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The only other female characters have only a handful of lines between them and none of them are in a scene shared with another woman, so that’s a massive Bechdel fail, an oft-cited criticism. Set in Hong Kong, the multicultural team of mech-operators is led by Idris Elba and one of the protagonists is a Japanese woman, trope-namer Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi). Pacific Rim is about the last-stand battles for the future of humanity between giant mechs ( jaegers ) and giant Godzilla-esque sea monsters ( kaiju ). One such film to consider is recent Golden Globe-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 homage to Japanese pop culture, Pacific Rim. Conversely, it is possible for a film to fail Bechdel but still have constructive, strong female characters.

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It is possible, however, for a movie to pass the Bechdel Test and still be a woeful example of female representation: the Twilight movie series, for example, pass Bechdel, but still centre a toxic relationship. Last year, all of the top three highest-grossing movies passed the Bechdel test, and all three had female leads, but things get worse as we round out the top ten. It’s such a low bar - having two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man - and yet it remains a barrier that many movies fail to cross, even now.

In discussing female representation in movies, the Bechdel Test remains the standard by which we measure things.

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