Passes the Bechdel test

Antz

Name: Antz
Released: 1998

1998. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson, written by Todd Alcott and Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 58.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

In an anthill with millions of inhabitants, Z 4195 is a worker ant. Feeling insignificant in a conformity system, he accidentally meets beautiful Princess Bala, who has a similar problem on the other end of the social scale. In order to meet her again, Z switches sides with his soldier friend Weaver - only to become a hero in the course of events. By this he unwillingly crosses the sinister plans of ambitious General Mandible (Bala's fiancé, by the way), who wants to divide the ant society into a superior, strong race (soldiers) and an inferior, to-be-eliminated race (the workers). But Z and Bala, both unaware of the dangerous situation, try to leave the oppressive system by heading for Insectopia, a place where food paves the streets.

Released: 02 Oct 1998
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.5 / 10
Metascore: 73 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 6 wins & 14 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Z 212 lines, man
Bala 110 lines, woman
Formica 67 lines, man
Weaver 42 lines, man
Azteca 22 lines, woman
Queen 22 lines, woman
Barbatus 18 lines, man
Male Wasp 13 lines
Mandible 12 lines, man
Carpenter 11 lines, man

Full cast, 16 people

Woody Allen as Z-4195 “Z” (voice)
Sharon Stone as Princess Bala (voice)
Dan Aykroyd as Chip (voice)
Anne Bancroft as Queen (voice)
Danny Glover as Barbatus (voice)
Gene Hackman as General Mandible (voice)
Jane Curtin as Muffy (voice)
Sylvester Stallone as Weaver (voice)
Jennifer Lopez as Azteca (voice)
Christopher Walken as Colonel Cutter (voice)
John Mahoney as Grebs (Drunk Scout) (voice)
Paul Mazursky as Psychologist (voice)
Grant Shaud as Foreman (voice)
Jim Cummings as Additional Voices (voice)
April Winchell as Additional Voices (voice)
Jerry Sroka as Additional Voices (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 58

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	2
3 to 4	5	9
5 to 6	17	21
7 to 8	3	16
9 to 10	17	35
11 to 12	2	28
13 to 14	0	10
15 to 16	0	19
17 to 18	7	9
19 to 20	2	16
21 to 22	14	29
23 to 24	19	14
25 to 26	11	12
27 to 28	11	13
29 to 30	4	22
31 to 32	11	25
33 to 34	5	13
35 to 36	1	6
37 to 38	0	8
39 to 40	3	10
41 to 42	2	3
43 to 44	0	1
45 to 46	0	9
47 to 48	9	8
49 to 50	3	11
51 to 52	2	1
53 to 54	3	9
55 to 56	3	20
57 to 58	1	6

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.

AZTECA: I'm Z! BALA: No, I'm Z.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

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

155 lines from women, 385 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 11 men in the cast. 3 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 18 of 646. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 54 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 25% of the words (1,452), men 75% (4,280). Women have 29% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 28% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Eric Darnell (man), Tim Johnson (man)
Written by: Paul Weitz (man), Todd Alcott (man), Chris Weitz (man)
Produced by: Patty Wooton (gender not listed), Bradford Lewis (man), Aron Warner (man)
Edited by: Stan Webb (gender not listed)
Music by: John Powell (man), Harry Gregson-Williams (man)
Production design by: John Bell (gender not listed)
Cast by: Leslee Feldman (woman)