Bechdel Test Movie List

One of my all-time favorite movies. A smart female lead who isn't obsessed with her love life and kicks butt??? Sign me up.

This fails test 3.

Clarice and her roommate talk, but its about Lecter and Jame Gumb.

In an earlier scene, Clarice answers an open question from a female - posed to a large group - in an undirected manner.

And thats all there is.

True--but this is a case of a film that fails the test as it is, but certainly passes in terms of presenting a powerful, three-dimensional female character.

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Fails the test clearly.

This film passes the test, but barely. I'm watching it now, and there's a scene where Jodie Foster and her fellow trainee played by Kasi Lemmons talk about how the senator uses her kidnapped daughter's name in a televised plea in order to humanize the victim to her killer. This is not a scene about a man. Indirectly, it's about Buffalo Bill, but it's more about the senator and the victim and the televised plea.

I think it passes.

Clarice and her roommate are quizzing each other about the number codes when they are running.

The only thing that is iffy for me is the fact that I don't remember hearing the roommate's name mentioned in the film.

It does pass because Clarice also talks to the first victim's friend Stacy at the bank about the victim (Fredrica) and the FBI.
She does call her roommate 'Ardelia' at some point.

Watching it right now. Technically, Clarice also talks to the victim Catherine at the end when she is saving her. She does ask where Buffalo Bill is in that conversation, but most of it is her reassuring Catherine and telling her she needs her to be quiet.

I wonder if talking about Buffalo Bill/James Gumb counts as talking about a man or not: he/she identifies as a woman, so in polite conversation, you'd refer to him/her as 'her', but then Lecter says he/she's not really transsexual. However, I kinda feel that we should go by what the individual in question says, not anyone else.

Also, it'd pass regardless of this, as Clarice and Agent Mapp discuss number codes and compliment one another on graduating. Also, there's Catherine/Clarice, although I can kinda see this interaction as being about a man, since it's mainly about how Bill's put her in danger.