Bechdel Test Movie List

/bech·del test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

[[3]] Hidden Figures (2016) [imdb]

This movie passed 3 of 3 tests. It was entered by Odd May on 2016-12-16 21:28:07.

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Odd May said:
The three main characters are women, and they all have conversations that have nothing to do with men.
Message posted on 2016-12-16 21:28:07
Feminist said:
This movie should get a Bechdel special prize! Shockingly, at least 5 named women talk to each other (without men around) about job advancement, computer programming, commuting woes, and more-- just like real women!
Message posted on 2017-02-06 21:39:54
Mary said:
Three brillian black women are mathematicians at NASA in 1961, as well as warm personal friends. Katherine Jackson, first shown fixing her car, calculates trajectories for the astronauts. But she is forced to use the 'colored woman's toilet' in a different building 1/2 a mile away. Dorothy Vaughn teaches herself to program the first IBM computer at the base. She trains her fellow women 'human computers' and saves everybody's jobs. Mary Jackson has to go to court before she is allowed into a whites-only engineering class. All three women have warm personal lives, which fortify them while being frozen out as the only woman among hostile guys in ties. The women confront 'colored only' libraries and even coffee pots. Too bad that 'Hidden Figures' is saturated with praise for NASA and the military. It would make a great double feature with 'Arrival', where Amy Adams is the lone woman scientist who solves the Air Force impasse with space aliens.
Message posted on 2017-02-09 21:01:51
Akshara said:
Beautiful movie that focuses on the growth of three Black women in Nasa. The movie details the push of racism and misogynoir, as each character breaks stereotypes and excels in their careers.
Message posted on 2020-02-06 02:44:23
Foxy said:
Director: Theodore Melfi

Producers: Theodore Melfi, Pharrell Williams, Peter Chernin, Donna Gigliotti, Jenno Topping, Kimberly Quinn

Narrative arc: There are three protagonists in the film, Katherine Johnson is the main one. She is a single mother of two girls and works at NASA along with her two best friends Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson. This film is a biographical piece about the women of color who significantly contributed to the first successful rocket launch that sent John Glenn into the Earth’s orbit. The three women face segregation, racism and sexism in their place of work and overcome them in different ways. For example all three characters challenge segregation in whatever form they encounter it ex bathrooms, the library or schools, by standing up for themselves and defying social norms. This movie passes the Bechdel test there are multiple women of color with names, backgrounds and they talk about their work, their struggles and their lives. In one scene they do talk about a romantic interest of Katherine’s but that’s a side story, it does not affect the main plot.
Message posted on 2020-02-06 07:48:04
Ryann said:
The main characters in the movie are women, namely Katherine, Mary and Dorothy. They often have discussions with each other about discrimination against gender and race, research related problems and issues and about NASA. This proves that they regularly talk about plot related things. Also, though it may not be quite relevant, the main characters have discussions with their daughters about books etc too. This movie clearly passes the Bechdel test, because more than three women talk about subjects that have nothing to do with men without any men around quite often.
Message posted on 2020-04-28 05:06:20

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