{"id":19609,"date":"2016-05-03T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19609"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:53:48","slug":"the-vast-majority-of-films-still-failing-the-bechdel-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19609","title":{"rendered":"The vast majority of films still failing the Bechdel Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12820\">before<\/a> about the Bechdel test.<\/p>\n<p>The Bechdel Test was inspired by animator Alison Bechdel\u2019s 1985 tongue-in-cheek comic strip \u2018The Rule\u2019. In order for a film to pass The Bechdel Test, it must have at least two named female characters, who have a conversation with each other about something other than a man.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be surprised how few movies meet this test. One that will is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostbusters.com\">the remake of &#8220;Ghostbsters&#8221;<\/a> which is due to be released this summer. Astonishingly the film has attracted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/may\/02\/ghostbusters-trailer-most-disliked-in-youtube-history\">a massive backlash<\/a> even before it&#8217;s been released. Could this be a case of misogyny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged before about the Bechdel test. The Bechdel Test was inspired by animator Alison Bechdel\u2019s 1985 tongue-in-cheek comic strip \u2018The Rule\u2019. In order for a film to pass The Bechdel Test, it must have at least two named female characters, who have a conversation with each other about something other than a man. You&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19664,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions\/19664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}