![]() That list repeats in the Best Picture nominations, joined by Ford v Ferrari, JoJo Rabbit, Marriage Story, The Joker and, the only obvious test-passer, Little Women. When Issa Rae announced the nominees for best director, she quipped, “Congratulations to those men.” They gave us The Irishman (about a hitman for the mob), 1917 (World War I), Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (an actor and his stunt double in Golden Age Hollywood), Parasite (about a con man), and The Joker (about a man one online wit termed “the incel clown”). This year, entire categories of the Academy Awards fail. Yet a BBC analysis of Oscar Best Picture winners between 19 found that less than half passed the Bechdel Test. The bar is so low, only a basset hound could wiggle beneath it. A later tweak suggests that the women have names. Announced in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For back in 1985 but reaching popular awareness only in the 2010s, it simply requires that there be two female characters who talk, to each other, about something other than a man. ![]() Neither of us realized that he was applying the Bechdel test I learned only later about Alison Bechdel’s deliberately, ridiculously low standard for movies. ![]() I was happily watching a British murder get solved by two smart female detectives when my husband pointed out that every conversation that was not about murder was about men. ![]() Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s “JOKER.” ![]()
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