roles, perpetually women and their conversations and feelings are trivial. a screen writer once blogged, shelves taught by her professors quote the audience doesn t want to listen to a bunch of women talking about whatever it is women talk about. if you don t know what they re talking about. how do you know the audience doesn t want to hear it? we see it is bais baked into the system. even if that perception is not born out by the box office. they focused. looked at the top 15 grossing movies of the year and found in 2013 the films that passed the bechtel test, frozen, hunger games two they didn t pass the test by $1.5 b. amazingly, there is an audience for films that take women s lives more seriously. one film that does that was introduced to me on friday by our guesstimatet singer. there is a lot of upgrades to films. there is one i saw short term
made by films made overwhelming ily by when. women get shafted. one is the test. iconic cartoonist allison beckdale, popularized the test that asks the movie three questions. is there more than one named female character in the movie? if so, do those two women ever talk to each other? if so, do they talk to something other than a man? most movies fail the test and pore pech wait the notion that men are central and doers while women are nurtureers and adjunct and male centric. yes, the test is limited in the individual passing doesn t necessarily mean the film is good or anti-sexist as the bling ring in spring break in spite of rampant criminalality and run, lola run fail because of their unusual structures. when you look at the entirety of hollywood and see how many films fail, you see how often it doesn t give women meaningful