Women in movies

Bechdel test: Who is silent?

19 August 2026, 22:53 Anja Mihic

FAILED THE BECDEL TEST: A scene from the movie "Casablanca"

In a movie, women can be heroines, mothers, warriors and scientists, and still have nothing to say to each other. The Bechdel test is a simple criterion that asks if the two women in the film are talking about something other than the man. However, a shocking number of films fail to pass it

Have you noticed that in the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy there is no conversation between the two women? It sounds almost unbelievable when you consider that it is one of the most famous film trilogies of all time, with more than nine hours of material, dozens of characters and an entire world built around the struggle between good and evil. However, women in [...]

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