Developing a classifier to automatically predict whether a movie passes the Bechdel Test.
A movie passes the Bechdel Test if:
- it has at least two women in it,
- who talk to each other,
- about something besides a man.
The test was popularized by Allison Bechdel's 1985 comic Dykes to Watch Out For. Of the 7656 movies added on https://bechdeltest.com, 4427 (57.8%) pass all three tests, 766 (10.0%) pass two tests, 1674 (21.9%) pass one test and 789 (10.3%) pass no tests at all.
We are using screenplays from Agarwal et al. (2015) and Gorinski and Lapata (2015). Combined, we have 727 screenplays that have Bechdel ratings from bechdeltest.com. 349 (48.0%) pass all three tests, 103 (14.2%) pass two tests, 222 (30.5%) pass one test, and 53 (7.3%) pass no tests.