Kevin Arbouet<\/a>:<\/p>\n 1. How many scripts out there have two or more black characters with names?<\/p>\n
2. Do they talk about something other than how white people put them down\/The Black Experience?<\/p>\n
3. Are they a judge?<\/p>\n
All my scripts – television in particular – satisfy the first question of both the Bechdel and Arbouet tests (extending the latter test to all non-European* ethnicities).<\/p>\n
Not so many of the feature scripts pass questions 2 and 3 of the Bechdel. I’d like to say in my defence that in relation to question 3, my female characters may be discussing a man but it’s never in any romantic context.<\/p>\n
As for questions 2 and 3 of the Arbouet, none of my ethnic characters talk about their struggle in this White Man’s World, nor are any of them in a powerful and\/or well-respected positions, but they’re representative of the New Zealand I see both firsthand and in the news.<\/p>\n
And that’s all one can ask of a script’s cast of characters: that they be appropriate, realistic and representative of whatever world you’re offering your audience.<\/p>\n
* ‘Non-European’ – that’s ‘non-white’ to American readers.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a propensity to have my scripts’ role calls be a bountiful colours of Benetton kind of experience. I believe it’s in reaction to exclusive vanilla television indoctrination for the first couple of decades of my life. The universe may have recognised my small contribution: John August has posted about the Bechdel Test. … <\/p>\n
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