Fails the Bechdel test

Alien vs. Predator

Name: Alien vs. Predator
Released: 2004

2004. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, written by Paul W.S. Anderson and Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

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

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

The film

When a private satellite encounters an unidentified source of heat in Antarctica and it is found to be a pyramid buried deep underground , a search team comprising of top-of-the-line archaeologists and engineers is sent to Antarctica to find out more . Once there , the team comes across signs which indicate that the place is inhabited by an unknown alien species . It is not long before the aliens begin to hunt the team members . At the same time , a trio of coming-of-age Predators have arrived to collect the skulls of the aliens as trophies , and the humans are caught between a deadly battle between the two warring species .

Released: 13 Aug 2004
Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 5.7 / 10
Metascore: 29 / 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

Lex 164 lines, woman
Sebastian 104 lines, man
Miller 62 lines, man
Weyland 53 lines, man
Max 35 lines, man
Quinn 22 lines, man
Vincenzo 7 lines, man
Gabe 6 lines
Dane 5 lines, man
Jamison 5 lines, woman

Full cast, 27 people

Sanaa Lathan as Alexa Woods
Lance Henriksen as Charles Bishop Weyland
Ian Whyte as Scar
Raoul Bova as Sebastian de Rosa
Ewen Bremner as Graeme Miller
Colin Salmon as Maxwell Stafford
Tommy Flanagan as Mark Verheiden
Joseph Rye as Joe Connors
Agathe de La Boulaye as Adele Rousseau
Carsten Nørgaard as Rusten Quinn
Sam Troughton as Thomas Parks
Petr Jákl as Stone
Pavel Bezděk as Bass
Kieran Bew as Klaus
Carsten Voigt as Mikkel
Jan Filipenský as Boris
Adrian Bouchet as Sven
Andy Lucas as Juan Ramirez
Liz May Brice as Supervisor
Glenn Conroy as Technician
Eoin McCarthy as Karl
Karima McAdams as Sacrificial Maiden
Tom Woodruff Jr. as Grid
Joseph Balderrama as High Priest (uncredited)
Alec Gillis as Technician (uncredited)
Alex Lorre as Spaceship Crew (uncredited)
Jack Pierce as Co-Pilot (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 100

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	14	6
7 to 9	7	22
10 to 12	23	63
13 to 15	6	8
16 to 18	0	0
19 to 21	8	14
22 to 24	5	21
25 to 27	7	12
28 to 30	0	3
31 to 33	2	8
34 to 36	1	1
37 to 39	9	30
40 to 42	0	4
43 to 45	5	18
46 to 48	8	9
49 to 51	6	11
52 to 54	4	14
55 to 57	4	12
58 to 60	13	14
61 to 63	2	4
64 to 66	3	11
67 to 69	13	17
70 to 72	5	1
73 to 75	15	5
76 to 78	6	2
79 to 81	4	0
82 to 84	1	0
85 to 87	0	1
88 to 90	0	0
91 to 93	0	0
94 to 96	2	0
97 to 99	1	0
100 to 100	0	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 36 are women's.

174 lines from women, 311 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

4 women and 23 men in the cast. 1 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 6 of 525. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 27 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 38% of the words (2,070), men 62% (3,318). Women have 36% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

Two women

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

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

Directed by: Paul W. S. Anderson (man)
Written by: Paul W. S. Anderson (man)
Produced by: David Giler (man), Walter Hill (man), Gordon Carroll (man), John Davis (man)
Shot by: David Johnson (man)
Edited by: Alexander Berner (man)
Music by: Harald Kloser (man)
Production design by: Richard Bridgland (man)
Costumes by: Magali Guidasci (woman)
Cast by: Nancy Bishop (woman), Suzanne M. Smith (woman)