Passes the Bechdel test
Den of Thieves
2018. Directed by Christian Gudegast, written by Christian Gudegast and Paul T. Scheuring.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
-
Yes
1. At least two women
12 women characters. 10 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 166. -
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
A gritty L.A crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan an impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.
- Released
- 19 Jan 2018
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7 / 10
- Metascore
- 49 / 100
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Big Nick 169 lines, man
- Merrimen 118 lines, man
- Donnie 83 lines, man
- Enson 48 lines, man
- Gus 26 lines, man
- Tony Z 26 lines, man
- Bosco 18 lines, man
- Bob 16 lines, man
- Willy Lump Lump 15 lines, man
- Borracho 14 lines, man
Full cast, 67 people
- Gerard Butler as 'Big Nick' O'Brien
- Pablo Schreiber as Ray Merrimen
- O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Donnie Wilson
- 50 Cent as Enson Levoux
- Meadow Williams as Holly
- Maurice Compte as Benny 'Borracho' Magalon
- Brian Van Holt as Murph Connors
- Evan Jones as Bo 'Bosco' Ostroman
- Mo McRae as Gus Henderson
- Kaiwi Lyman as 'Tony Z' Zapata
- Dawn Olivieri as Debbie O'Brien
- Eric Braeden as Ziggy Zerhusen
- Jordan Bridges as Lobbin' Bob
- Lewis Tan as Secret Service Lobby Guard #1
- Cooper Andrews as Mack
- Marcus LaVoi as Marcus Rhodes
- Nate Boyer as Secret Service Guard Dale Russell
- John Lewis as Secret Service Guard Johnny McMann
- Ron J. Rock as Junior
- Malieek Straughter as Luigi
- Charline St. Charles as Doris
- Tracey Bonner as Sharon
- Max Holloway as Bas
- Oleg Taktarov as Alexi
- Mario Cortez as LAPD SWAT Negotiator
- Charles Payne as LAPD Metro Cop
- Hoop as LAPD Metro Cop
- Timothy Douglas Perez as Brinks Messenger
- Matthew Cornwell as Bank Manager
- Brandon Alston as Rolando
- Alix Lapri as Maloa
- Sonya Balmores as Malia
- Elle Whitfield as McKenna O'Brien
- Madelyn Lazar as Cassady O'Brien
- Cullen Ries as Gardena Cop
- Desmond Phillips as Brinks Secretary Al
- Jay Dobyns as Wolfgang
- Tsi Chin Li-McCall as Cou-Chi
- Adam Drescher as Process Server
- Cory Scott Allen as Debbie's Date
- Nick Loeb as Ruud
- Michelle Keller as Sandee
- Dayana Rincon as Latina Hostage
- Jermaine Rivers as Fed Receiving Guard Jackson
- Jay DeVon Johnson as Fed Receiving Guard Weir
- Michael Bisping as Connor
- Brendan Kelly as FCI Cop
- Bob Jennings as LAPD Metro Lieutenant
- Joshua D. Gormley as Merrimen's Boxing Trainer
- Ulysses Diaz as Merrimen's Boxing Trainer
- Tony Finau as Tongan Leader
- Salesi Tongamoa as Tongan Cargo Hand
- Lyon Beckwith as Tongan Cargo Hand
- Fotukava Malu as Tongan Cargo Hand
- Tufa Liva as Tongan Cargo Hand
- Hemi Mataele as Tongan Cargo Hand
- Tomu Osborne as Tongan Cargo Hand
- Natasha Kerry Gudegast as School Teacher
- Daisy Pareja as Latina in Corridor
- Kevin Christenson as Gardena Cop #2
- Denis Yuryevich Orlov as Armored Guard
- Vincent Lee Alston as Armored Guard
- Stefanos Miltsakakis as Hofbrau Bouncer
- Scott Hunter as Armored Car Driver (uncredited)
- Steve Eifert as Bank Hostage (uncredited)
- Michael Papajohn as Bank Security Guard (uncredited)
- Raven Wynn as St. Paulie Waitress (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 166
Hover, tap or tab to a bar to see those scenes: where they happen and who's talking.
Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 to 16 | 13 | 27 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 63 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 79 |
| 25 to 28 | 1 | 22 |
| 29 to 32 | 2 | 8 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 15 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 7 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 8 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 6 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 17 |
| 53 to 56 | 1 | 39 |
| 57 to 60 | 4 | 8 |
| 61 to 64 | 0 | 6 |
| 65 to 68 | 0 | 4 |
| 69 to 72 | 0 | 25 |
| 73 to 76 | 2 | 32 |
| 77 to 80 | 1 | 13 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 9 |
| 85 to 88 | 2 | 3 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 5 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 5 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 13 |
| 101 to 104 | 1 | 48 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 6 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 9 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 13 |
| 117 to 120 | 0 | 7 |
| 121 to 124 | 3 | 14 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 21 |
| 129 to 132 | 1 | 1 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 0 |
| 137 to 140 | 4 | 6 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 2 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 10 |
| 149 to 152 | 0 | 8 |
| 153 to 156 | 0 | 13 |
| 157 to 160 | 0 | 17 |
| 161 to 164 | 1 | 20 |
| 165 to 166 | 0 | 4 |
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.
SHARON: What’s taking them so goddamn long? DORIS: Need to lose weight anyway, honey.
DORIS: What? Damn you’re finicky. SHARON: I wait almost 2 hours and when it finally comes it’s cold?! What kind of bullshit - COU-CHI: - ma’am! Ma’am. I sorry. I got no oder fom you today. No oder. You never call. SHARON: We never called?!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 5 are women's.
36 lines from women, 635 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
12 women and 51 men in the cast. 10 women and 34 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 42 of 704.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 172 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 5% of the words (344), men 95% (7,041).
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
2
Two men
64
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 17 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 16% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Christian Gudegast (man)
- Written by
- Christian Gudegast (man)
- Story by
- Christian Gudegast (man), Paul T. Scheuring (man)
- Produced by
- Mark Canton (man), Gerard Butler (man), Tony Grazia (man), Alan Siegel (man), Tucker Tooley (man)
- Shot by
- Terry Stacey (man)
- Edited by
- Joel Cox (man), David S. Cox (man), Nathan Godley (gender not listed)
- Music by
- Cliff Martinez (man)
- Production design by
- Kara Lindstrom (woman)
- Costumes by
- Terry Anderson (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- John Papsidera (man)
The crew, department by department
-
Art
1 women, 5 men, 25 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 6 men, 23 not listed
-
Production
6 women, 19 men, 1 non-binary, 3 not listed
-
Sound
1 women, 14 men, 12 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 7 men, 19 not listed
-
Other crew
5 women, 12 men, 8 not listed
-
Editing
0 women, 4 men, 5 not listed
-
Lighting
0 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Non-binary
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 51 on average. Men: 40 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Meadow Williams 51
Men
O'Shea Jackson Jr. 26, Kaiwi Lyman 34, Mo McRae 35, Pablo Schreiber 39, Evan Jones 41, 50 Cent 42, Maurice Compte 45, Gerard Butler 48, Brian Van Holt 48
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.7 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $80.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 166 scenes and 704 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
