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22 July

2018. Directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Paul Greengrass and Åsne Seierstad.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    19 women characters. 9 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    Women do talk to each other.
  3. No 3. About something besides a man
    Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

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The film

In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. A three-part story. About the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

Released
10 Oct 2018
Genres
Crime, Drama, History
Rated
R
IMDb
6.8 / 10
Metascore
69 / 100
Awards
2 wins & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Breivik 120 lines, man
  2. Viljar 119 lines, man
  3. Lippestad 117 lines, man
  4. Christin 81 lines, woman
  5. Lara 53 lines, woman
  6. Prime Minister 43 lines
  7. Sveinn 41 lines, man
  8. Extremist 24 lines, man
  9. Inga 23 lines
  10. Family Lawyer 19 lines, woman
Full cast, 47 people
  • Jonas Strand Gravli as Viljar Hanssen
  • Anders Danielsen Lie as Anders Behring Breivik
  • Jon Øigarden as Geir Lippestad
  • Seda Witt as Lara Rashid
  • Ola G. Furuseth as Prime Minister Stoltenberg
  • Maria Bock as Christin Kristoffersen
  • Isak Bakli Aglen as Torje Hanssen
  • Thorbjørn Harr as Sveinn Are Hanssen
  • Marit Andreassen as Prime Minister Aide
  • Øystein Martinsen as Prime Minister Aide
  • Valborg Frøysnes as Prime Minister Aide
  • Thor-Harald Normann as Simon Sæbø
  • Anders Kulsrud Storruste as Anders Kristiansen
  • Monica Borg Fure as Utøya Camp Leader
  • Mathias Eckhoff as Utøya Security
  • Selma Strøm Sönmez as Bano Rashid
  • Hilde Olausson as Breivik's Mother
  • Lena Kristin Ellingsen as Signe Lippestad
  • Anneke von der Lippe as PST Director
  • Trygve Svindland as Justice Minister
  • Trim Balaj as Odd Ivar Grøn
  • Pål Espen Kilstad as PM's Bodyguard
  • Håkon Smeby as NRK Reporter
  • Endre Hellestveit as Security Official
  • Lars Arentz-Hansen as Security Official
  • Turid Gunnes as Family Lawyer
  • Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen as Prosecution Lawyer
  • Hasse Lindmo as Prosecution Lawyer
  • Tone Danielsen as Judge Wenche Arntzen
  • Vivian Hein as Defense Lawyer
  • Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen as Defense Lawyer
  • Charlotte Grundt as Detective Anderson
  • Ingri Enger Damon as Inquiry Lawyer
  • Mikkel Bratt Silset as Hønefoss Policeman
  • André Sørum as Hønefoss Detective
  • Tómas Guðbjartsson as Op Room Trauma Surgeon
  • Andri Wilberg Orrason as Op Room Trauma Doctor
  • Eindride Eidsvold as Extremist
  • Joakim Skarli as Knut Arne Pettersen , Paramedic
  • Marita Fjeldheim Wierdal as Forensics Officer
  • Terje Ranes as Parent
  • Øyvind Venstad Kjeksrud as Parent
  • Silje Breivik as Parent
  • Mette Scarth Tønseth as Parent
  • Ellen Birgitte Winther as Parent
  • Ole Aleksander Wold Lien
  • Tommy Hyving as Security Guard

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 6 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 23% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 271

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 612
7 to 1205
13 to 1833
19 to 24617
25 to 3002
31 to 3601
37 to 4215
43 to 48912
49 to 5402
55 to 60111
61 to 661012
67 to 7202
73 to 7807
79 to 8405
85 to 9025
91 to 9602
97 to 10232
103 to 10804
109 to 114013
115 to 120729
121 to 1261822
127 to 132118
133 to 138311
139 to 1443017
145 to 150521
151 to 156124
157 to 1621224
163 to 1681312
169 to 1741015
175 to 18069
181 to 18638
187 to 19214
193 to 19803
199 to 204824
205 to 210025
211 to 216208
217 to 22200
223 to 22826
229 to 234015
235 to 2401164
241 to 24651
247 to 25203
253 to 2581110
259 to 264311
265 to 270213
271 to 27100

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 29 are women's.

208 lines from women, 509 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

19 women and 26 men in the cast. 9 women and 21 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 936. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 51 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 27% of the words (2,116), men 73% (5,660). Women have 29% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit D: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit E: behind the camera

4 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 38% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Paul Greengrass (man)
Written by
Paul Greengrass (man)
From the novel by
Åsne Seierstad (woman)
Produced by
Scott Rudin (man), Gregory Goodman (man), Eli Bush (man)
Shot by
Pål Ulvik Rokseth (man)
Edited by
William Goldenberg (man)
Music by
Sune Martin (man)
Production design by
Liv Ask (woman)
Costumes by
Margrét Einarsdóttir (woman)
Cast by
Dan Hubbard (man), Ellen Michelsen (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Sound

    1 women, 9 men

  • Production

    2 women, 6 men

  • Costume & Make-Up

    4 women, 0 men, 3 not listed

  • Directing

    1 women, 2 men, 1 not listed

  • Art

    2 women, 0 men, 1 not listed

  • Editing

    1 women, 1 men

  • Writing

    1 women, 1 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 1 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 39 on average. Men: 40 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Seda Witt 24, Maria Bock 40, Marit Andreassen 52

Men

Jonas Strand Gravli 26, Anders Danielsen Lie 39, Øystein Martinsen 42, Ola G. Furuseth 43, Thorbjørn Harr 44, Jon Øigarden 47

Exhibit G: the money

What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.

Budget
$20 million
Box office
Not listed

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 271 scenes and 936 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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