Re "The Bechdel Test. To pass a film must: 1. Have at least two women -- with names -- in it 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something besides a man":
What's the point of the Bechdel Test? Some films - war movies? prison movies? - may work best *without* any women. It's a man's world out there. The Disney "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" was an all-male, claustrophobic classic - the first "steampunk" movie. The 1997 TV movie version introduced a woman. Now the problem with introducing a woman is that it changes the dynamic of the set-up. A central aspect then becomes: "OK, who's going to end up bedding the girl?". That distraction then diffuses the tension of the major plot theme.
