Passes the Bechdel test
Cube
1997. Directed by Vincenzo Natali, written by André Bijelic and Vincenzo Natali and Graeme Manson.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
2 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1. -
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
Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.
- Released
- 10 Dec 1997
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 61 / 100
- Awards
- 13 wins & 9 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Quentin 210 lines, man
- Leaven 148 lines, woman
- Worth 118 lines, man
- Holloway 105 lines, woman
- Kazan 37 lines, man
- Rennes 15 lines, man
- Hooloway 1 lines
- Leaven/Worth 1 lines, man
- Qientin 1 lines
- Title And Intro 1 lines
Full cast, 7 people
- Nicole De Boer as Leaven
- Nicky Guadagni as Holloway
- Maurice Dean Wint as Quentin
- David Hewlett as Worth
- Andrew Miller as Kazan
- Wayne Robson as Rennes
- Julian Richings as Alderson
Who talks, scene by scene
We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.
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.
HOLLOWAY: Middle of the night. It's like Chile. They always come in the middle of the night. LEAVEN: Who? HOLLOWAY: Only the government can build something this ugly.
HOLLOWAY: There'd better not be! We have about three days without food and water before we're too weak to move. LEAVEN: They have to feed us, don't they?
HOLLOWAY: You're kidding right? LEAVEN: You can get us out?
HOLLOWAY: I've been over it again and again, why would they throw innocent people in here? Are we being punished? LEAVEN: I've never done anything to deserve this!
LEAVEN: There is nothing else. My parents are these people I live with them... I'm boring. HOLLOWAY: I think we have to ask the big questions: What does it want? What is it
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 40 are women's.
253 lines from women, 381 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
2 women and 5 men in the cast. 2 women and 4 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 5 of 637.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 20 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 43% of the words (1,799), men 57% (2,429). Women have 40% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
30
Two men
61
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 46% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Vincenzo Natali (man)
- Written by
- Graeme Manson (man), André Bijelic (man), Vincenzo Natali (man)
- Produced by
- Betty Orr (woman), Mehra Meh (gender not listed)
- Shot by
- Derek Rogers (man)
- Edited by
- John Sanders (man)
- Music by
- Mark Korven (man)
- Production design by
- Jasna Stefanovic (woman)
- Costumes by
- Wendy May Moore (gender not listed)
The crew, department by department
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Camera
2 women, 7 men, 16 not listed
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Sound
5 women, 7 men, 13 not listed
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Art
5 women, 0 men, 10 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 5 men, 4 not listed
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Production
2 women, 1 men, 6 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 0 men, 5 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 36 on average. Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Nicole De Boer 26, Nicky Guadagni 45
Men
Andrew Miller 28, David Hewlett 29, Maurice Dean Wint 33, Julian Richings 41, Wayne Robson 51
Exhibit H: the money
It made 34.8 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $257,899
- Box office
- $9 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 637 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
