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a recent movie that's similar is Gravity. It doesn't even pass the reverse test since there are so few characters.

• vacri 13y ago
  The point of the test isn't to be definitive (and it was recognised as so when it was created). Of course it's going to fail in extremely contrived films like Gravity or dialogueless films. It's not even about showing women in power - so the comment about The Hurt Locker empowering the producer is kind've irrelevant. It's about movies in general not showing women and relationships between women as entities in their own right. It's about trying to move the needle back to the centre, not shoehorning women's dialogue into Koyaanisqatsi.
• gph 13y ago
  Haven't seen that one, but the first thing that popped into my head was "What about a movie like Moon?" I mean there was really just the one main character, and I suppose he talked to his wife and daughter who were both named so it gets an A grade. But they were the only two female characters that I remember and I don't think they really added a lot to the gender equality context seeing as they were the stay-at-home family back on earth. The formula is just so simplistic. If you wanted to build a comprehensive metric you'd probably want to take a few factors into consideration. Maybe a ratio of dialogue to on-screen time for female characters vs. male characters. Perhaps number of non-traditional female roles vs. traditional roles. I don't know. There should be something better than an eye-test some comic from the 80's threw out there.
  • sixothree 13y ago
    In my opinion they do not even populate the denominator, much less the numerator; but according to this test it gets a 0/1. But then again, Moon does have two female characters so maybe it deserves a 1/3.
• klipt 13y ago
  It's a one sided test so obviously biased. Like rolling a bunch of dice, then pointing at all the 5-6s and saying "too high!"