![]() ![]() ![]() On the surface, On the Basis of Sex seems like just a crowd-pleasing underdog story, but the overtness and urgency of its moods and impulses reflect that it is much more personal than it seems. When Ginsburg, played luminously by Felicity Jones, is made fun of by her male classmates and her male professor for her stark answer during recitation, Leder sees the scene as not just the adroitly written exchange of wit-filled dialogue in Daniel Stiepelman’s serviceable screenplay but as a way to lay the veiled sexism that still pervades in the present. It can even be said that Ginsburg’s story is also her story. On the Basis of Sex, Leder’s first film in 10 years, is about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who from being one of the token women accepted into Harvard Law School made a name for herself litigating for women’s rights, eventually becoming the second female justice of the United States Supreme Court.Ĭlearly, Leder fits the role of bringing Ginsburg’s important struggle to the big screen. This, despite her male peers churning failure after failure while still being given adequate work… on the clear basis of sex. When she was no longer in demand, she also struggled with second chances after a critical and box office bomb. Mimi Lede’s fall from grace as one of Hollywood’s top female directors entrusted to helm tent pole action projects like The Peacemaker (1997) and Deep Impact (1998) to someone relegated to pilots and direct-to-DVD projects after the failure her Pay It Forward (2000) is symptomatic of the sexist attitudes that pervade the movie-making business.Īt the prime of her career, Leder was one of the very few women working in not just an industry but a genre dominated by men. ![]()
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