Bechdel Test (according to API)

1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it

2. Who talk to each other

3. About something besides a man

Data

• Data from https://bechdeltest.com/api/v1/doc
• 9331 movies that passed the test (ordered by time)
  • has rating (not available for ealier movies), year, id, title, imdbid
  • dates back to 1874
• Use https://rapidapi.com/rapidapi/api/movie-database-imdb-alternative/ for movie query, we have title, year, imdbID, type , poster

Concept

• Data
  • instead of checking if popular movies pass the test, I propose that we work directly with the data (passed movies) from bechdelted API
    • Tested popular movies that came up in google search, rarely passes the test
  • Parse the 9331 movies data from bechdeltest API
    • Get all directors from the movies
      • Rank directors by frequency
    • Display the directors by frequency
      • Display their movies (that passes the test)
      • Display the main cast of the movie
    • Display the actors by frequency

// pseudocode for data parsing

directors = {}; // each entry contains {name: ..., movies: [], ratings: 0};
actors = {}; // each entry contains {name: ..., movies: []};
for (var i = 0; i < movies.length; i ++){
	let director = API_call_get_director_form_movie(movie);
	directors[director] += 1;
	directors[director].movies.push(movie);
	directors[director].rating += rating; // divide by numMovies for avg rating
	mainCast = API_call_get_cast(movie);
	for (var j = 0; j < mainCast.length; j ++){ 
		actors[mainCast[j]] += 1;
		actors[mainCast[j]].movies.push(movie);
		// accumulate rating too 
  }
}

• Website
  • A site to promote these directors / actors.
  • Search by actor name + director name
    • see their scores
  • Basically defining a new matric to rank directors and actors

Random References

Harvard Film Archive

Reference movie archive website

https://archive-it.org/collections/6725

https://archive.org/details/movies