"It passed the Bechdel test on every scene, almost. They don’t talk about men at all." https://t.co/SSTRRo7B2t
— Broadly (@broadly) January 24, 2018
-Originally Disney offered the girls a film but the band didn't like the script which Spice World script writer Kim Fuller said, "It was a bit Disney-fied, " Kim remembers. "I think it was about a young single mother of one of the girls, fighting hardship to form the band."
-Theatrically trained actor Richard Grant said the films unconventional approach to filming scene's worked. Grant said they were given an outline and everyone in the scene had to improvise.
-The film's distributor/producers gave the girls free reign and control. The girls shot and took out material they didn't see fit. All five were basically co prodcuers/directors of the film. Critics universally panned the film but it was one of the most successful films starring an all lead female cast. Nobody gave them the credit they deserved because they were the Spice Girls.
-Spice world became a box office smash making $101 million worldwide and was shot with a budget of $26 million.
Gimmick or not, the Spice Girls message of girl power uplifted young women and boys alike. Even though they were manufactured the girls controlled their destiny and broke free of their former management, went to every record label to only be numerously rejected and sought out producers who refuse to work with them because they thought female bands wouldn't sell. The girls persisted and became one of the biggest girl groups in history.
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