While we also see one of the other men with their family members, the rest of the men are continuing their careers in some way. Beth Johanssen has just had a baby and Commander Lewis is with her husband. In the movie she notices after being told to go to specific coordinates of the Ares III HAB, which are given to her numerically by a male character, as if she would not know them already given the amount of work that goes into a single mission.ДЄnother instance of confusing racial changingВ can be seen inВ character Ryoko, who is presumably of Japanese descent in the book, but that was castВ as a woman of Indian and British descent.ДЇinally, atВ the end of the film we see short vignettes of the lives of the astronauts back on earth. She is the satellite planner in Mission Control who, in the book, discovers on her own that Mark is still alive.

In addition, character Mindy Park is a Korean-American in the book, but for some reason was cast as a white, blonde woman. Yes, that pen-wielding character doesnвЂ™t understand social boundaries, but he actually hurts her (she reacts with вЂњow!вЂќ) while he merely intrudes upon the authority of the other men in the room. At one point another character uses her forehead to click their pen. While an improvement from the вЂњbitchyвЂќ (authorвЂ™s word, not mine) business woman trope in the book,В her character has less agency and seems less powerful in the movie. The Martian could have been improved in several ways.ДЇirst, there is the character of Annie Montrose. So close, but not quite all the way there. While still not perfect, I think itвЂ™s pushing in the right direction. The end result is a great piece of sci-fi cinema. Fortunately,В Matt DamonВ breathed life into the shallow, unemotional persona of Mark Watney, and the directors wisely left out the offensive bitsВ of WatneyвЂ™s thoughts and writings. As you might have gleaned from the title, I have read the The Martian and found it wanting in several areas, the most glaring being the treatment of the women characters in the story.

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