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Originally Posted by Sculpt
OK, so you suspect the original had the daughter committing suicide, but the director updated it to something else, such as attacking the father and not ending it all? I understand you're speculating a bit cause you didn't hear the director's Q&A.
I guess there have been films where the female main character commits suicide at the end, like The Haunting, kind of in Carrie, but that's extremely uncommon, not sure I would call that an 'older-times trope'. Not really sure how the Me-too movement moves the scale on the daughter committing suicide or not... you know, compared to the decision of whether or not the film maker would even make a film about a dude who uses his daughter to entice women to his home where he can torture/kill them in light of Me-too.
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Well, more than the spcific element of suicide, I was more thinking of the idea of artists openly admitting to changing their art because it did not fit the ideas of the current age. What I do know is that the movie is referred to as post-Me Too torture porn.
I guess his idea was changing a submissive character into an assertive heroine who makes men like her father answer and pay for their actions. That said, your point is valid as well.
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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Do you think modern films make the females less damsels in distress, as I do?
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Depends on how you define the D.I.D., I guess.
I mean, what is the most recent example of such a damsel in distress that you can think of?