Passes the Bechdel test
Anaconda
1997. Directed by Luis Llosa, written by Hans Bauer and Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr..
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
2 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 80. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.
The film
In search of the elusive Shirishama tribe, bold director Terri Flores leads an equally ambitious team of six documentarians deep into the Brazilian rainforest. But in vain. And then, while sailing along the winding Amazon River, they encounter Paul Serone, a stranded adventurer claiming to have evidence of the mysterious tribe's existence. As a result, this unexpected meeting renews the group's hopes. However, they are in hostile territory; this is the habitat of a monstrous apex predator. Now, with Paul seeming to know more than he is letting on, a slow and agonising death awaits the unsuspecting invaders. Will they find a way to escape the tightening coils of the mighty, twelve-metre anaconda?
- Released
- 11 Apr 1997
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Horror
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 5 / 10
- Metascore
- 37 / 100
- Awards
- 6 wins & 11 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Terri 112 lines, woman
- Sarone 79 lines, man
- Danny 64 lines, man
- Cale 47 lines, man
- Gary 40 lines, man
- Westridge 21 lines, man
- Barone 19 lines
- Denise 14 lines, woman
- Mateo 13 lines, man
- Derise 11 lines
Full cast, 11 people
- Jennifer Lopez as Terri Flores
- Ice Cube as Danny Rich
- Jon Voight as Paul Serone
- Eric Stoltz as Dr. Steven Cale
- Jonathan Hyde as Warren Westridge
- Owen Wilson as Gary Dixon
- Kari Wührer as Denise Kalberg
- Vincent Castellanos as Mateo
- Danny Trejo as Poacher
- Frank Welker as Anaconda (voice)
- Gary A. Hecker as Anaconda (voice)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 21% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 80
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 7 | 6 |
| 13 to 14 | 5 | 19 |
| 15 to 16 | 15 | 11 |
| 17 to 18 | 16 | 41 |
| 19 to 20 | 2 | 12 |
| 21 to 22 | 5 | 29 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 7 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 to 30 | 3 | 7 |
| 31 to 32 | 1 | 7 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 1 | 0 |
| 41 to 42 | 8 | 18 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 2 |
| 45 to 46 | 1 | 15 |
| 47 to 48 | 4 | 5 |
| 49 to 50 | 7 | 23 |
| 51 to 52 | 4 | 10 |
| 53 to 54 | 4 | 1 |
| 55 to 56 | 5 | 16 |
| 57 to 58 | 4 | 6 |
| 59 to 60 | 7 | 0 |
| 61 to 62 | 3 | 2 |
| 63 to 64 | 0 | 2 |
| 65 to 66 | 0 | 3 |
| 67 to 68 | 5 | 6 |
| 69 to 70 | 8 | 7 |
| 71 to 72 | 6 | 7 |
| 73 to 74 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 to 76 | 2 | 0 |
| 77 to 78 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 to 80 | 4 | 7 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scene
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
DENISE: _ · You bastard! TERRI: Better you find out now.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 32 are women's.
127 lines from women, 269 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
2 women and 9 men in the cast. 2 women and 6 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 5 of 503.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 28 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 28% of the words (1,493), men 72% (3,933). Women have 32% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: 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
5
Two men
42
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Luis Llosa (man)
- Written by
- Jack Epps Jr. (man), Hans Bauer (man), Jim Cash (man)
- Produced by
- Verna Harrah (woman), Carole Little (woman), Leonard Rabinowitz (man), Jack Epps Jr. (man)
- Shot by
- Wilmer Butler (man)
- Edited by
- Michael R. Miller (man)
- Music by
- Randy Edelman (man)
- Production design by
- Kirk M. Petruccelli (man)
- Costumes by
- Kathy Monderine (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Mindy Marin (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
6 women, 25 men, 12 not listed
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Production
8 women, 10 men, 4 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 9 men, 6 not listed
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Art
1 women, 4 men, 9 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 9 men, 3 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 1 men, 6 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 3 men, 4 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 28 on average. Men: 42 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jennifer Lopez 27, Kari Wührer 29
Men
Ice Cube 27, Owen Wilson 28, Eric Stoltz 35, Vincent Castellanos 35, Jonathan Hyde 48, Frank Welker 51, Danny Trejo 52, Jon Voight 58
Exhibit H: the money
It made 3.0 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $45 million
- Box office
- $137 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 80 scenes and 503 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
