Analysis Of The Movie 'Warrior'

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10 Questions with Priyanka Moodley
By Micaela Krishnan
Priyanka Moodley, director of the new blockbuster film, “Warrior”, talks of her childhood inspiration and her thoughts behind the making of this new take on superheroes.
“Warrior” is your first superhero movie. Why did you choose Warrior in particular, despite the comic series’ lack of success, to be your first?
PM: Something about her always appealed to me as a kid. I think growing up as an immigrant Indian in America it was really easy to relate to Warrior, Genna Higashi, who also an immigrant. While the comics certainly didn’t do so well, she was always my favourite when I was a child and I guess that’s why I wanted her to be my first.
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I didn’t want “Warrior” to be like most superhero movies, where it’s all about the amazing superhero using his superpowers to defeat the bad guy. I wanted this movie to really focus on Warrior’s story. I wanted the audience to relate to her as a person and see her more as an equal than some powerful being and I felt the best way to achieve that would be to remove some of her powers. But, don’t worry; “Warrior” still does have the amazing fight scenes.
In “Warrior” you deal a lot with gender bias. Even after all these years of change and women empowerment why do think that it is still important to showcase sexism and gender bias.
PM: It honestly is so important that we keep showing sexism and gender bias and showing the effect it has on women. I think that even though it’s been years, like you said, the concept of gender bias is so ingrained in society that, despite all this change, there is still an undertone of sexism. I mean, whether it is a woman’s success or the treatment of women there is still that line. We need to get to the point where it isn’t, “Wow, it’s a successful female director” but just “Wow, a successful director”.
Do you think that Warrior being a female effected how you portrayed her in the film with regards to film

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