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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 165 | 'Captain Marvel' Review: Feminist Film? | Roaming Millennial: Uncensored

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we review Marvel's latest film, 'Captain Marvel,' and ask whether it's as big a feminist statement as actress Brie Larson has led people to believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to. Hey guys welcome back to the show today. We'll be doing a review of Captain Marvel, which just came out.

0:25.0

But first, a special announcement for any of my friends in the Arizona area.

0:29.0

On March 31st, I will be speaking at Northern Arizona University, so if you would like to attend the details for that will be on my Facebook page.

0:35.7

And for those of you who can't be there in person, no worries, as always, we will be recording the event for the show.

0:41.2

You see, that's how much I care about you guys. I travel with

0:43.6

cameras and tripods and microphones even though they're super heavy. But anyway

0:48.4

back to Captain Marvel. Now if you've been on the internet within the past six weeks or so, odds are you will have heard

0:55.5

about the controversy surrounding the movie, or more specifically, the lead actress Brie Larson

1:00.3

who plays Captain Marvel.

1:01.9

You see, before Brie Larson had ever opened her

1:04.1

mouth about this movie people were already skeptical of her based on something

1:08.1

she said about a previous film she was in a wrinkle in time. I do not need a

1:12.1

40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work for him about a

1:15.0

wrinkle in time. I do not need a 40 year old white dude to tell me what didn't work for him about a wrinkle in time. It wasn't made for him.

1:17.0

Maybe I'm interpreting that the wrong way, but could you just for a second

1:21.0

imagine what would happen if a male film star told a female

1:25.2

reviewer who didn't like his action movie that he didn't care because it wasn't

1:29.4

made for her. Just take a minute, run that scenario in your head. Let me know what you think.

1:36.0

It's possible that I and other people are overreacting to that common, but you've got to understand in terms of popular culture,

1:42.0

we are at a point where

1:43.4

audiences are tired of having progressive politics shoved down their throats and

1:48.0

this is especially true for film franchises that have kind of given the middle

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