Movie Reviews - Bechdel Test

[GURPS]

SWEDISH CINEMAS LAUNCH FEMINIST MOVIE RATING



STOCKHOLM (AP) -- You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profanity or violence. Now movie theaters in equality-minded Sweden are introducing a new rating to highlight gender bias, or rather the absence of it.

To get an "A" rating, a movie must pass the so-called Bechdel test, which means it must have at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

"The entire `Lord of the Rings' trilogy, all `Star Wars' movies, `The Social Network,' `Pulp Fiction' and all but one of the `Harry Potter' movies fail this test," said Ellen Tejle, the director of Bio Rio, an art-house movie theater in Stockholm's trendy Sodermalm district.

 

[GURPS]

I have heard Debbie Does Dallas, has a 1/2 doz women in a locker room talking for 15 minuets - discussing raising money to go to a cheer leading competition

Bechdel test

What is now known as the Bechdel test was introduced in Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. In a 1985 strip titled "The Rule",[7][8] an unnamed female character says that she only watches a movie if it satisfies the following requirements:[4]
It has to have at least two women in it,
who talk to each other,
about something besides a man.[8][9]
Bechdel credited the idea for the test to a friend and karate training partner, Liz Wallace.[9][10]
The test, which has been described as "the standard by which feminist critics judge television, movies, books and other media", moved into mainstream criticism in the 2010s.[11] By 2013, an Internet newspaper described it as "almost a household phrase, common shorthand to capture whether a film is woman-friendly",[12] and the failure of major Hollywood productions such as Pacific Rim (2013) to pass it was addressed in depth in the media.[13] According to Neda Ulaby, the test still resonates because "it articulates something often missing in popular culture: not the number of women we see on screen, but the depth of their stories, and the range of their concerns."[9]
Several variants of the test have been proposed—for example, that the two women must be named characters,[14] or that there must be at least a total of 60 seconds of conversation.[15]

 

[SamSpade]

It seems to me that an AWFUL lot of porn would pass this test.
And slasher flicks.

 

[slotpuppy]

Boobies, explosions, guns, blood, fighting, car chases, these things make good movies.

 

[GURPS]

It seems to me that an AWFUL lot of porn would pass this test.
And slasher flicks.

inorite ..
... seems like more Feminist Angst