Should someone do a movie where Santa Claus is a woman?

[Jayson1]

I know the issue of a black Santa has come up before and even has the famous rant byMegan Kelly about Santa being white and acting like it's a fact or that Santa is even a real person. Also we all know he was based on a real person but the guy who was invented by Coca Cola is not that person. So what if a movie gender swaped the character?

You can even keep the Claus family names the same just give them different jobs. Nick can run the toy factory. I'm not sure if Mrs. Claus has one specific name that has been used in many different Christmas things. For some reason I am thinking it might be Martha but I might just be getting her mixed up with Superman's mom. Anyways she could fly the slay and bring the presents but she can't be Hollywood sexy. She needs to be big like Santa has always been and instead of a beard maybe just give her big white hair.

Also instead of the elves being little people why not switch it up and make them giants? Maybe hire Yao Ming and Shaq and so forth to play the workforce. Also don't do the cliche of how Nick can't do the job so someone has to fill in for him. It's been done and your not going to top Brian and Stewie taking over on "Family Guy" that one time and it ends up with them basically screwing it up in a major way. Just go with a alternate universe were Santa has always been a woman who does the job.

Jason

 

[BillJ]

I wouldn't care one way or the other if such a project happened. Santa is a fictional character, you can do a multitude of variations.

 

[SPCTRE]

Shirley MacLaine Joins Anna Kendrick in Female Santa Claus Movie ‘Nicole’

 

[Jayson1]

Shirley MacLaine Joins Anna Kendrick in Female Santa Claus Movie ‘Nicole’

That looks interesting though it does sort of go with the cliche of having to fill in for the real Santa and I really doubt they are going to make Anna Kendrick look heavy like Santa Also Anna Kendrick in a Santa outfit does present some sexual imagry which as a guy I can't say I wouldn't want to see because naughty Santa outfits is a thing but that wasn't exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking more along the lines of Aidy Bryant on SNL in that "Sumpin CLaus" music skit with Keenan Thompson.

Jason

 

[SPCTRE]

I really doubt they are going to make Anna Kendrick look heavy like Santa

if they want to make a good movie they will

 

[Jayson1]

if they want to make a good movie they will

Well it is Disney and they did the TIm Allen "Santa Claus" movies and I liked them so I figure they might be going for that category. Fun but not great and something you watch once a year around Christmas. I guess that describes most Christmas movies. I think you got only a few that people might watch out of season. "Bad Santa" would be one and maybe "Scrooged" and "Elf" because they have Bill Murray and WIll Ferrell are in them.

Jason

 

[Guy Gardener]

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[retroenzo]

She could be called...

Mary Christmas!

Thank you - I'm here all week.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I'd be more interested in a movie about Santa Claus being a serial killer.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I'd be more interested in a movie about Santa Claus being a serial killer.

I've always wanted to see a film version of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The Night Santa Went Crazy"

 

[CorporalClegg]

As a rule, I love those really, really terrible made-for-TV Christmas movies that always star one prominent B-lister opposite that person you saw on that show that one time. I'd love to see one of these were the female lead was actually Santa.

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One would assume proper vaccinations were a requirement for any would-be Santa.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Jenny apologised for that a decade ago, but no one heard, so millions of assholes continued the fight against vaccinations, still in her name.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

No reason not to, but hard to find a reason to besides to say 'Yay we made a female Santa'.

If they could find a good story reason to do it, sure. Certain people will complain about it and comedy shows will make fun of them for complaining about it. In the end, unless someone comes up with some brilliant story idea I'm not seeing, it would just be a another stupid Santa movie that happens to feature a female.

There are honestly better feminist outlets.

 

[Jayson1]

No reason not to, but hard to find a reason to besides to say 'Yay we made a female Santa'.

If they could find a good story reason to do it, sure. Certain people will complain about it and comedy shows will make fun of them for complaining about it. In the end, unless someone comes up with some brilliant story idea I'm not seeing, it would just be a another stupid Santa movie that happens to feature a female.

There are honestly better feminist outlets.

For me I just think it would be a neat twist on a old formula. Plus I kind of like the idea of seeing a kind of alternate universe take on Christmas. You could go even deeper into the idea that this is a different world and take a kind of Tm Burton aproach and go for the surreal. What if instead of living at the North Pole Santa's Workshop is on the moon. Maybe instead of reindeer she uses horses.

Jason

 

[psCargile]

And what are her gifts, clothes? In the crusade against masculine toxicity, Christmas is ruined for little boys.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'd be more interested in a movie about Santa Claus being a serial killer.

Here you go

 

[mos6507]

No reason not to, but hard to find a reason to besides to say 'Yay we made a female Santa'.

That seems to be the trend from, oh, nuBSG onward, isn't it? Most recent being Dr. Who.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I wouldn't care one way or the other if such a project happened. Santa is a fictional character, you can do a multitude of variations.

He was based a real person, it's just that what he was and his intent was warped so much over time that by the time Hollywood started making movies and TV movies about him, it was the modern iteration/interpretation of Santa.

I hate these "cause" films where it's about genitalia and race rather than telling a good story and being compelled (if there was one, after all, we wouldn't need interchanging of race and genitalia).

Since most, if not ALL of Santa's modern mythology is apparently made up, I'd be okay if there was a film (not a new idea mind you) where Santa couldn't make Christmas for some reason (he's sick/hurt/jailed/what ever) and a women (black, white, what ever), has to take over.


We do, however, have some Mrs. Clause movies.

 

[BillJ]

I hate these "cause" films where it's about genitalia and race rather than telling a good story and being compelled (if there was one, after all, we wouldn't need interchanging of race and genitalia).

Why does it matter to you? No one is forcing you to watch them. If someone wants to invest in producing a female Santa Claus movie, why would you even care? It is their money to do with what they want.

 

[gblews]

I hate these "cause" films where it's about genitalia and race rather than telling a good story and being compelled (if there was one, after all, we wouldn't need interchanging of race and genitalia).

So...if a movie has a minority actor or a woman in a role usually played by a white male actor, that is a "cause" movie, that is not about "telling a good story". You know, casting a female or minority actor in a role and telling a good story aren't mutually exclusive. Both can, and usually do, exist concurrently.

In fact, expanding the search for qualified actors regardless of race and gender, where possible (rarely is it not possible), can only ensure that you really are seeing the best actor for the role rather than just the best white male actor for the role.

I would also say that what is compelling the continued proliferation of minority and female actors these days is successful and well received productions. I'm really looking forward to the new Doctor and even though I loath most Xmas movies, I'd at least sample a movie with a female Santa, as long as the movie wasn't about her being a "female".