What I've been wondering though is how many movies don't have a man in them at all. How many have only one man? How many that have two or more men have them only talking about a woman? The point here is to find movies that fail the test rather than pass it. Or perhaps to say the only way to really pass a reverse Bechdel is to have only women. I can't think of any woman only (or only one man) movies off the top of my head. So what about men only talking about a woman?
I'm looking over my collection and I'm not finding much that even gets two men only talking about a woman. I've got a lot of movies too, a lot of little independent movies.
Kill Bill almost counts, but a few small scenes kill it. In the wedding rehearsal the preachers talks to most the men about the rehearsal, after the balloon goes up the cop and his son talk about the massacre before getting onto the subject of The Bride. The only men in Better Than Chocolate never speak to each other as far as I remember. I'm not sure if Josie and the Pussycats would pass. I would say I could watch it and find out, but that would mean watching Josie and the Pussycats again.
There is a 1997 movie called Stand-Ins, that might pass. Id' have to get it off Amazon's On-Demand
If anyone knows of a movie that even comes close to passing let me know.
Just to remind you, to pass a Reverse Bechdel you'd need to find a movie
1. Where two men only talk about a woman (or don't talk to each other at all)
2. A movie with only one man
OR for full points
3. A movie with no men in it.
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