watching these movies that showed "girl power".
             Let's take the movie "Stella" for instance. The details in the plot and scenery were very much Greek. The taverna with the singers, the men all smoking and drinking, and the wedding scene were all very Greek. Even the personalities of the characters were-all except one: Stella (played by Melina Mercouri). Here was a woman who deep-down loved her job as a singer, loved her life the way it was, and only wanted to be happy and carefree. She would get involved with men because it's only natural for a woman to want to be with a man but she wanted it with no strings attached. That was part of her carefree attitude. She also knew that if she did have ties to a man, like marriage, her whole life would change, and she was not going to accept that. She was capable of making men fall for her all the way, and I mean to the point that they all want to marry her in the end. (I couldn't even imagine what that kind of power over men would feel like.)
             Her strength shines through many times throughout the movie. She has no fear in three separate scenes-the three duels between Stella and Milto. When Milto pretends to want to run her down in his car to get into the Paradise taverna, she stands in front of the entrance and does not move even when he steps on the gas. She doesn't run away again when Milto lights the dynamite inside the taverna and threatens to blow the whole place up. She stands her ground because she is not afraid. Finally, at the end, when Milto tells her he is going to kill her with the knife he was holding in his hands, she does not run in the other direction. In fact, she walks toward him, unafraid of her own death.
             She also shows her strength in that she follows her heart. She knows that she wants to sing in the taverna for the rest of her life. It's where she is happy. So when the men she dates tell her they want...