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The humbleness of the bechdel test is great. Expecting 50% or more women should has different results and is less comparable. With the exception of movies with
by anotheryou 9y ago
The humbleness of the bechdel test is great.
Expecting 50% or more women should has different results and is less comparable. With the exception of movies with very small casts, it's always a real shame to fail the bechdel test. The 50% rules are shameful in their result (100% failed), but even in an ideal world, half of the movies could fail it without anything wrong.
- colanderman 9y agoCame here to say this. The "White test" is even worse, applying the 50% requirement to three metrics. In a totally unbiased world only ⅛ of all movies would be expected to pass this test. Most of the other tests do capture the spirit of Bechdel well I feel. Their "humbleness" as you put it makes the results (e.g. of the Waithe and Villalobos tests) so much more poignant.