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Christ Complex

2012. Directed by Jeffrey Scott Richards, written by Jeffrey Scott Richards.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    The film has at least two women characters.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 3 scenes out of 48.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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Poster for Christ Complex

The film

Zoey, a woman trying to find her role in this world, saves troubled men in search of her own completion. She meets Quinn, a guy who believes he is the world's savior. He must fight a 'friend' to the death to stop the oncoming Apocalypse. This is the story of Zoey taking her newfound charity case under her wing as she is compelled to help the damaged Quinn come to reality, while fighting her own past demons as they are revealed.

Released
06 Oct 2012
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy
Rated
Not Rated
IMDb
7.1 / 10
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Zoey 218 lines, woman
  2. Quinn 163 lines
  3. Louis 104 lines, man
  4. Anna 58 lines, woman
  5. Ryan Blood 44 lines, man
  6. Jack 39 lines
  7. Rick 20 lines
  8. Jake 10 lines, man
  9. Jennifer 10 lines, woman
  10. Mrs. Rhodes 5 lines, woman
Full cast, 4 people
  • Jessica Blankenship as Zoey
  • Todd Stubbe as Quinn
  • Chris Parsons as Louis
  • Jenny Rebekah Richards as Jennifer

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 33% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 48

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 100
2 to 2010
3 to 3180
4 to 4704
5 to 580
6 to 610
7 to 7190
8 to 890
9 to 903
10 to 1005
11 to 1107
12 to 12110
13 to 1320
14 to 1480
15 to 15011
16 to 1600
17 to 1701
18 to 1804
19 to 1901
20 to 2000
21 to 21120
22 to 22017
23 to 23011
24 to 24133
25 to 2500
26 to 2600
27 to 2780
28 to 2870
29 to 2907
30 to 3090
31 to 3101
32 to 3202
33 to 3320
34 to 34160
35 to 35035
36 to 3600
37 to 37133
38 to 3877
39 to 3900
40 to 40101
41 to 4162
42 to 4200
43 to 4300
44 to 4400
45 to 4531
46 to 462026
47 to 4710
48 to 48204

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.
ZOEY: Anna, you going to call the guard dog off? ANNA: David Smith's Candytakers is on tonight. I'm relaxing and not getting in the middle.
ANNA: What about tomorrow? Or never is good. ZOEY: What's going on?? ZOEY: Quinn? What's wrong?
ZOEY: Likewise. JENNIFER: We better get going. We're going to grab something to eat. ZOEY: I didn't catch your name.
JENNIFER: You OK? ZOEY: Yeah I'm fine. Enjoy dinner. JENNIFER: See you later on.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 64 are women's.

293 lines from women, 166 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

1 women and 1 men in the cast. 1 women and 1 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 22 of 683. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 40 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 64% of the words (2,823), men 36% (1,604).

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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

None of the 2 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 0% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Jeffrey Scott Richards (man)
Written by
Jeffrey Scott Richards (man)

The crew, department by department

  • Directing

    0 women, 1 men

  • Writing

    0 women, 1 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 33 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Jenny Rebekah Richards 33

Exhibit H: the money

What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.

Budget
$1,000
Box office
Not listed

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 48 scenes and 683 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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