This movie passed 3 of 3 tests. It was entered by phreckles on 2014-09-25 06:25:30.
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phreckles said:
Fanny Price: Well, Lady Bertram is always suffering near-fatal fatigue.
Susan Price: From what?
Fanny Price: Usually from embroidering something of little use and no beauty... not to mention a healthy dose of opium every day.
Susan Price: Your tongue is sharper than a guillotine, Fanny.
Fanny Price: The effect of education, I suppose.
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mat said:
Jane Austen herself was a big fan of the Bechdel test, and the proof is found in her novel Mansfield Park, on which this film is based. As some of the characters try to choose a play to put on, one of the necessities is that it should have "three principal women": this rules out Hamlet, Othello, School for Scandal and several others. Among the objections made "on one or other side" in the ensuing debate, one suggestion is dismissed with the remark "Not a tolerable woman's part in the play" (chapter 14).
![[[3]]](/static/pass.png "[There are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other about something other than a man]")
Mansfield Park (1999)
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Susan Price: From what?
Fanny Price: Usually from embroidering something of little use and no beauty... not to mention a healthy dose of opium every day.
Susan Price: Your tongue is sharper than a guillotine, Fanny.
Fanny Price: The effect of education, I suppose.