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For the prosecution: Salon For the defense: Girls on Film With thanks to Kate Kaminski and the Bluestocking Film Series who can be followed here.
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If all this Bechdelling has you thinking about making some of your supporting characters women, but you’re not absolutely sure how to execute it well, fear not. It’s easy. Give the woman characters a sexually neutral place in the story. Who she’s having sex with, or wants to, or who wants to have sex with…
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Ask any producer who has Scarlett Johansson or Viola Davis’s agent on the phone whether that cop character could be a woman. That is how binary we are. In dollar signs. It is flashy news that Bechdel-passing scripts did better with paying audiences than Bechdel-failers last year. So now that it’s ridiculously simple and can…
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How does the Bechdel Test do at the Box Office? | VITAMIN W How those top 50 movies of 2013 broke down into passing the Bechdel test and making $1.56B more than the ones that failed. You will notice that they don’t all stand out as incredible, groundbreaking feminist films. Fast and Furious 6 passes….
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