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.
Came 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.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 16.2 ms ] threadExpecting 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.
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.
Why don’t we first focus on getting EVERY movie to pass it? A majority of them don’t.