Bechdel Test Movie List

Of the two women that talk to each other, only one of them is plot-significant.

the lead female character burns a theater full of nazis to the ground - she should get extra for being bad&ss.

What the hell is dubious about this?

I'm unsure if the two female protagonists ever actually talk to each other or to other women.

Unless you count Shoshanna talking to Goebbels' interpreter, the female characters don't converse. They do converse with the male characters about things which don't involve romance, (particularly Von Hammersmarck), so while I don't think the film is particularly sexist and actually is very respectful of the women in the story, it doesn't pass Bechdel.

Agree with John... there is no conversation!

Unless there is another that passes Bechdel, the scene with the translator doesn't pass imho -- the point of rule 3 is to ensure that the women are engaged in an exchange sufficiently independent of men. Being a translator thoroughly violates the spirit of rule 3. The rating (currently a smily face with exclamation mark) should be changed, unless we're all forgetting about a different conversation that satisfies the 3 criteria...

The two female protagonists are amazing in this movie- neither cares about romance at all and they're both driven by ideology, which is what the Bechdel test is really looking for. In the screenplay, there's a scene where Shoshanna talks to the former owner of the movie theatre; I think most of it was cut, but I still think Tarantino actually wrote two perfect, deeply feminist and totally asskicking female characters in this film.

Yeah, and Sex and the City 2 is a sexist, stereotyped piece of trash that makes women look like shallow, merchandise consumed assholes. It doesn't matter what inner truth about female portrayal the Bechdel Test is meant to convey, a film passes or doesn't pass it on the basis of its stated qualifications.

This movie, that although representing women very well, does not pass the Bechdel test. There are women represented in spades in an otherwise male-centric movie, but interaction is limited.

This movie underscores an inherent problem with the Bechdel test that although a movie may be really feminist ( where usbrepresebts the female characters on an equal playing field) it can fail, and a strongly misognistic movie that purely exploits female sterotypes, like Sex in the City, can pass.

The bechdel test is not a test of feminism but of female involvement.

The irony? The script originally had Shoshanna's "Aunt" as a significant portion of the plot. This would have allowed the movie to pass the Bechdel test. Her removal actually bumped the movie down a notch on the Bechdel scale.