Epic Fantasy and the Bechdel Test
Jul. 24th, 2010 10:36 pmFor a while now I've been meaning to write about and thus making odd notes about the subject:
How much epic fantasy passes the Bechdel Test? All, most, some, little?
This isn't that post. I mean, not the one I may eventually write about the roles of women in epic fantasy.
The Bechdel Test (or Bechdel/Wallace Test), by the way, was originally devised for film and goes like this:
a film passed the Bechdel Test if
1) It has at least two women in it,
2) Who talk to each other,
3) About something besides a man.
And it is quite astounding, once you start looking at things with the Bechdel Test in mind, how many narratives do not in fact pass the test.
So, what is your observation?
How much epic fantasy passes the Bechdel Test? All, most, some, little?
How much epic fantasy passes the Bechdel Test? All, most, some, little?
This isn't that post. I mean, not the one I may eventually write about the roles of women in epic fantasy.
The Bechdel Test (or Bechdel/Wallace Test), by the way, was originally devised for film and goes like this:
a film passed the Bechdel Test if
1) It has at least two women in it,
2) Who talk to each other,
3) About something besides a man.
And it is quite astounding, once you start looking at things with the Bechdel Test in mind, how many narratives do not in fact pass the test.
So, what is your observation?
How much epic fantasy passes the Bechdel Test? All, most, some, little?