Passes the Bechdel test
Emergency
2022. Directed by Carey Williams, written by K.D. Dávila.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 11 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 11 scenes out of 120. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.
- Released
- 27 May 2022
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 73 / 100
- Awards
- 3 wins & 9 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Sean 241 lines, man
- Kunle 229 lines, man
- Carlos 131 lines, man
- Maddy 75 lines, woman
- Alice 69 lines, woman
- Rafael 30 lines, man
- Goldilocks 20 lines, woman
- Officer Peterson 14 lines, man
- Terence 14 lines, man
- 911 Dispatcher 12 lines
Full cast, 20 people
- Donald Watkins as Kunle
- RJ Cyler as Sean
- Sebastian Chacon as Carlos
- Sabrina Carpenter as Maddy
- Maddie Nichols as Emma
- Madison Thompson as Alice
- Diego Abraham as Rafael
- Summer Madison as Asa
- Melanie Jeffcoat as Karen
- Patrick Lamont Jr. as Malik
- Robert Hamilton III as Terence
- Mike Forbs as Big Guy
- Adrian Lockett as Facial Tattoo Guy
- Nadine Lewington as Professor Clarke
- Parker Wierling as Drunk Guy
- Connor Hammond as Pledge
- John Paul Kakos as Frat Boy 1
- Callan Wilson as Frat Boy 2
- Luke Cross as Frat Boy 3 (uncredited)
- Gillian Rabin as Bianca
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 120
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 12 | 8 |
| 4 to 6 | 10 | 23 |
| 7 to 9 | 6 | 42 |
| 10 to 12 | 8 | 17 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 7 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 7 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 32 |
| 25 to 27 | 2 | 81 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 9 |
| 31 to 33 | 23 | 11 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 4 |
| 37 to 39 | 2 | 9 |
| 40 to 42 | 2 | 2 |
| 43 to 45 | 4 | 6 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 16 |
| 49 to 51 | 2 | 11 |
| 52 to 54 | 15 | 32 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 to 60 | 1 | 4 |
| 61 to 63 | 14 | 39 |
| 64 to 66 | 1 | 4 |
| 67 to 69 | 3 | 20 |
| 70 to 72 | 6 | 16 |
| 73 to 75 | 1 | 27 |
| 76 to 78 | 3 | 5 |
| 79 to 81 | 13 | 16 |
| 82 to 84 | 2 | 19 |
| 85 to 87 | 13 | 54 |
| 88 to 90 | 10 | 12 |
| 91 to 93 | 2 | 2 |
| 94 to 96 | 27 | 53 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 102 | 10 | 16 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 1 |
| 106 to 108 | 4 | 15 |
| 109 to 111 | 2 | 4 |
| 112 to 114 | 3 | 13 |
| 115 to 117 | 0 | 44 |
| 118 to 120 | 15 | 11 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
ALICE: Fuck you, don’t do that! MADDY: Have you seen Emma? ALICE: Not since we got here. MADDY: Can you see her from up there?
MADDY: I don’t really, like, know you? I just want to speak to my friend. ALICE: Just one sec, OK? Okay, do you remember where you last saw her? MADDY: She was playing beer pong with some people... I don't know. That was a while ago. ALICE: Like how long ago? Like what, half an hour?
MADDY: I think... we need to call the police. ALICE: You need to hydrate-- MADDY: We need to do something-- ALICE: Maddy. Drink the water. We're going to keep looking, okay?
MADDY: Ok, so she's ignoring me? How is that helpful? ALICE: Does she have an app like Find My Friend? We can track her.
MR. KAREN: What did you just say? MR. KAREN: What did you just say??? GOLDILOCKS: Racisssolllbiiitchh. Biiiiiitch!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 24 are women's.
216 lines from women, 695 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
7 women and 11 men in the cast. 11 women and 14 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 81 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 (1,993), men 77% (6,807). Women have 24% 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
23
Two men
76
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 45% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Carey Williams (man)
- Written by
- K.D. Dávila (woman)
- Produced by
- John Fischer (man), Isaac Klausner (man), Marty Bowen (man)
- Shot by
- Michael Dallatorre (man)
- Edited by
- Lam Nguyen (gender not listed)
- Music by
- René G. Boscio (man)
- Production design by
- Jeremy Woodward (man)
- Costumes by
- Icy White (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Kim Taylor-Coleman (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
5 women, 6 men, 1 not listed
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Art
1 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 1 men
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Camera
0 women, 1 men
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men
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Editing
0 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 22 on average. Men: 29 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Maddie Nichols 20, Madison Thompson 21, Summer Madison 22, Sabrina Carpenter 23
Men
RJ Cyler 27, Sebastian Chacon 28, Patrick Lamont Jr. 33
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 120 scenes and 942 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
