To paraphrase Clausewitz, sport is the continuation of war by other means. As in war, the Americans are very enthusiastic, they perform very well for a short time, but if it lasts more than a week they randomly fall apart and then pretend they were never interested in it to begin with. If the entire tournament were held across two days you'd probably win it every time.

The movie's bad, but Variety repeatedly pushing this headline is scummy behaviour. They actually have a nice story in there: how a girl with no connections goes from washing dishes and filming audition tapes from her little attic bedroom to fronting major franchise movies. Quite far down that interview, they drop the usual gender politics bait question, and then they make a pretty short, silly and off-the-cuff response into the headline, which they then re-post again and again and again — more or less guaranteeing the very backlash they pretend to be concerned about.