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

[capri0mni]

I haven't had a TV in years -- all television shows I watch now are through streaming on the Internet, so I don't surf through channels like I used to.

The obvious upside to this is that I'm spared the teasers for upcoming shows that push sexist, racist, bullying culture that I don't want in my life (it's not enough that I choose not to watch "Survivor," or "Big Brother" when they air, because ads for them still show up during the commercials in shows I do choose to watch).

The downside is that I no longer catch random glimpses of shows, from mid-episode, side-by-side (which gave me a good sense of the overall trends in the mood of our culture).

But back when I did channel surf, I could tell, in 3 seconds or less, if a crowd scene was part of a fictional program or was the backdrop to a news report / live filming.

In the latter, there's always a visibly disabled character somewhere in the crowd (often elderly), just because the crowd on the street in a city like Manhattan, or the center of London, or Madrid will easily have close to a hundred people, and in that setting, one in five people are likely to be physically disabled.

In the former (in a fictional show set in a city) there will never be someone who is visibly disabled, because all those extras were hired by the casting director, and they just don't think of hiring the disabled.

Once -- once I was watching the cop show "Unforgettable," and a person in a wheelchair wheeled by in the crowd... and I cheered.

... until, 20 minutes or so later, it was revealed that he was there to be a nearly-overlooked witness with a vitally important clue; he was a wounded vet from Afghanistan, and so was the victim (or the suspect, I forget which) and he was wheeling himself to the Veterans' Affairs office for counseling (of course he was -- even as a bit character only there for info-dumping, the only reason he'd be out in public would be to deal with some complication arising from his disability [/cynicism]).

Which is why I did not include "named character" in my minimal goals: I'd almost be happier if the disabled character were nameless and in the background -- just part of the normal background of public life and a member of society.

Heck -- have that "Wants something" and "Tries to get it" be buying a newspaper and a coffee" at the convenience shop on the corner, or "Wants to take the dog for a walk."

Re: My version

[davidgillon]

Interesting point!