I don’t remember the beginning and ending of the movie very well, but it actually has a fairly large cast with many men in it. Since the Tom Hanks character is the main character I’d be pretty sure he speaks with at least some of these other male characters at some point, although I don’t remember any specific conversations.
After being rescued:
Stan: We buried you. There was a coffin, a gravestone… the whole thing.
Chuck Noland: I had a coffin? Well what was in it?
Muriel’s Wedding is another that would fail simply by virtue of never leaving the female lead’s POV.
And I think including obviously male-centric movies like American Pie misses the point - all the major characters are male and the movie is about them and their activities, even if they never talk about anything but women. The point of the original Bechdel test is that the female characters exist only to further the men’s stories and have no indepndent existance. So American Pie fails the Bechdel test, but not the reverse Bechdel test.
American Pie actually passes the real Bechdel test because Tara Reid and Natasha Lyonne discuss female masturbation in one scene. There may be others, but that’s the one I remember (shut up!).
I “stand” corrected.
Aliens comes to mind as a Bechdel fail. There are named characters of both genders but among conversations between females:
Ripley and Newt: discuss monsters and nightmares and such but not the male characters, except briefly when Ripley asks about Newt’s brother, who only appears in the extended version.
Vasquez and Ferro: chat briefly, about Ripley.
As for the OP’s proposed reverse Bechdel…hmmmm…
Aliens is a Bechdel pass, due to those conversations between Ripley and Newt (in fact, it’s the specific movie pointed out by Bechdel as being a pass). I think you might be misunderstanding the Bechdel test.
And I’d say that Gravity just barely passes the reverse Bechdel test (the Indian astronaut has a name, even if nobody who saw the movie actually remembers what it is, and they talk about the mission and the immediate aborting thereof), but it fails the straight Bechdel test by virtue of only having one female character. I think, though, that it can fairly be considered a female-centric movie despite that.
No, just its null hypothesis, apparently.
Nitpick, but the specific movie named in the comic strip that introduced this concept was actually the original Alien. The strip was published before the sequel Aliens was released.
The Dreamlife of Angels
I’m pretty sure “Anal Lesbians from Beyond Mars” would fail a reverse Bechtel test. If it existed.
All the way to the 70th post and I thought this one wouldn’t be named.
I may be remembering wrong but I think Brief Encounter qualifies. It would certainly be the most critically acclaimed movie to do so, I think.
I just watched the film Tiny Furniture by Lena Dunham tonight and noticed that it failed the Reverse Bechdel test. There are only two named male characters in the movie, the chef and the youtube star and they never meet. There are two unnamed male party guests who talk to each other but their entire conversation revolves around Jemima Kirke’s character.
Paulie has a conversation with another track student named Vijay about growing a moustache.
Is Mickey a man or a mouse?
I think The Little Mermaid fails the test, but that is sort of a rom-com.
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Shodan
I saw this one last night, I think it fails the reverse B:
Ass Backwards
I don’t think the female leads in Working Girl and My Best Friend’s Wedding are even off screen for more than 45 seconds.
The Runaways. Kim Fowley is the only male character I can remember, named or otherwise.
Wasn’t there some verbal interaction between the chef and Sebastian and/or Flounder, about the cooking and eating of the latter? Le poisson, le poisson.