Filtered Analysis

Female stories

Female

Main Character Mental Sex

Witness

When Amish elders object to harboring Book—because if he dies, the policemen will come, investigate, disrupt, cause publicity, etc.,—Rachel looks at the bigger picture.  She responds that they must make it so that they never find his body, without going into details of how they would accomplish that.

The Wild Bunch

When his “family” members squabble amongst themselves, Pike gives them pep talks in an effort to hold the Wild Bunch together:
SYKES:  That was a mighty fine talk you gave the boys ‘bout stickin’ together.  That Gorch was near killin’ me—or me him—
(Green and Peckinpah, p. 33)
With Thornton closing in, and his own men ready for fight or flight, Pike looks at the bigger picture:
LYLE:  We kin stay right up here and kick hell out of ‘em.
PIKE:  No water.
DUTCH:  Make a run for the border?
PIKE:  They’d be after us every step of the way—I know Thornton.  No, I’m tired of being hunted—we go back to Agua Verde and let the general take care of those boys.
LYLE:  You’re crazy!... Back with those greasers!
PIKE:  He’s so tickled with the guns he’ll be celebrating for a week and happy to do us a favor.  Thornton ain’t going after us in there.  While they’re busy picking over old Freddy’s pockets, we’ll take the back trail off this mountain and head for town.
(Green and Peckinpah, p. 99)
NOTE:  The obstacle character, Deke Thornton, also has a female mental sex.  He too, tries to hold together his group of misfits, but by using threats.  He’s able to grasp the bigger picture of how things work, which allows him to work for Harrigan and to join Sykes at story’s end.  He can intuit what Pike is thinking at any given time, as they share the same problem solving techniques.

Rear Window

Jeff tries to hold together his theory of Thorwald as a murderer in the face of opposition from Stella, Lisa, and especially Doyle.  He’s more interested in the why and when of the murder, leaving the how to Stella and Doyle to consider, and piecing his ideas together to form the big picture.

All About Eve

Margo uses holistic problem solving: When she first becomes suspicious of Eve’s motives, Margo smokes a cigarette and thinks about all that’s been happening; she asks Birdie’s opinion of Eve; her intuition kicks in before Bill’s party, and Margo predicts “a disaster in the air.” After her blowup at the audition, Bill asks her what is wrong:
MARGO
I—I don’t know, Bill. Just a feeling, I don’t know. . .