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The Bechdel test rating is for gender bias in a film
To get an A, there needs to be two named female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man.
I only came across this quite recently and once you're aware of it, you start noticing how rare it is. As a man I never thought about such things but now I am semi-consciously watching for it.
Well speaking as a female and obviously not wanting in any way to suggest any kind of gender stereotyping I think most women would rather watch a film starring than
The Bechdel test rating is for gender bias in a film
To get an A, there needs to be two named female characters who have a conversation 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 cinema in Stockholm's trendy Södermalm district.
(One hopes that there are also two male characters who talk to each other about something other than women, but I guess that's largely a given, except perhaps in real 'chick flicks' like Sex in the City)
This particular 'test' seems a crude instrument to highlight an old issue (if indeed you believe that women aren't represented fairly in cinema and that they should be).
Laura Mulvey had a lot to say on the subject, and her idea of "the male gaze" has been applied to other disciplines too.
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