now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the long-locked "Lady Lilith" (1867).
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Brian Nichols Forever 21 jumpsuit; Topshop girlfriend blazer; Banana Republic "Damsel" D'Orsay pump; Dana Rebecca Designs "Sylvie Rose" bar necklace; bracelets by Sseko, Kate Spade New York and Eddie Borgo; Cuyana bag Sarah's Pro Tip: Stick with muted tones for work to keep the look sophisticated, and let the jumpsuit make the statement.
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The evolving arc of Disney princesses — from the damsel in distress Snow White in 1937 to the entrepreneurial dreamer Tiana in "The Princess and the Frog" in 2009 — gives hope that we'll see more animated stories starring young female characters who look as if they could be from anywhere around the world.
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While Princess Zelda has grown stronger and more powerful with each chapter — in the 33 years since her debut, she's evolved from a damsel in distress into the reincarnation of a powerful deity — contributors Melissa Huntley and Wind Goodfriend posit that she has never been made "whole" in the way the player-character Link has.
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Don't get me wrong: Being a kick-ass hero is an achievement for the women of the MCU, who have, especially in the early part of this 10-year-old universe, been mostly relegated to the role of girlfriend (see: Potts, Pepper; Foster, Jane), doting mom (see: every hero's mom), or damsel in distress.
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Together with screenwriters Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, Yates has mended several of Burroughs's racist, sexist views to create a film where black lives matter, where Jane (Margot Robbie) is more daring than damsel, colonialism is synonymous for white evil, and Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is as concerned with equality as he is muscular (very).
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There, Ryan meets Sandy's wife, Kirsten (Kelly Rowan), and their son/Ryan's new brother Seth (Adam Brody); plus beautiful damsel in distress next door Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton), her generally-terrible-at-life dad Jimmy (Tate Donovan), her calculating mother Julie (Melinda Clarke), her boyfriend Luke (Chris Carmack), and her best friend Summer (Rachel Bilson).
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It seems important to note that while enrolled in the same Catholic school where I was encouraged to consider my uterus as one might, say, an albatross, I was also required to read Hamlet, in which the O.G. Damsel in Distress — the hapless and inconsolable Ophelia — drowns in a brook following the news of her father's death.
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Since her inception in the midst of World War II, the iconic female warrior superhero made famous in DC Comics has made great strides in displacing traditional female tropes such as the "damsel in distress," offering instead a strong, capable heroine with a strategic mind and incredible fighting capabilities who ranks as among the finest in her trade.
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There's a damsel in distress (Banks, left alone in the mansion), enigmatic villains (Grimes and Musk), and heady oppression metaphors (Banks compares the entire ordeal of having her time wasted to white colonization of Africa.) According to Banks, she spent the past few days at the Musk estate in LA, hoping to finish a song with Grimes for her upcoming sophomore album.
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" Gellar, in particular, had reason to sign on, he wrote: "Off the back of a double bill of pretty, helpless murder victims in Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer, and her two-season role as Buffy Summers, Gellar was given a chance to prove she could be more than a Vampire Slayer or a doomed damsel in distress.
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While the entertainment industry has made efforts to depict a wider range of ethnicities, colors, sizes, and sexual orientations, it still felt like a momentous event when ABC's Once Upon a Time announced that the new Cinderella for season 7, played by Dania Ramirez, would not be the classic white damsel in distress, but rather a fierce sword-fighting Latina warrior.
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Suffice it to say it gets downright icky, as explained by Dan Callahan of TheWrap: It is probably a job for a psychiatrist to figure out just why Hurwitz felt the need to construct a damsel-in-distress story that is conducted by proxy by an immature mother who is having all of her actions dictated by her young son.
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