The Magnificent Women of MJHT - Page 4

Originally posted by: Senny

Sunshine, i am so glad and ever so happy that whatever days I get a chance to come here turn out to be special and I always get a chance to speak to you in one way or another and it leaves me touched and feel immensely loved :) You are blessed with the grace and warmth of a mother, the one you yearn for and see in Shilpa aunty, is already there with you and would always stay, at times we are not able to look and understand ourselves the way others do. I don't know if this is a good thing or not, but I think it is a gift, to enable and look within people and Sunshine, you are ever so blessed and gifted. May this wonderful trait always be there with you. Amen.

Coming to the post, Ripley is this Ellen Ripley we are talking about? I must sound so ignorant but I have not heard of her before, I just googled and tried to find out who she is? As per what I found she is a character of a soldier or some warrior, correct me if I am wrong Sunshine? An attempt to show women as brave and ready to fight like men seems to be made. I believe it was quite successful too.

Just like you Sunshine, for me Elizabeth and Scully would be more stronger and impactful characters than Ripley, apart from the fact that i don't know her from before but as for me strength doesn't have a limited meaning and the generally associated one, that is of physical strength and in today's film industry a show of skin and six pack. Strength is something which should come from within and its portrayal is such which can be readily learnt from. I know I don't make much sense. I will try and simplify my thoughts, I prefer those characters better who provide a new dimension to the notion of courage and strength, which is done brilliantly by Lizzy and even Beth and Jo from Little Women.

Which other characters are there Sunshine? Here I find the answer that is the female characters of MJHT. See now am on point, when would i ever learn to come on point Sunshine and you never even scold me see so I never learnt to be on target.😭

I will gather up my thoughts Sunshine and be back shortly!

Originally posted by: Mou.

as usual wonderful post sabah! i will love to come back here if i ever get time.........but u truly deserve a tight hug for this topic!🤗..

Originally posted by: ruexangel

if im better or not, is for them to judge, but it has influenced me for sure 😳, and as you said the innocence, i value that a lot, and also the courage, which has effected many Im sure, Nupur and even mayank were like a ray of sunshine in my life:)

Originally posted by: a little faith

Butterfly I missed your posts! 😆😆😆 The meandering journeys that led me to enlightenment! I missed you butterfly!

Yes, Ellen Ripley. Google gave you the facts but not her spirit, she was this ordinary woman pushed to limits and survived through inner strength. She wasn't a muscles warrior but a strong woman who didn't admit defeat. In terms of film, she was the first action heroine when all Hollywood gave us was men! Sigorney Weaver, just a revelation.

You wouldn't know because it was way before your time.

Butterfly, this post is a result of ALL our posts, our discussions, our meanderings. Did they not all come to the same point? Being a woman is a blessing, a beautiful blessing.

Thank you butterfly, for making sure I understood it better and more brightly.

I missed you. Did I say that already?😳😆 Love your amoeba

Originally posted by: Senny

Sunshine, I have missed your posts like anything. I have felt so much at home replying to your posts, feeling all nostalgic Sunshine and thinking about the Shilpa aunty thread. 😳

Whoops my bad, real bad. I have no idea and so it would be not fair to comment on Ripley for that matter. I would love to know about her after what you said. Sunshine so does her character portray strength in the way as I see in Jo, Beth and Lizzy? From that picture there on wikipedia, it seemed she is a soldier and so I said about physical strength.

It is a blessing but see I am always wondering here and there!😆 As long as you stay on target, I know I will come there may be after quite a while and you are ever so patient to wait for me to come and join you.

I am yet to comment Sunshine on the post.😆

Much love,

Senny.

Originally posted by: Miracle_leo

wow sabah u made such an amazing post 👏 n the way u describe its awesome 👍🏼.i am proud to be mjht.

Originally posted by: a little faith

let us enjoy the appetizers a little longer. That picture is probably from the fourth installment, but the original incarnation was this normal woman left to fight 'aliens,' save herself instead of waiting for a man to rescue her. It is not just a sci fi gory horror, but it had this metaphor of a woman 'saving herself' for the men in the film could NOT be counted upon, there was no knight in shining armour. Just betrayal and greed. Then add some aliens, a metaphor for people who without feelings, remorse just live on without a thought for others, even an after thought!

In the second film, they brought in this added element of motherhood, about how far she goes to protect a child, after people failed to take care of hers.

Ripley remains a woman, a girl, a person who falls in love, regret of having to be separated from her child in order to provide for her, then losing her; not just letting herself drown she continues on, and at the brink when all is lost, when people would say, why is she fighting on? She finds that inner strength, that will to survive against fear, hatred and hostility of people and world alike for that sake of an innocent child.

In some way, I think motherhood saves many women, it connects them to this world, the earth. It brings back a love for it, to make it beautiful for a child regardless of the fact that it has shown them nothing but coldness.

I may be wrong but I believe there is this natural care, this mother nature aspect in all women, or I should say most, that enables us to nurture ALL we meet, not only our own. Like shilpa Aunty with Nupur; Nupur with Gunjan; Gunjan with Ash, the cycle continues on.

Love Sabah