@ce78dee8 My access to movies, back in the day, was extremely limited. What my mother did like, though, were old, classic mysteries & noir, and that did influence me, as did the Wizard of Oz when I first saw that when I was very little. Oh, Saturday morning cartoons or those shown at the holdiays. 😃
@7b682b86 I loved the Wizard of Oz as a kid. I think my first proper exposure on screen to other worlds was Star Wars. I could tell it wasn't quite my jam, but it definitely broadened my horizons. Then a spate of fantasy films and now tv series came out and I haven't looked back since.
@ce78dee8 I first saw the Wizard of Oz on a B&W TV so I had no idea she opens the door to color. 🤣 What I liked was that the MC was female. I also always wanted her to stay in Oz.
Fantasy, though, was limited. Mostly there was sci-fi. TV gave me access to Star Trek. I saw 2001 in the theatre, Star Wars, too, with my sister when it opened in '77. There were also old sci-fi movies. Some were decent. All focused on men.
@7b682b86 ah no! You missed so much 😆 .
If I was born 10 years later I'd have had a lot more fantasy and heroine leads in books as a teen. I'm that generation writing what they were a generation too early to get themselves.
@ce78dee8 Yeah, there was an explosion of fantasy later and it was a lot of YA fantasy with heroines that led the way. I missed that by, well, a lot. 🤣
So, now I write it, just not YA (mostly). 😃
@7b682b86 its still great to get to write what you couldn't read. I'm even more recent on that frontier, writing the nonbinary lead even I wouldn't/ couldn't yet have identified as even a decade ago.
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