Nancy Thompson from A Nightmare on Elm Street is often remembered as one of the great ‘final girls’ of slasher cinema, but it’s a label that actress Heather Langenkamp doesn’t much care for.
The star who survived her encounter with Freddy Krueger in the 1984 franchise-starter recently suggested that the gender-specific term was sexist and condescending.
“I don’t think we should call her a ‘final girl’ anymore,” Langenkamp shared with the L.A. Times. “Because one, I want a boy to be able to play a part like this, and they’re never going to call him a ‘final boy’ — they just call him a hero. Just call a hero a hero, regardless of gender.”
The term ‘final girl’ was first popularized through the critical analysis of gender-based tropes in horror cinema, with the phrase being used in reference to the last character standing after all the rest had fallen.
The star who survived her encounter with Freddy Krueger in the 1984 franchise-starter recently suggested that the gender-specific term was sexist and condescending.
“I don’t think we should call her a ‘final girl’ anymore,” Langenkamp shared with the L.A. Times. “Because one, I want a boy to be able to play a part like this, and they’re never going to call him a ‘final boy’ — they just call him a hero. Just call a hero a hero, regardless of gender.”
The term ‘final girl’ was first popularized through the critical analysis of gender-based tropes in horror cinema, with the phrase being used in reference to the last character standing after all the rest had fallen.
- 11/2/2018
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
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