Fails the Bechdel test
Bad Country
2022. Directed by Chris Brinker, written by Jonathan Hirschbein and Mike Barnett and Don 'Bud' Connor.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
2 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring. So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss who ordered
- Released
- 01 May 2022
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.8 / 10
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Bud 177 lines, man
- Jesse 88 lines, man
- Braddock 42 lines, man
- Catfish 37 lines, man
- Lucian 31 lines, man
- Cobb 29 lines, man
- Fitch 29 lines, man
- Kiersey 28 lines, man
- Marandino 26 lines, man
- Grace 18 lines, man
Full cast, 19 people
- Matt Dillon as Jesse Weiland
- Willem Dafoe as Bud Carter
- Neal McDonough as Daniel Kiersey
- Amy Smart as Lynn Weiland
- Christopher Rodriguez Marquette as Martin Fitch
- Don Yesso as Captain Bannock
- Kevin Chapman as Daniel Morris
- Bill Duke as John Nokes
- Tom Berenger as Lutin Adams
- Christopher Denham as Tommy Weiland
- Alex Solowitz as Buzz McKinnnon
- John Edward Lee as Catfish Stanton
- Ritchie Montgomery as Nady Grace
- Frederick Weller as Detective Shepherd
- Patrick Brinker as Detective Cobb
- Jeff Leaf as David Marandino
- Pat Fisher as Ma Carter
- Ronn Surels as Henchman (uncredited)
- Ronn Surels as Hitman #5
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 11% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 232
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 to 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 to 15 | 0 | 37 |
| 16 to 20 | 0 | 13 |
| 21 to 25 | 3 | 27 |
| 26 to 30 | 0 | 9 |
| 31 to 35 | 0 | 6 |
| 36 to 40 | 0 | 22 |
| 41 to 45 | 0 | 35 |
| 46 to 50 | 8 | 22 |
| 51 to 55 | 0 | 32 |
| 56 to 60 | 0 | 7 |
| 61 to 65 | 0 | 17 |
| 66 to 70 | 3 | 43 |
| 71 to 75 | 0 | 25 |
| 76 to 80 | 1 | 3 |
| 81 to 85 | 0 | 0 |
| 86 to 90 | 0 | 5 |
| 91 to 95 | 0 | 21 |
| 96 to 100 | 5 | 47 |
| 101 to 105 | 0 | 28 |
| 106 to 110 | 0 | 7 |
| 111 to 115 | 0 | 16 |
| 116 to 120 | 0 | 1 |
| 121 to 125 | 0 | 5 |
| 126 to 130 | 0 | 14 |
| 131 to 135 | 1 | 3 |
| 136 to 140 | 0 | 3 |
| 141 to 145 | 0 | 12 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 3 |
| 151 to 155 | 0 | 28 |
| 156 to 160 | 0 | 26 |
| 161 to 165 | 0 | 22 |
| 166 to 170 | 0 | 1 |
| 171 to 175 | 0 | 15 |
| 176 to 180 | 0 | 15 |
| 181 to 185 | 0 | 5 |
| 186 to 190 | 0 | 13 |
| 191 to 195 | 0 | 5 |
| 196 to 200 | 0 | 6 |
| 201 to 205 | 0 | 12 |
| 206 to 210 | 0 | 5 |
| 211 to 215 | 0 | 3 |
| 216 to 220 | 0 | 2 |
| 221 to 225 | 0 | 0 |
| 226 to 230 | 0 | 2 |
| 231 to 232 | 0 | 1 |
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, 3 are women's.
21 lines from women, 635 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
2 women and 16 men in the cast. 2 women and 13 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 80 of 737.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 199 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 2% of the words (163), men 98% (6,672). Women have 3% 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
Two women
0
Two men
79
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 18 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Chris Brinker (man)
- Written by
- Jonathan Hirschbein (man)
- Story by
- Mike Barnett (gender not listed), Bud Connor (gender not listed), Tom Abernathy (man), Jonathan Hirschbein (man)
- Produced by
- Chris Brinker (man), Kevin Chapman (man), Jim Crabbe (gender not listed), Scott Einbinder (man), Nancy Green-Keyes (woman), Matthew Rhodes (man)
- Shot by
- Zoran Popović (man)
- Edited by
- Michael J. Duthie (man)
- Production design by
- Tom Lisowski (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Mary E. McLeod (woman)
- Cast by
- Nancy Green-Keyes (woman), Matthew Barry (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
3 women, 15 men, 16 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 5 men, 12 not listed
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Art
1 women, 3 men, 12 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
5 women, 1 men, 9 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 3 men, 11 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 3 men, 11 not listed
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Other crew
0 women, 4 men, 6 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 38 on average. Men: 51 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Amy Smart 38
Men
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette 29, Christopher Denham 29, Neal McDonough 48, Matt Dillon 50, Kevin Chapman 52, Willem Dafoe 59, Don Yesso 59, Tom Berenger 65, Bill Duke 71
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 232 scenes and 737 lines of dialogue. How the test works
