Hardcore or Bimbo? - women in martial art films

[Beth_88]

Empowering or Degrading?

what do you think about women's representation in martial art films?

[Paco]

Uma in "Kill Bill" is the best (empowering, non-bimbo) portrayal of the female martial artist (who doesn't lose her feminine side or maternal instincts, btw) in film I've seen to date.
Haven't seen the films, but just looking at the trailers you can tell "Ultraviolet" and "Aeon Flux" capitalize on the bimbo factor (costumes).

[Cheesalicious]

Uma in "Kill Bill" is the best (empowering, non-bimbo) portrayal of the female martial artist (who doesn't lose her feminine side or maternal instincts, btw) in film I've seen to date.

Lucy Liu, Gogo, and the other members of Bill's death squad (I forgot the name) were also very positive images of women.

[aseepish]

On the Hong Kong/Taiwanese side, I think characters portrayed by Angela Mao (1970s, was also in Enter the Dragon), Michelle Yeoh (all those Jackie Chan/Samo Hung films) , and Maggie Cheung (Hero) were more positive than bimbo-esque.

[GQchris]

Kelly Hu or Hsu as the enemy of Wolverine really got me going...

[BoarSpear]

I wanna see Thelma and Louise remade with Milla and Juliette lewis in the lead roles.

[OmaPlata]

Empowering or Degrading?

what do you think about women's representation in martial art films?

I liked bruces sister in enter the dragon and some of those hookers the bad guy had at the palace