This movie passed 3 of 3 tests (although dubious). It was entered by lexluthor on 2013-07-25 05:28:39.
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There are tons of named female characters in this film, there is no denying that. There are even a couple scenes where women talk to each other about things other than men. For instance, Louise Little (Malcolm's mother, played by Lonette McKee)talks to a child services rep, Miss Dunne (played by Karen Allen), about the fate of the children after Malcolm's father was murdered. Yes they are discussing the implications of a man's death, but the conversation is essentially about the children. If that's not enough, later on in the story, two of Malcolm's female cohorts, Sophia (Kate Vernon) and Peg (Debi Mazar) talk to an elderly woman - Mrs. Crawford (uncredited) - about her silver collection right before robbing her.
Despite these two scenes, for a 3-hour-long film, that is a pretty negligible amount of screen time for women talking to each other. Feminist bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) makes a good point when she says this about Spike Lee's depiction of women in his films: "Like many females in Lee's audience, I have found his representations of women in general, and black women in particular, to be consistently stereotypical and one-dimensional."[1] Not that this film is one for feminist exploration, but its theme of minorities overcoming adversity falters when it portrays women "stereotypically."
[1]"Polarized Female Images: How the Identity of Malcolm X is Limited by Static Female Portrayals" by Lauren Calabrese
![[[3]]](/static/pass.png "[There are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other about something other than a man, although dubious]")
Malcolm X (1992)
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Despite these two scenes, for a 3-hour-long film, that is a pretty negligible amount of screen time for women talking to each other. Feminist bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) makes a good point when she says this about Spike Lee's depiction of women in his films: "Like many females in Lee's audience, I have found his representations of women in general, and black women in particular, to be consistently stereotypical and one-dimensional."[1] Not that this film is one for feminist exploration, but its theme of minorities overcoming adversity falters when it portrays women "stereotypically."
[1]"Polarized Female Images: How the Identity of Malcolm X is Limited by Static Female Portrayals" by Lauren Calabrese