White Chicks counts, right?
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Depends on where you live.
Was there a site that did the work analyzing the movies for the test ? I can’t imagine you watched all 250 movies and analyzed each of them recently.
Also I feel like there is so much variance in what constitutes a top movie. Plus classics in certain genres aren’t always considered for top of the list.
Debbie does Dallas?
Pretty Woman
Christmas Vacation
Vegas Vacation
Death Becomes Her
Frozen? Do animateds count?
#1 - The Shawshank Redemption should fail this pointless test.
Ah nevermind, you are looking for what passes this pointless test.
Don’t know, don’t care.
no country for old men
After looking at the IMDB top 250 list: Silence of the Lambs. Clarice talks to the senator who is the victim’s mother.
Damn!!!
It’s honestly not a pointless test. I mean, it’s silly, reductive, inadequate and it wasn’t invented by Alison Bechdel…but it’s still valuable.
You can roll it around in your mind to the extent you want to but I certainly found it revealing when I first heard of the concept years ago and thought about it as I watched TV. Across the Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Mad Men…you are literally grasping for individual scenes here or there that might qualify shows running close to 100 hours to pass the test. They’re all fantastic shows but the Bechdel test certainly provided me with an insight that wouldn’t have occurred to me otherwise.
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I didn’t need to watch the top 250. Only the top 49, and I have seen 44 of them. I took a guess on the 5 I hadn’t seen. Honestly I could probably chatgpt each of those.
Note: Chatgpt claims that The Dark Knight passes the test, but apparently there’s some disagreement as to whether or not it really passes the test as the conversation is brief and/or indirect.
Yes, I click on threads and respond to topics I don’t care about just to let people know I don’t care all the time.
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I first heard about it when I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at an outdoor venue, and a bunch of people at near us wearing costumes. As I tried to figure out each costume I saw that the two young women in the group were both dressed as Meriam. That’s when I realized that there was no other prominent female character in the movie (I mean, I guess one of the women could have shown up with “I Love You” written on her eyelids).
One of the best movies of all time has no women at all, other than one or two on a distant cliff ululating.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Yes. Google Bechdel test.
I know your worth is not determined by your looks, but that is NOT a pretty woman.
I was going off of what he said in the OP: he said he went off of the IMDB top 250 list and was surprised at how many failed the test.
I wasn’t sure if he was going off of his own analysis or if he used something else.
Pretty in Pink?
This convo might qualify it
Two women, talking NOT about a boy, per sé, but about Prom
Judgement call
I think the bigger problem is the 6.7 IMDB rating.
