I believe the two female characters also have to have names to qualify, Comrade Dingo.
It's a Tarantino movie. They talk about all kinds of things.
Alien.
Does it have to simply have one such scene to qualify? Or must it be devoid of all scenes that fail the test?
So you all know, although I know some of you already do, Alien was the passing flick in the original Bechdel Test comic strip.
I wonder if the swear filter allows one to post the name of said strip...?
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Nope.
But hmm... Hunger Games passes, I think.
As does Huit Femmes. Without looking, I suspect most of François Ozon's œuvre passes.
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Kill Bill one and two.
Interestingly, Kill Bill (both of 'em) fail to pass the reverse bachdel test, because most characters are female and the movies are very focused on the main (female) character. So, no two named male characters talking to each other about something other than a woman.
Other movies that come to mind that fail the reverse test are Chicago, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I might be forgetting something here), Easy A, the Hunger Games, the recent Gone Girl and I'm sure there are others I'm missing. If we count TV stuff too, then there's Orphan Black.
As for movies that merely pass the normal test, there are quite a lot (an annoyingly low percentage of all movies passes this test, but that still amounts to an overwhelming number).
Off the top of my head:
1) The Sound of Music (the beginning in the monastery)
2) Grease
3) Guardians of the Galaxy
4) 12 angry men
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Kill Bill one and two.
Interestingly, Kill Bill (both of 'em) fail to pass the reverse bachdel test, because most characters are female and the movies are very focused on the main (female) character. So, no two named male characters talking to each other about something other than a woman.
Other movies that come to mind that fail the reverse test are Chicago, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I might be forgetting something here), Easy A, the Hunger Games, the recent Gone Girl and I'm sure there are others I'm missing. If we count TV stuff too, then there's Orphan Black.
As for movies that merely pass the normal test, there are quite a lot (an annoyingly low percentage of all movies passes this test, but that still amounts to an overwhelming number).
Off the top of my head:
1) The Sound of Music (the beginning in the monastery)
2) Grease
3) Guardians of the Galaxy
4) 12 angry men
I would very much love to hear how Girls with the Dragon Tattoo fails the reverse test...
I haven't seen the American version, but I have seen the six-part Swedish Millennium series, and it definitely passes.
Six part? I've got the Swedish movies, but there's only 3 I thought.
EDIT: Nevermind, a few minutes on Wikipedia solved it. Extended versions of the film were made (approximately three hours each), and were released both as a series of six 90 minute episodes but also as the 3 full films.
Fair enough, I was going based on this:
The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird has produced film versions of the Millennium Trilogy, co-produced with The Danish film production company Nordisk Film and television company,[22] which were released in Scandinavia in 2009. In 2010, the extending of all three films to approximately 180 minutes led to their being shown on Swedish television as the six-part Millennium series. Each film was divided into two parts of 90 minutes. This version was released on July 14, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in three separate sets and on November 24, 2010 as a Complete Millennium Trilogy box set with an extra disc.
from the wikipedia article
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To be fair, I am not sure the american GwtDT passes the Bechdel test (a good reaso to rewatch ist, I guess), but Lord Snow wrote that it wouldn't pass the reverse test, which, considering conversations about the extendet Vanger family, about Blomquists past, etc. is highly unlikely.
edit: Are Miriam (Lisbeths lover) or Lindgren (the woman at the library) named in the American Movie, if so, it passes the test.