From Wikipedia:
The strip popularized what is now known as the Bechdel test, also known as the Bechdel/Wallace test, the Bechdel rule, or Bechdel’s law. Bechdel credits her friend Liz Wallace for the test, which appears in a 1985 strip entitled “The Rule”, in which a character says that she only watches a movie if it satisfies the following requirements:
1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something besides a man.[5][6]A variant of the test, in which the two women must additionally be named characters, is also called the Mo Movie Measure. The name is a misnomer as neither Mo nor the other regular characters had been introduced yet at the time of this strip’s publication.
(via Shakesville)
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7 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.I don’t know what this rule is or what strip it’s from, but it doesn’t include No Country for Old Men so it must be false.
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Wut? The two women characters in that movie barely interacted. And when they did it was about …a man (dead though he was). You’re being funny, right?
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So lesbian pr0n qualifies?
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The test does not automatically make a movie good or bad, but movies that don’t include these things have a serious disconnect with reality. Imagine a world where women produced almost all the films, and men were often only in them to be looked at, or to talk about their relationships with women.
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I’ve got it! A Pampered Chef party…
1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something besides a man.[5][6]
What do I win? – It is a riddle, right…?
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I just ran this test through a couple of famous movies I could come up with spontaneously… and I think *not a single one* qualified. That’s kinda depressing.
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Even Casablanca doesn’t qualify.
Is there a woman in the housw who’ll say it’s not a good film.
And I like Casablanca damnit.
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