"Bechdelgrams" are beautiful illustrations of whether a movie passes the Bechdel test

John Struan 5:30 am Sun Nov 24, 2019

Does your favorite movie feature two women discussing something other than a man? Bechdelgrams are a beautiful and useful way to illustrate the conversations in a movie:

A Bechdelgram is a graph where the vertices are named characters and the edges are conversations between them. Here is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) pic.twitter.com/78ghO1lvpz

— qntm (@qntm) March 16, 2019

Time for another Bechdelgram, this one's Blade Runner (1982). Specifically the Final Cut although I don't think it makes a difference pic.twitter.com/HUmERkWBlp

— qntm (@qntm) November 21, 2019

Another Bechdelgram, this is for The Hunt For Red October (1990). Couple of notes on this one follow… pic.twitter.com/7hJ5Y03P9T

— qntm (@qntm) March 17, 2019

The Bechdelgrams are by Qntm, who has written a terrific series of short stories about a team of agents fighting a variety of memory-killing monsters. Start with this story.

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