Lolita's Fist

#Feminism ~ Decca Aitkenhead, Movies with a female lead make 15% more money. Male and female co-pays make 24% more. Source: Geena Davis: ‘Thelma & Louise changed everything for me’

Offends because of #RapeCulture. She says she doesn't want to kiss. He persuades. She says she wants to break up. He 'buts' her and they end up in bed. IMDB 360 (2011)  Actors: Rachel Weisz, Jude Law Director: Fernando Meirelles

Black and white. Becomes color when she falls in love at first sight. Bechdel-passer because they like the top down in the convertible. Seriously. IMDB Dream for an Insomniac (1996)   Actors: Ione Skye, Jennifer Aniston Director: Tiffanie DeBartolo

Dani Colman, "There’s an ongoing problem, I think, with “strong female character” being made synonymous with “any fictional woman who isn’t just window dressing”. Article: The problem with false feminism (or why “Frozen” left me cold) IMDB Frozen (2013) Actors: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

I love this film. I love the way it's done with normal today-ways, ironically referencing ways we think today about then, and the menacing presence of Hectic Death all the time. Fantastic film! IMDB Million ways to die in the West (2014) Actors: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron Director: Seth MacFarlane

#GoT. @jusjuel "THREE main female characters raped who weren’t raped in the books. I think I’m done with the show.” IMDB Game of Thrones (2011) Actors: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage

Sutherland says he believes Bullock (lawyer) should be treated equally, and sends her on an errand to fetch booze. She complies. Judd plays the 'I can't let my man do his racist-shaming, rapist-killer-protection job' trope. Why do Bullock and Judd do this? IMDB A Time to Kill (1996) Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock Director: Joel Schumacher

I watched Dexter over a while, every episode with no other movie interruptions. I was enthralled but not entirely happy. The following are episodic notes. Dexter continues to offend. She makes excuses for his violations. Dexter continues to offend. So she spoke to him in a normal voice, he violates the custody agreement anyway. Dexter continues to offend. She doesn’t call the police. He’s in her house, she has a restraining order. Dexter, I ‘get’ the code. I like the idea of Repurposing people as fish food. What a great new for a cult. Repurposing. IMDB Dexter (Series 2006) Actors: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter

Jon Cryer. "John Hughes originally wrote 'Pretty in Pink' with Blane leaving the prom and Andie and Duckie ending up together — if not romantically, then at least geographically on the dance floor. Test audiences booed this ending, so the filmmakers reshot it to have Andie and Blane end up together, which test audiences liked a lot more. Fans who hated the change refer to it as “Duckiegate". IMDB Pretty in Pink (1986) Actors: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer Director: Howard Deutch

There’s plenty of women-bashing in Frasier. Roz's mother was Attorney General of Wisconsin and Frasier says that he hopes his father remembers to curtsy when meeting her. Roz gets to do a stinky look, but not to say anything. Later further insults of her being boring (to justify the lack of defence?)... Eva Marie Saint... boring... I don’t think so. And it's a slap in the face for her too. Please tell me the irony was intentional? IMDB Frasier S06E12 (Series 1998) Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves

Unbelievable end - he wants an insane woman-bunny-boiler after dumping another bunny boiler. MYSOGYNIST. IMDB The Pill (2011) Actors: Noah Bean, Rachel Boston Director: J.C. Khoury

Bechdel-pass because McAdams asks Stone to take a tray to the table. #Aargh. IMDB Aloha (2015) Actors: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams Director: Cameron Crowe

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I can’t bear foreign films, but Penelope Cruz appeared, and she’s a dyke! #GLUED! IMDB All About my Mother (1999) Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Charming. The Bechdel-passing scene has a woman asking another woman to play the rape victim in a rape-evening game. IMDB The Onion Movie (2008) Actors: Len Cariou, Sarah McElligott Directors: Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire

They speak about split ends, so it passes the Bechdel. Annoyingly, Faulkner is as genius a writer as he is sexist. IMDB The Long Hot Summer (1958) Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward Director: Martin Ritt

Bechdel passer. Barbra Streisand to named waitress, "You should never eat starch and fruit at the same time." Have to pass it on the test on this. Aargh! IMDB All Night Long (1981) Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand Director: Jean-Claude Tramont

Aargh. Frustrating to have to put these sorts of films on the Bechdel list when all the women talk about is how much food they made or if they can stay for tea or not. The rest of the film they demonstrate how they are NOT allies to each other. IMDB All That Heaven Allows (1955)  Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson Director: Douglas Sirk

Snore... woman pleading with men not to go and do what they need to do. All women are are hindrances. There's also the mourning woman, the abandoned mother, the sacrificial woman... they're speeding through the tropes. IMDB American Sniper (2014) Actors: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller Director: Clint Eastwood

🍒 Bechdel-passer (with five words), and the lead is a woman (brains, character, ethics, wit, but she doesn't get her guy, she gets another different sporty non-news guy that we never get to 'read') and the men do battle over one of them being stupid but pretty and the other being brilliant, and funny, but 'ugly'. But seriously, MIND-blowing dialogue, by the same guy that did As Good As it Gets (1997) . Oooh! IMDB Broadcast News (1987) Actors: William Hurt, Albert Brooks Director: James L. Brooks