# What Happened to Geena Davis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132 "2013-08-02T04:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/61 "2013-08-24T14:59:54Z")
She has a small but very important role, including a show-stopping monologue that’s both serious and hilarious, in a movie that’s in (some) theaters now called IN A WORLD. It’s a good movie too. She looks great. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/62 "2013-08-24T15:06:10Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > She has a small but very important role, including a show-stopping monologue that’s both serious and hilarious, in a movie that’s in (some) theaters now called IN A WORLD. It’s a good movie too. She looks great. Mmmm, Lake Bell _and_ Geena Davis? Gotta check that out! Lake Bell looks _smokin’_ hot wearing only a big tattoo on the cover of this week’s _New York_ magazine… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/63 "2013-08-24T15:33:10Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Mmmm, Lake Bell _and_ Geena Davis? Gotta check that out! Definitely do. The monologue Davis has is being directed to Bell, so they even share the most important scene of the movie together. Since Bell also wrote and directed the movie, Davis’s casting is no accident. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/64 "2013-08-24T15:36:50Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Definitely do. The monologue Davis has is being directed to Bell, so they even share the most important scene of the movie together. Since Bell also wrote and directed the movie, Davis’s casting is no accident. Yeah, the movie’s getting good buzz for writer/director/star and apparently dialect/voice talent, Ms. Bell… ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/65 "2013-08-24T18:41:33Z")
Scratch this post. I was confusing her with Andie MacDowell. Does anybody else do that? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/66 "2013-08-24T18:51:23Z")
Long Kiss Goodnight is mostly a good movie, but the one “outrun the fireball” scene utterly, completely takes me out of the movie. I could handle most of the other stunts and most are quite good. But that scene just…ehhhn. I recall Ebert singling that scene out as the signature piece for the trope before we even used the word trope. Cutthroat Island…just didn’t know what it wanted to be. Kevin Murphy of MST3K once declared that it was a movie that failed on all levels. Its not that bad it just goes nowhere, doesn’t have much charisma to any of its characters. It sort of looks like what Pirates of the Caribbean would be like if you removed the Jack Sparrow character and just had Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightly- who are both charisma voids. Geena has more presence than Knightly, but she couldn’t carry the entire movie herself. I find it is worth a rental but there are too many cringe-worthy moments. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/67 "2013-08-24T19:19:15Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Yeah, the movie’s getting good buzz for writer/director/star and apparently dialect/voice talent, Ms. Bell… It’s Voice-Over lover’s Porn! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/68 "2013-08-25T15:39:24Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > …It sort of looks like what Pirates of the Caribbean would be like if you removed the Jack Sparrow character and just had Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightly- who are both charisma voids. Geena has more presence than Knightly, but she couldn’t carry the entire movie herself… As a Knightley fan, I must object! I think she’s got charisma out the whazoo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/69 "2013-08-28T18:20:50Z")
Since it wasn’t posted yet: [Archery Tricks](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/27e28fa757/geena-davis-archery-tricks) [Behind the Scenes](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5c8bad86df/behind-the-scenes-geena-davis-archery-tricks) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/70 "2013-08-29T01:41:31Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Institute she fronts, surprisingly called The Geena Davis Institute on gender in Media. > > [http://www.seejane.org/](http://www.seejane.org/) > > She came to Australia a few years back in support of its work. I heard one excellent interview about the issue that she gave. Certainly made her sound smarter than some of your real-life presidents stapled together. > > Hopefully that’s keeping her busy. She also had some interesting things to say as the founder of the See Jane Foundation in the documentary [Miss Representation,](http://www.missrepresentation.org/) a very good documentary about how “mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/71 "2013-08-29T16:43:04Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Not to mention one of the best [monologues about a dog licking its butt](http://youtu.be/d7zYVEyG9vM?t=15s) ever recorded. That is one of my favorite scenes in the entire history of cinema. Brian Cox is a god. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/72 "2013-08-29T20:32:59Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > She has a small but very important role, including a show-stopping monologue that’s both serious and hilarious, in a movie that’s in (some) theaters now called IN A WORLD. It’s a good movie too. She looks great. I just saw that last night, it’s so good! And my friends who went with me also loved it. And Davis’s monologue was good. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132/73 "2013-08-29T20:46:29Z")
I saw her this April. She presented at a national conference I was attending. She’s busy working on her non-profit organization Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media > **[Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media](https://seejane.org/)** > > The Institute is the first and only research-based organization working within the media and entertainment industry to engage, educate, and influence content creators, marketers and audiences about the importance of eliminating unconditional bias,... I see on preview that it’s been mentioned before upthread. Oh well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-geena-davis/665132.md?page=3)