And speaking of the Mori test

[davidgillon]

I think we need a disability version.

Does the film:
1) Include a disabled character
2) Who isn't used for inspiration porn
3) There is no three

Comments

Re: My version

[davidgillon]

I like the Besides!

Re: My version

[capri0mni]

Thank you. :-)

I figure that's parallel to "besides a man" in the Bechdel and Mori tests.

Having characters that
a) have names
b) talk to each other
c) have goals
d) try to achieve them, and
d) have story arcs

Are the "necessary moving parts" of all fiction in the Western Literary Tradition [tm] (if your story only has one character, they talk to themselves). The thing with these "tests" is they underline, boldly, how narrowly our cultures define who counts as a "real" character, simply by keeping everything else the same, except switching to a marginalized identity.

That is: we're not asking for anyone to invent a whole new method of storytelling -- just to expand the variety of characters who get to have stories.

The bechdel test focuses on intellectual lives of women -- demonstration of the characters' ideas. Whereas the Mori test (And mine) focuses on agency, which I think is particularly important wrt disability -- since we're so often denied agency in real life.

Re: My version

[davidgillon]

Pretty much this. I think you nail it in talking about who is allowed to have a story within movies and Western media in general.