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Hollywood evaluates films by many measures – box office performance, critics reviews, awards achievements, but does your favorite film pass the climate test? Using results from a climate-change version of the Bechdel test, THR surveyed top box office hits to see how many address the environmental crisis.

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00:00Hollywood evaluates films by many measures. Box office performance, critics' reviews,

00:05awards achievements, but does your favorite film pass the climate test?

00:10Using results from a climate change version of the Bechtel test,

00:13THR surveyed top box office hits to see how many addressed the environmental crisis.

00:20Let's take a look at the results.

00:23The non-profit Good Energy recently teamed up with Colby College's Buck Lab for Climate

00:27and Environment to release the Climate Reality Check as a tool to measure the representation of

00:32climate change on screen. The study was inspired by the popular Bechtel-Wallace test, which measures

00:37the representation of women in TV and film. The Climate Reality Check is pretty straightforward.

00:42It asks whether one, climate change exists in the project, and two, if a character knows it. THR took

00:49a look at the data, zeroing in on blockbusters from 2018 to 2022. How did the highest-grossing film in

00:55the MCU fair? Avengers Endgame did not pass. It's a billion to one cosmic fluke. Actually,

01:02most of the Marvel films did not pass the climate test. But over at DC, Aquaman did pass the climate

01:09reality check. Jason Momoa would be proud. Two back-to-back Tom Cruise blockbusters,

01:14Top Gun Maverick and Mission Impossible Fallout both did not pass. Jurassic World Dominion did pass.

01:21Venom, starring Tom Hardy, also passed. Jumanji The Next Level did not pass. But another Dwayne Johnson

01:29flick, Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw did pass. The Batman, interestingly, has passed,

01:36meeting just one of the elements. From the study's full data poll of 250 films, only 9.6 passed the

01:42climate reality check. However, climate inclusion is becoming more common, with climate present in twice as

01:48many films released during more recent years. Also, the study noted stories that include climate change

01:54are profitable, with films that had at least one character aware of climate change performing 10%

02:00better at the box office than those that did not. For a full look at the blockbusters that passed the

02:06climate reality check, head to THR.com.

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