I think the movie “A League of Their Own”
directed by Penny Marshall about an all-girls baseball league and how the girls
on the teams came from all walks of lives dealt with playing an all-male sport,
and the background story of sibling rivalry between two sisters pass the
Bechdel Test. Although they casted Tom
Hank in movie, but he was not actually the main character who delivered one of
the best lines “there's no crying in Baseball” in the movie to emphasize the
attitude of an all-male sport played by “girls” in an “All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League.”
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| Penny Marshall, Director |
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| Lori Petty, Tom Hank, and Geena Davis |
Another storyline in the movie about the
relationship between the older sister Dorothy “Dottie” Hinson, played by Geena
Davis, and her young sister Kit Keller, by Lori Petty where they eventually
reconciled after the league disbanded also pass the test, because their
conversations and their rivalry is not about men but about their lives and
their competitiveness. I think Penny
Marshall did a pretty darn good job directing the movie capturing the moments
with the girls and their interaction on the field as well as their personal
lives from a women’s perspective.
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| Lori Petty, a.k.a. Tank Girl |
While I was writing this blog, I was
thinking yet of another movie when Lori Petty, who portray Kit came to mind in
the futuristic Sci-Fi motion picture “Tank Girl.” The movie set in the future
about a huge corporation who controls the water supplies on the plant and Tank
Girl and a band of rebel mutant kangaroos faces this evil villain.
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| Lori Petty, a.k.a. Tank Girl |
Although the movie has a male villain, but
the story also deals with Tank Girl and her sister, and her relationship with
her sidekick Jet Girl, portrayed by Naomi Watts.
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| Tank Girl and Jet Girl, a.k.. Naomi Watts |
Although there were male characters in the
movie and the main story line is about getting the big bad corporation controlled
by villain with a hologram face portrayed by Malcolm McDowell and Ice-T played
a mutant militant kangaroo. I think this
movie also passed the Bechdel test, at least it was a cool mentioned.
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