Fails the Bechdel test
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
1993. Directed by Kevin Altieri and Boyd Kirkland and Frank Paur, written by Alan Burnett and Paul Dini and Martin Pasko.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 5 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
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
Batman, the costumed crime-fighter who prowls the night skies in Gotham City, soon finds there's another vigilante in town knocking off prominent mob figures. Despite the scythe-like blade for a hand, a mechanical voice and the cloud of smoke that follows the figure wherever it goes, the police and outraged officials mistake the homicidal crusader for Batman himself and demand that the city's longtime hero be brought to justice. Meanwhile, Andrea Beaumont returns to town. She is the lost love of Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy who is Batman's alter ego, and was an integral part of Wayne's decision ten years earlier to don the cape and cowl. Now, she is back in his life and is no less a disruption than the return of his old archenemy, The Joker, who has a stake in seeing the annihilation of this new vigilante, whoever it proves to be.
- Released
- 25 Dec 1993
- Genres
- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 7.8 / 10
- Metascore
- 65 / 100
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Andrea 105 lines, woman
- Bruce 77 lines, man
- Joker 73 lines, man
- Reeves 52 lines, man
- Batman 29 lines, man
- Alfred 25 lines, man
- Valestra 22 lines, man
- Beaumont 18 lines
- Chuckie 10 lines, man
- Buzz 8 lines, man
Full cast, 23 people
- Kevin Conroy as Batman (voice)
- Dana Delany as Andrea Beaumont (voice)
- Hart Bochner as Arthur Reeves (voice)
- Stacy Keach as Phantasm (voice) / Carl Beaumont (voice)
- Abe Vigoda as Salvatore Valestra (voice)
- Dick Miller as Chuckie Sol (voice)
- John P. Ryan as Buzz Bronski (voice)
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Alfred (voice)
- Bob Hastings as Commissioner Gordon (voice)
- Robert Costanzo as Detective Bullock (voice)
- Mark Hamill as the Joker (voice)
- Jane Downs as Additional Voices (voice)
- Pat Musick as Additional Voices (voice)
- Vernee Watson as Additional Voices (voice)
- Ed Gilbert as Additional Voices (voice)
- Peter Renaday as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jeff Bennett as Additional Voices (voice)
- Charles Howerton as Additional Voices (voice)
- Thom Pinto as Additional Voices (voice)
- Marilu Henner as Additional Voices (voice)
- Neil Ross as Additional Voices (voice)
- Arleen Sorkin as Mrs. Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
- Judi Durand as World of the Future Fair Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 17% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 105
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 to 12 | 2 | 13 |
| 13 to 15 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 9 |
| 19 to 21 | 14 | 10 |
| 22 to 24 | 10 | 17 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 17 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 8 |
| 31 to 33 | 5 | 3 |
| 34 to 36 | 5 | 6 |
| 37 to 39 | 12 | 15 |
| 40 to 42 | 7 | 14 |
| 43 to 45 | 1 | 12 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 8 |
| 49 to 51 | 1 | 10 |
| 52 to 54 | 8 | 7 |
| 55 to 57 | 3 | 1 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 5 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 3 |
| 64 to 66 | 10 | 49 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 4 |
| 70 to 72 | 3 | 20 |
| 73 to 75 | 4 | 6 |
| 76 to 78 | 8 | 2 |
| 79 to 81 | 3 | 10 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 5 |
| 85 to 87 | 2 | 25 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 14 |
| 91 to 93 | 1 | 4 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 3 |
| 97 to 99 | 8 | 24 |
| 100 to 102 | 2 | 16 |
| 103 to 105 | 2 | 8 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 24 are women's.
113 lines from women, 367 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 16 men in the cast. 5 women and 27 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 36 of 575.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 51 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 22% of the words (1,097), men 78% (3,864). Women have 24% 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
1
Two men
42
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 13 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 10% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Bruce Timm (man), Eric Radomski (man)
- Written by
- Alan Burnett (man), Martin Pasko (man), Paul Dini (man), Michael Reaves (man)
- Story by
- Alan Burnett (man)
- Produced by
- Benjamin Melniker (man), Michael Uslan (man)
- Shot by
- Sung-Il Cho (gender not listed)
- Edited by
- Al Breitenbach (gender not listed)
- Music by
- Shirley Walker (woman)
- Cast by
- Andrea Romano (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Visual Effects
0 women, 22 men, 40 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 19 men, 19 not listed
-
Sound
7 women, 16 men, 11 not listed
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Production
1 women, 6 men, 7 not listed
-
Writing
0 women, 6 men
-
Editing
0 women, 0 men, 5 not listed
-
Directing
0 women, 2 men
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Camera
0 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 37 on average. Men: 57 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Dana Delany 37
Men
Hart Bochner 37, Kevin Conroy 38, Robert Costanzo 51, Stacy Keach 52, John P. Ryan 57, Dick Miller 65, Bob Hastings 68, Abe Vigoda 72, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 75
Exhibit G: the money
It made 94% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $6 million
- Box office
- $5.6 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 105 scenes and 575 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
