'Wonder Woman' Director Slams James Cameron

James Cameron expressed some pretty outrageous opinions about heroines in film this week, and Patty Jenkins was having none of it. The Wonder Woman director thinks there's room for more than one kind of female hero in Hollywood.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Patty Jenkins has fired back after an interview in which James Cameron made disparaging comments about her movie Wonder Woman was published Thursday.

In an evening Twitter post, the director responded to Cameron's knock that the film was "a step backwards" for female protagonists and that Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman is an " objectified icon."

Jenkins went on to counter Cameron's suggestion that Terminator protagonist Sarah Connor was the ideal female protagonist. ("She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit," he said of the character played by Linda Hamilton.)

Jenkins noted that women don't need to be one thing to be a hero.

"But if women have to always be hard, tough and troubled to be strong, and we aren't free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven't come very far have we," she wrote. "I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be. There is no right and wrong kind of powerful woman. And the massive female audience who made the film a hit it is, can surely choose and judge their own icons of progress."

Cameron's comments quickly drew ire on social media after his interview with The Guardian was published Thursday.

Check out the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.

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