Female takes on legendary giants
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Movie companies occasionally toy around with characters from stories and legends to bring in gender demographic. How would this fare if they did, say, a lady Paul Bunyan, a lady Atlas or a lady Goliath? Into The Woods had an interesting female take on Jack & The Beanstalk, which might raise the question: what would it have been like if the main giant in Jack & The Beanstalk had been a woman? I guess it wouldn't leave much to the imagination if this had been the case nor, considering conventional fairy tale stereotypes, I rather don't think that whenever the story came about they would have a female giant who was mean AND beautiful. It just wouldn't be the fairy tale way. Antagonistic characters in fairy tales were mainly ugly (in the fairy tale way) and often killing them was the solution. I had produced a mock-up DVD cover and imdb page for a female take on Paul Bunyan, but viewed retrospectively I don't fully see how this can be possible. __________________
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I did a production of into the woods and had such a hard time during the giantess scene since I was teching it
but if the giant in jack in the beanstalk was a giantess jack might not have left and it would be a differnt story maybe even a better one