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Her solo movie - set in the past - will have to contend not only with her eventual death but also with the long history of harassment the character has endured.
In the case of Black Widow, Marvel waited so long to give Scarlett Johansson her own spin-off movie that her character was killed off in the franchise in the run-up to this year’s film.
In reality, their delayed appearance can be attributed to Hollywood’s anxiety that audiences wouldn’t pay to watch female superheroes. This has resulted in wonky work-arounds, like convoluted time-jumping plots to explain why incredibly powerful superheroes like Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman were missing from their respective cinematic universes for nearly a decade. When women are handed a small piece of these franchises, they face an uphill battle to shoehorn feminist narratives into a space that was never designed for them. They cast the female characters as Madonnas or whores. The massive franchises that now monopolize summer blockbuster season - Marvel, DC Comics, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Mission: Impossible, James Bond - were built primarily by straight white men. But making a female-led action movie is more complicated than handing women weapons and sprinkling girl-power phrases into the script. This year alone, an unprecedented five of the top 10 projected highest-grossing movies will be helmed by women: Yan’s Birds of Prey, Niki Caro’s Mulan, Cate Shortland’s Black Widow, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 and Chloé Zhao’s The Eternals. Several other female directors will soon face a similar dilemma.
But like Tonya Harding, Harley Quinn has a lot of baggage. Robbie produced the film her production company’s worthy goal is to bring complicated women to the big screen with movies like I, Tonya. Even as Harley begins to establish her reputation as a supervillain in her own right, the Joker’s disembodied voice taunts her. Harley performs every breakup cliché in the book: cutting her hair eating ice cream straight from the carton and adopting a pet to keep her company, albeit a hyena instead of a dog or cat. Birds of Prey is framed as a breakup movie it’s subtitled And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (“… from the Joker” is implied).
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