09Representation & Power
Built on Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectionality. Experimental: a research-stage estimate.
Who in my cast gets agency and an inner life, and where might I be leaning on a stereotype without noticing?
Looks at who gets agency and an inner life, which stereotypes appear, and how power runs between characters.
€17 is the price for a feature-length script, up to 120 pages. A 60-page short costs €10. Most reports are ready in a few minutes. No account, and your script is deleted as soon as the analysis has run.
- Best for
- Writers auditing a draft for representation blind spots before readers or producers do.
- Not designed for
- Issuing a verdict on your script or your politics. Identity read from text is inference, marked stated-vs-inferred throughout, and the judgement calls stay with you.
What you get
- Each major character’s identities, marked as stated in the script or inferred
- Four readings for each character, as strong, moderate or weak: drives the plot, makes choices, inner life, and written as a whole person
- Stereotypes by name, and whether the script plays each one straight or subverts it
- Who holds power over whom, and what repeats across the cast
Every wealthy character is naive or shallow; every poor one is cunning and emotionally complex.
For the next draft
- Almost everything Yon-Kyo does is played for satire, with little interior life outside the comedy, so the joke lands on a type rather than a person. Is her flatness part of the film's argument about her class?
What it measures
How the script treats its characters’ intersecting identities: who gets agency and an inner life, which stereotypes appear (and whether they are subverted), how power runs between characters, and what patterns hold across the whole cast.
Method
- 1.Each major character’s identities are noted, marked as stated in the script or inferred.
- 2.Agency (driving the plot, making choices, having an arc) is weighed against serving another character’s story.
- 3.Treatment is read: time on the page, access to an inner life, and how fully the character is written as a person.
- 4.Stereotypes are named, with whether the script plays each one straight or subverts it.
- 5.Power between characters is traced, with the moments where identities compound (Crenshaw).
Price by script length
Every price includes VAT. You choose the length when you upload.
Terms used in the report
- Intersectionality
- Crenshaw’s insight that identities compound: a character’s situation as, say, an older working-class woman is not the sum of three separate categories but its own position.
- Agency
- Whether the story happens because of a character’s choices, as opposed to a character who exists mainly to enable someone else’s story.
- Interiority
- Access to a character’s inner life. A character can have many scenes and still be treated as a device rather than a person.
- Othering
- Framing a character primarily as different or alien, seen from outside rather than inhabited.
- Subverted stereotype
- A trope the script deliberately sets up and then undercuts. This is a strength.
Run this on your draft
Representation & Power on a feature-length script, up to 120 pages. Shorter scripts cost less.
Feature-length price: €17
Analyse my scriptFurther reading
The references show where the instrument comes from. They don't validate individual readings; the methodology page covers what is measured, what is inferred and the known limits.