Bechdel Test Movie List

Joanne (Annie) talks to Mrs. (Adele) Burbridge about the boys' behavior.

Actually, towards the beginning of the film when Joanne is first taken to the hospital, she has an interview with Rose who asks her if she remembers anything, even her name. At the end of which Joanne calls Rose's hair a horrible wig. At no point in that conversation was a man mentioned.

In addition to the conversation mentioned above between Joanna and Rose, there are several conversations between women in which topics other than men are discussed. Joanna and her mother discus pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, adulthood and menstruation. While She and Adele do discuss male characters, there conversation is predominately about parenting and education for children generally, regardless of gender.

I notice that this has been pointed out with adequate examples for more than four years. Is it the case on this site that whomever makes the first entry determines forever how a film is coded. If I wanted to, could I baldly assert that the Wizard of Oz fails the Bechdel Test and (assuming someone who actually watched the film didn't beat me to it) have that stand for all eternity?

I've updated the rating from 2/3 to 3/3.

Thank you for updating. I'm sorry if my tone was a little harsh before. I just feel very passionately about this film. Which besides being quite a fun and funny comedy is a subtle and smart feminist romance/allegory about finding a way back from patriarchy to a healthy theory and practice of heterosexual marriage. We had this on VHS when I was a kid and I must have watched it with my mother and sisters a hundred times. Those were the years when my mom was (finally) learning to stand up for herself and demand to be counted as a person. Joanna's response of: "It bothers me NOW!" (to Dean's constant refrain of "None of this ever bothered you before.") Became a motto of female empowerment in our household and I remember this period fondly as a major turning point for our family. Of, course none of that is here nor there to the fact of the film passing the test, but this is why I remember all of the conversations between these characters so vividly to this day.