Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
The Hours comes to mind. That was a great great film.
I think the key difference overall is that Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are/were pinned up all over the country on girl's walls. They're both seen as attractive guys by women, and we all know lots of girls find men in cowboy style clothes are considered 'hot'. If you had two girls that were pinups dressed up in attractive clothes, chances are the entire thing would be taken a lot less seriously by both hardline feminists and men (in general) alike. I know Nicole Kidman is considered attractive by a lot of people but I don't think they base that attraction on her portrayal of Virginia Woolf. It's just the way it goes, I guess. I find it has a parallels with comedians - men, attractive or not, are taken seriously... while very few attractive women succeed as comedians. I guess it's the way men are easily distracted by a woman's looks.