{"id":15213,"date":"2026-05-09T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/it-was-a-really-important-film-the-2011-movie-emily-blunt-believes-changed-hollywood-forever-far-out-magazine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:12:02","slug":"it-was-a-really-important-film-the-2011-movie-emily-blunt-believes-changed-hollywood-forever-far-out-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/it-was-a-really-important-film-the-2011-movie-emily-blunt-believes-changed-hollywood-forever-far-out-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a really important film\u201d: the 2011 movie Emily Blunt believes changed Hollywood forever – Far Out Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many films have been deemed to have changed Hollywood<\/a>, some being no-brainers, like Citizen Kane, Star Wars, Jaws<\/em>, The Godfather, <\/em>and 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>, all of which have been declared undisputed cinematic classics,\u00a0but there are also the more recent movies that have had a hand in shaping the ever-changing landscape of the industry.
These films might not be uttered in the same breath as Casablanca<\/em> or Sunset Boulevard<\/em>, such as the animated kids\u2019 films Ratatouille<\/em> or the comedy Mean Girls<\/em><\/a>, which are not exactly seen as high-brow, but their influence and impact have hardly gone unnoticed since their respective releases in the 2000s.
Emily Blunt, who broke through into Hollywood with a role in the rather influential comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>, thinks that many people are too harsh on these kinds of films, typically female-led comedies, which aren\u2019t seen as important. But that\u2019s just not the case, and there\u2019s a specific film that she believes played a pivotal role in developing the Hollywood landscape into something a lot more welcoming for female stars.
Talking to The Telegraph<\/em>, she once said, \u201cI think there\u2019s a tendency to think women can\u2019t be funny. But you look at someone like Kristen Wiig, I think people like her are real trailblazers for girls in the comedy world. If you love it or hate it, you can\u2019t deny that Bridesmaids<\/em> is such a big film for women. It was a really important film to happen.\u201d\u00a0
Released in 2011, Bridesmaids<\/em> revolves around a largely female cast, and the movie is packed with dirty (sometimes poo-themed) jokes. The female characters are messy, outrageous, crude, and hilarious, and despite the fact that women have long been expected to present in a completely opposite way to this onscreen, Bridesmaids<\/em> was a hit.\u00a0
The movie proved to be a massive turning point for female-led comedies in Hollywood, although producer Judd Apatow once admitted that the cast and crew didn\u2019t actively go into the project with the ambition to execute such dramatic change; it just happened. He told The Daily Beast<\/em>, \u201cWe didn\u2019t think it was any different than something like The House Bunny<\/em> or Baby Mama.<\/em> So we didn\u2019t think we were breaking any new ground. We just thought it was a fun thing to do.\u201d\u00a0
Interestingly, Melissa McCarthy earned an Oscar nomination<\/a> for her role as Megan Price, which broke new ground for the comedy genre, for it\u2019s rare for an actor appearing in something on the level of Bridesmaids<\/em>, a mid-budget, scatalogically-powered comedy, to bag an Oscar, but clearly, something had shifted.\u00a0
The film paved the way for the likes of Pitch Perfect<\/em>, which emerged the following year, as well as Girls Trip, Bad Moms, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Ocean\u2019s 8, The Heat<\/em>, Trainwreck<\/em> and Booksmart. <\/em>While some are undeniably better than others, you can\u2019t ignore the influence that Bridesmaids<\/em> has had on an increase in female-led comedies, many of which are not afraid to show women in a not-so-flattering light.\u00a0
For years, comedy was predominantly the domain of men, but thanks to the success of movies like Bridesmaids<\/em>, as Blunt notes, the genre has finally become a considerably more equal playing field than before. <\/p>\n

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Many films have been deemed to have changed Hollywood, some being no-brainers, like Citizen Kane, Star Wars, Jaws, The Godfather, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, all of which have been declared undisputed cinematic classics,\u00a0but there are also the more recent movies that have had a hand in shaping the ever-changing landscape of the industry. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}