Cita:    You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profanity or violence. Now cinemas in Sweden are introducing a new rating to highlight gender bias, or rather the absence of it.

    To get an A rating, a movie must pass the so-called Bechdel test, which means it must have at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

┬á ┬á "The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, all Star Wars movies, The Social Network, Pulp Fiction and all but one of the Harry Potter movies fail this test," said Ellen Tejle, the director of Bio Rio, an art-house cinema in Stockholm's trendy S├Âdermalm district.

Cita:  Bio Rio is one of four Swedish cinemas that launched the new rating last month to draw attention to how few movies pass the Bechdel test. Most filmgoers have reacted positively to the initiative. "For some people it has been an eye-opener," said Tejle.

  Beliefs about women's roles in society are influenced by the fact that movie watchers rarely see "a female superhero or a female professor or person who makes it through exciting challenges and masters them", Tejle said, noting that the rating doesn't say anything about the quality of the film. "The goal is to see more female stories and perspectives on cinema screens," he added.

    The state-funded Swedish Film Institute supports the initiative, which is starting to catch on. Scandinavian cable TV channel Viasat Film says it will start using the ratings in its film reviews and has scheduled an A-rated "Super Sunday" on 17 November, when it will show only films that pass the test, such as The Hunger Games, The Iron Lady and Savages.

Cita:    The A rating is the latest Swedish move to promote gender equality by addressing how women are portrayed in the public sphere.

    Sweden's advertising ombudsman watches out for sexism in that industry and reprimands companies seen as reinforcing gender stereotypes, for example by including skimpily clad women in their adverts for no apparent reason.

    Since 2010, the Equalisters project has been trying to boost the number of women appearing as expert commentators in Swedish media through a Facebook page with 44,000 followers. The project has recently expanded to Finland, Norway and Italy.

Cita:    For some, though, Sweden's focus on gender equality has gone too far.

    "If they want different kind of movies they should produce some themselves and not just point fingers at other people," said Tanja Bergkvist, a physicist who writes a blog about Sweden's "gender madness".

    The A rating has also been criticised as a blunt tool that does not reveal whether a movie is gender-balanced.

    "There are far too many films that pass the Bechdel test that don't help at all in making society more equal or better, and lots of films that don't pass the test but are fantastic at those things," said Swedish film critic Hynek Pallas.

┬á ┬á Pallas also criticised the state-funded Swedish Film Institute ÔÇô the biggest financier of Swedish film ÔÇô for vocally supporting the project, saying a state institution should not "send out signals about what one should or shouldn't include in a movie".

Cita:    Research in the US supports the notion that women are under-represented on the screen and that little has changed in the past 60 years.

    Of the top 100 US films in 2011, women accounted for 33% of all characters and only 11% of the protagonists, according to a study by the San Diego-based Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film.

Cita:    Another study, by the Annenberg Public Policy Centre at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that the ratio of male to female characters in movies has remained at about two to one for at least six decades. That study, which examined 855 top box-office films from 1950-2006, showed female characters were twice as likely to be seen in explicit sexual scenes as males, while male characters were more likely to be seen as violent.

┬á ┬á "Apparently Hollywood thinks that films with male characters will do better at the box office. It is also the case that most of the aspects of movie-making ÔÇô writing, production, direction, and so on ÔÇô are dominated by men, and so it is not a surprise that the stories we see are those that tend to revolve around men," Amy Bleakley, the study's lead author, said in an email.

(11-11-2013 14:38)kakafuti link escribió:Es un meh enorme y se convierte en una chorrada como una catedral cuando ya califica a ESDLA como una pelicula que no representa a la mujer como un igual del hombre...

Cita:El objetivo del test NO es calificar las películas en base a lo igualitarias o respetuosas que son con la mujer, sino hacer ver qué poquitas peliculas cumplen este pequeño e insignificante requisito y hacer ver lo poco importante que es el rol de la mujer en muchas películas, muchas veces relegadas a decorativos o a claves para hacer que la trama avance sin permitir que éstos se desarrollen bien

(11-11-2013 15:15)kakafuti link escribió:Hablar de eso, que esta muy bien, y luego poner a ESDLA o Star Wars como ejemplos desvirtúa todo argumento que pueda tener. Y por eso es un meh enorme...

(11-11-2013 15:20)kakafuti link escribió:Del todo Bart, del todo...

Cita:En el caso de las pelis del Señor de los Anillos, no pasa la prueba porque los personajes femeninos no interactúan entre ellos

Cita:Cosa con la cual no estoy de acuerdo porque los personajes femeninos del Señor de los Anillos son una puta mierda, especialmente Arwen que no sirve para nada más que para ser el romance de Aragorn, y si los hubieras cambiado por unas ardillas que hablan habría dado lo mismo

Cita:La calificación ésta NO ES UN INDICATIVO DE IGUALDAD DE GÉNERO EN LAS PEL├ìCULAS, es una mera curiosidad que ayuda a ver cómo en la basta mayoría de las películas la mujer tiene un papel relegado a ser la perrita faldera del hombre y no se permite ser desarrollado como personaje, que sea el caso o no en esta peli es lo de menos,

Cita:Si crees que el test es una tontería porque tanto las películas del Señor de los Anillos┬á no son películas sexistas y los roles de la mujer son importantes para el argumento y están bien desarrollados y además los personajes femeninos se comunican entre ellos y hablan de algo que no es un hombre (Porque esos son los requisitos para pasar la prueba), exponlo, arguméntalo con otra cosa que no sean "porque son tus pelis favoritas".

(11-11-2013 15:50)kakafuti link escribió:Lo cual es una chorrada enorme y que no me parece indicativo de nada...

(11-11-2013 15:50)kakafuti link escribió:No era necesario mostrar de una forma tan grosera y basta tu ignorancia en este tema┬á

(11-11-2013 15:50)kakafuti link escribió:Entonces meter esta pelicula, que has sido tu las que has destacado como ejemplo, es una chorrada y un meh enorme.

Si lo creo, y el test es una chorrada desde el mismo momento que mete en el a peliculas que no cumplen sus directrices. Se boicotean a si mismo vamos.

Cita:Básicamente todo se reducen a que es una chorrada porque se meten con tus pelis favoritas, y en vez de mostrar ejemplos de las cosas que criticas o que dices que no son verdad, te pones a soltar bilis sin motivo, a llamar ignorantes a los demás porque se han metido con fallos de tu saga favorita y a decir que el test te parece una chorrada a pesar de no entender absolutamente nada de la cuestión del test este.

Cita:Pero mira, como veo que no atiendes a razones y que no hay manera de que discutas como una persona racional, argumentando de manera coherente y sin recurrir al insulto ni a decir tonterías, mejor te meto en la lista de ignorados y punto.