Passes the Bechdel test
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018. Directed by Drew Goddard, written by Drew Goddard.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
13 women characters. 7 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 81. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.
The film
Six strangers, (Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny and Lewis Pullman) each with their own secrets, meet at the El Royale hotel of Lake Tahoe. Taking place over one night, alliances are made and secrets are revealed.
- Released
- 12 Oct 2018
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 60 / 100
- Awards
- 2 wins & 12 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Darlene 145 lines, woman
- Billy Lee 114 lines, man
- Father Flynn 95 lines, man
- Miles 92 lines, man
- Dock 71 lines, man
- Emily 55 lines, woman
- Laramie 50 lines, man
- Rose 31 lines, woman
- Dwight 27 lines, man
- Buddy 14 lines, man
Full cast, 38 people
- Jeff Bridges as Father Daniel Flynn / Dock O'Kelly
- Cynthia Erivo as Darlene Sweet
- Lewis Pullman as Miles Miller
- Dakota Johnson as Emily Summerspring
- Cailee Spaeny as Rose Summerspring
- Jon Hamm as Laramie Seymour Sullivan / Dwight Broadbeck
- Chris Hemsworth as Billy Lee
- Nick Offerman as Felix O'Kelly
- Xavier Dolan as Buddy Sunday
- Shea Whigham as Dr. Woodbury Laurence
- Mark O'Brien as Larsen Rogers
- Charles Halford as Sammy Wilds
- Jim O'Heir as Milton Wyrick
- Gerry Nairn as Reporter Paul Kraemer
- Alvina August as Vesta Shears
- London Morrison as Angela Harris, Vesta's Backup Singer
- Bethany Brown as Florence Lemons, Vesta's Backup Singer
- Rebecca Toolan as Helen Gandy
- Hannah Zirke as Young Emily Summerspring
- Billy Wickman as Hutch Summerspring
- Charlotte Mosby as Young Rose Summerspring
- William B. Davis as Judge Gordon Hoffman
- Manny Jacinto as Waring 'Wade' Espiritu
- Tally Rodin as Silvana 'Millie' Melvin
- Sophia Lauchlin Hirt as Annabell Czuchlewski
- Jonathan Whitesell as Chris 'Flicker' Grimes
- Synto D. Misati as Norris 'Roman' Kindel
- Austin A.J. Abell as Young Miles Miller
- Katharine Isabelle as Auntie Ruth Pugh
- Sarah Smyth as Ginger Miller
- Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage)
- Jocelyne Gaumond as Keno Girl (uncredited)
- Austin James as Soldier (uncredited)
- Caroline Koziol as Ivona (uncredited)
- James Quach as NVA Captain (uncredited)
- John Specogna as District Attorney (uncredited)
- Stephen Stanton as J. Edgar Hoover (uncredited)
- Vincent Washington as Sergeant Renfro (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 4% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 81
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 23 | 92 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 to 14 | 4 | 5 |
| 15 to 16 | 17 | 20 |
| 17 to 18 | 34 | 42 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 4 |
| 21 to 22 | 3 | 11 |
| 23 to 24 | 8 | 11 |
| 25 to 26 | 6 | 2 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 32 |
| 29 to 30 | 1 | 19 |
| 31 to 32 | 1 | 2 |
| 33 to 34 | 2 | 3 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 to 38 | 9 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 5 | 0 |
| 41 to 42 | 4 | 9 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 29 |
| 45 to 46 | 0 | 19 |
| 47 to 48 | 20 | 19 |
| 49 to 50 | 4 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 5 | 0 |
| 53 to 54 | 9 | 0 |
| 55 to 56 | 3 | 0 |
| 57 to 58 | 3 | 0 |
| 59 to 60 | 5 | 0 |
| 61 to 62 | 1 | 1 |
| 63 to 64 | 1 | 2 |
| 65 to 66 | 9 | 4 |
| 67 to 68 | 4 | 11 |
| 69 to 70 | 19 | 91 |
| 71 to 72 | 0 | 1 |
| 73 to 74 | 24 | 45 |
| 75 to 76 | 3 | 9 |
| 77 to 78 | 4 | 4 |
| 79 to 80 | 3 | 26 |
| 81 to 81 | 2 | 3 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
ROSE: Okay, good. EMILY: Rosie... EMILY: Get out of the way.
ROSE: Hi! It’s me. I don’t know. I’m with Em. She had me all tied up. I think she shot a cop. EMILY: What is this place? ROSE: We’re in a hotel. I don’t know. You will? Okay, let me look...
ROSE: It says “El Royale.” EMILY: Rosie -- c’mon -- ROSE: I gotta go. Okay. See you soon. EMILY: Get up! MOVE.
ROSE: Nice to meet you, Miles. EMILY: Where are the others?
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 31 are women's.
241 lines from women, 526 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
13 women and 23 men in the cast. 7 women and 17 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 53 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 23% of the words (2,072), men 77% (6,885). Women have 31% 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
9
Two men
33
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 10 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Drew Goddard (man)
- Written by
- Drew Goddard (man)
- Produced by
- Drew Goddard (man), Jeremy Latcham (man)
- Shot by
- Seamus McGarvey (man)
- Edited by
- Lisa Lassek (woman)
- Music by
- Michael Giacchino (man)
- Production design by
- Martin Whist (man)
- Costumes by
- Danny Glicker (man)
- Cast by
- Carmen Cuba (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
11 women, 41 men, 15 not listed
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Art
6 women, 6 men, 12 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 13 men, 5 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
7 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
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Production
3 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 4 men, 6 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 27 on average. Men: 43 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Cailee Spaeny 20, Dakota Johnson 29, Cynthia Erivo 31
Men
Lewis Pullman 25, Xavier Dolan 29, Chris Hemsworth 35, Jon Hamm 47, Nick Offerman 48, Shea Whigham 49, Jeff Bridges 68
Exhibit H: the money
It made 100% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $32 million
- Box office
- $31.9 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 81 scenes and 795 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
