I'm curious about how many movies/TV shows pass the Bechdel Test by having #3 be a conversation about their kids.
Which is not to say that one's family is not a valid topic of conversation, but it still reduces the role of the characters to Mommy.
Bull Durham certainly doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, but I still love the conversation that Annie and Millie have when Millie asks Annie if she deserves to wear a white wedding dress, and Annie says, "Honey, we all deserve to wear white." (Or does that count as not being a conversation about a man, since even though Annie is fitting Millie for her wedding dress, they don't talk about men, technically?)
Jesus God, that movie is 20 years old. I feel like a fossil.
Jesus God, that movie is 20 years old. I feel like a fossil.
Tell me about it. It both feels like I just saw it for the first time a couple of years ago, and that I've known it forever.
Jesus God, that movie is 20 years old. I feel like a fossil.
I just draw comfort from the fact that Susan Sarandon was my age when she made that movie. She looked fabulous, got to get naked with Kevin when he was still very pretty, and snagged herself the cute, very smart, and twelve years-younger Tim Robbins as a life partner during the filming.
Why I draw comfort from this, I don't know, but it at least keeps me from feeling like a fossil.
In the original pitch (and I think one of the drafts) for Firefly, Zoe was a man.
That just made me want to cry, Kevin.
Was Jayne a woman?
Would she/he still have been married to Wash?
I don't think Wash was in the original pitch. It was 5 characters, without the Blue Sun stuff. FOX, according to the Visual Companion interviews at least, asked for the broadening of the concept. But we all know FOX are evil and wrong, yes?
Although, to add a bit of balance (I'm using that in the same sentence as FOX...) I personally think Joss Whedon's work is interesting, extremely well put put together and - in many ways - historic. For me. I also think the criticism of Dr Horrible is unjustified. I do worry about Acker's character in Dollhouse, though.
Totally irrelevant correction: Linda's not one of the founders of TWoP.
oh really?
her friend who is my friend seems to think so! okay.
Wing, Sars, & Glark created the site. I forget exactly, but I know Linda was hired at the same time as Shack. I think that was in the second year.
