Movie Equality

It may be shortsighted to bemoan the lack of father and female child movies. After all there is always "Nim's Island" (the typical, tepid, two fish-out-of-water tale of daddy-daughter). BUT where are the good ones? Or at least the interesting ones?

Where are the "buddy" flicks, like the father-son "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." The first IJ in nineteen years is a bit creaky, perhaps showing the absence of Sean Connery, the real father to Harrison Ford's (60+ year old son), but it will still make scows of moneys.

Are there ones little heard of by western audiences, like Bollywood star Anil Kapoor's "Gandhi, My Father?" [Earlier: Moving Images] Couldn't there be a daughter facing difficulties with an overwhelming pop whose story could fill a megaplex screen?

Why can't one dad get so obsessed and made so delusional by his daughter's fate that he takes over his child's movie studio and creates a rant, à la Mohamed Al Fayed. The father of Dodi, Princess Diana's final beau, threw an estimated £7 million at the screen to promote the idea that Britain's Queen is "a corrupting force;" her hubby Philip has Nazi links and that "the establishment" and media are colluding to cover up the murder (of D&D).

So that's the WD challenge. Go crazy. Let's hyperbolize the daddy-daughter relationship to the same extent as the father-son one. Equally good or equally bad. It's time for equality.

** And while we're at it let's change the name to "cinepa." **