Asked about the directors she would like to work with, Nicole Kidman was very blunt. Yes, she would like to be directed one day by Martin Scorsese, but for her to accept, the filmmaker will have to do better for women.
“I always said I wanted to work with (Martin) Scorsese, if he made a film with women,” she responded to Vanity Fair.
While some will surely scream wokism or other feminist terror, a study looked at the films of the director of Taxi Driver by passing them through the Bechdel Test. The idea is to measure the female presence in fiction compared to that of men, and therefore highlight the male predominance.
Not for now
To do this, the film must meet three (yet simple) conditions: 1- at least two women must be in the casting; 2- they must talk to each other; 3- of a subject other than a man.
Well you'll be surprised to learn that 40% of American films don't pass the test. Regarding the work of Martin Scorsese, 42% of his achievements fail according to this simulator.
This is not the first time that this disparity has been reported and Martin Scorsese even responded to it when some criticized him for using Anna Paquin's acting, in The Irishmanfor seven seconds out of the three hours and 29 minutes that this film lasts. It was in 2019.
“It’s a waste of time. It's not even a valid topic. People have been talking to me about it for years. If the story needs a female main character, why not? », he replied during his visit to the Film Festival in Rome.
The filmmaker, however, seems to have made an effort in the meantime, since in 2019, his Bechdel Test showed that only 29% of his films met the three required conditions. Soon Nicole Kidman to star in the next Scorsese?
