Glenn Close's Alex in Fatal Attraction (1987) was alleged by Susan Faludi in her 1991 book Backlash to have been made the scapegoat for a man's actions – while also inspiring the misogynistic term "bunny boiler". ![]() A Question of Silence (1982), about three women's unexplained murder of a shopkeeper, was controversial upon its release, but later deemed a feminist classic. On screen, violent women have prompted fierce debate. ![]() One sneered, "What are they going to do? Collaborate to death?"Īnd yet, there is a long legacy of violent women in culture, from Euripides' play Medea, the ancient Greek myth where a wife seeks bloody revenge on her unfaithful husband, to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 1862 novel Lady Audley's Secret, where a woman's murderousness is explained as insanity, to film femmes fatales such as Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past (1947). Critics of McGehee and Siegel's project argued that girls would never exhibit the same savagery in such a situation. William Golding's 1954 novel famously features a group of boys who descend into barbarism after being stranded on an island. When, in 2017, the directorial duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel announced their plans to create a female version of Lord of the Flies, they were roundly mocked on social media.
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