If we look we will find the influential and resourceful male leaders who can save the lives of potentially great men.
In his magical worlds, female characters are often smarter, braver and more resourceful than their male counterparts.
Take two very different releases, both with resourceful women giving male abductors a run for their money.
It is because there are so few actors in this category that casting directors and producers have to become resourceful in finding male leads, to the point of poring over their lists of dramatic actors, looking for those who can carry a tune.
Their likeability is such – and is projected in such a canny way through their nebbish male characters, and resourceful female ones – that it seems like a solecism to criticise them too strenuously.
The dramatic potential is heightened because female detectives, without the physical strength of their male counterparts, have to be more resourceful, intelligent and tactical to solve the case.
But, unlike their male analogues, they are not just cleverly resourceful and determined to survive.
The films of Wes Craven, George Romero, even David Cronenberg, are rich in strong, resourceful female characters who aren't simply butt-kicking male surrogates like (terrific though she is) Sigourney Weaver in the first Alien movie.
As Hubbard said, before switching to a female protagonist, he had been "struggling with trying to distinguish him from all the other male superspies from the era extraordinarily handsome, intelligent, knowledgeable, resourceful, and so on.
