Bechdel Test: Focused On Two Women In The Movies

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Before reading the article, I had no idea what a Bechdel Test was. I never even really focused on two women conversing during the movies. Is funny how 90 percent of the movie the Arthur mentioned in the article I have watched, and retrospect I really never witness any women conversing. He also provided a shocking statistics, out of 2,500 movies only half pass the test. For a movie to pass the Bechdel Test isn’t tough, two or more named female characters just have to talk to each other for more than few lines, but they can’t talk about men. It is still surprising how large amount of movies did not pass the Bechdel Test when the prerequisite is not hard to achieve.

I also took BBC brain test exam for fun, but for some reason I

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