Fails the Bechdel test
Evolution
2001. Directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Don Jakoby and David Diamond and David Weissman.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
8 women characters. 0 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
When a meteorite falls to Earth two college professors, Dr. Ira Kane and Prof. Harry Phineas Block, are assigned the job of checking the site out. At the site, they discover organisms not of this planet. Soon the site is taken over by the government, forcing Ira and Harry to the side. As the new life-forms begin to evolve and start to get more and more dangerous, it's up to the two professors to save the planet.
- Released
- 08 Jun 2001
- Genres
- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 40 / 100
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Bridges 195 lines, man
- Maggie 95 lines, woman
- Alex 86 lines, man
- Booker 62 lines, man
- Decker 60 lines, man
- Robinson 56 lines, man
- Moyers 34 lines, man
- Zack 19 lines
- Alvins 15 lines
- Levin 15 lines, man
Full cast, 28 people
- David Duchovny as Dr. Ira Kane
- Julianne Moore as Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
- Orlando Jones as Prof. Harry Phineas Block
- Seann William Scott as Wayne Grey
- Ted Levine as General Russell Woodman
- Ty Burrell as Colonel Flemming
- Ethan Suplee as Deke
- Michael Bower as Danny
- Dan Aykroyd as Governor Lewis
- Gregory Itzin as Cartwright
- Pat Kilbane as Officer Johnson
- Sarah Silverman as Denise
- Michelle Wolff as Carla
- Katharine Towne as Nadine
- Stephanie Hodge as Jill Mason
- John Cho as Student
- Steven Gilborn as Judge Guilder
- Wayne Duvall as Dr. Paulson
- Kyle Gass as Officer Drake
- Jerry Trainor as Tommy
- Jennifer Savidge as Clare
- Wendy Braun as Nurse Tate
- Michael Chapman as Sheriff Long
- Mary Pat Gleason as Customer
- Andrew Bowen as Road Worker
- Chris Wylde as Student
- Tom Woodruff Jr. as Lead Primate Creature (uncredited)
- Ashley Clark as Lt. Cryer
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 114
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 to 12 | 6 | 25 |
| 13 to 15 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 to 18 | 3 | 28 |
| 19 to 21 | 3 | 9 |
| 22 to 24 | 1 | 8 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 3 |
| 28 to 30 | 12 | 46 |
| 31 to 33 | 2 | 36 |
| 34 to 36 | 1 | 1 |
| 37 to 39 | 7 | 23 |
| 40 to 42 | 2 | 13 |
| 43 to 45 | 10 | 52 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 14 |
| 49 to 51 | 12 | 27 |
| 52 to 54 | 2 | 9 |
| 55 to 57 | 2 | 39 |
| 58 to 60 | 3 | 25 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 3 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 5 |
| 67 to 69 | 1 | 30 |
| 70 to 72 | 7 | 4 |
| 73 to 75 | 2 | 17 |
| 76 to 78 | 3 | 17 |
| 79 to 81 | 1 | 1 |
| 82 to 84 | 1 | 25 |
| 85 to 87 | 3 | 21 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 7 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 7 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 1 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 3 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 1 |
| 103 to 105 | 1 | 13 |
| 106 to 108 | 4 | 8 |
| 109 to 111 | 3 | 2 |
| 112 to 114 | 3 | 2 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 15 are women's.
96 lines from women, 531 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
8 women and 19 men in the cast. 0 women and 0 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 18 of 749.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 49 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 13% of the words (990), men 87% (6,763). Women have 15% 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
0
Two men
71
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 26% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Ivan Reitman (man)
- Written by
- David Diamond (man), David Weissman (man), Don Jakoby (man)
- Produced by
- Daniel Goldberg (man), Joe Medjuck (man), Ivan Reitman (man)
- Shot by
- Michael Chapman (man)
- Edited by
- Wendy Greene Bricmont (woman), Sheldon Kahn (man)
- Music by
- John Powell (man)
- Production design by
- J. Michael Riva (man)
- Costumes by
- Aggie Guerard Rodgers (woman)
- Cast by
- Margery Simkin (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Other crew
9 women, 22 men, 22 not listed
-
Sound
5 women, 22 men, 10 not listed
-
Production
3 women, 10 men, 19 not listed
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Art
5 women, 8 men, 11 not listed
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Visual Effects
2 women, 9 men, 11 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 3 men, 10 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 6 men, 8 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 40 on average. Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Julianne Moore 40
Men
Seann William Scott 24, Ethan Suplee 25, Michael Bower 26, Orlando Jones 33, Ty Burrell 33, David Duchovny 40, Ted Levine 44, Dan Aykroyd 48, Gregory Itzin 53
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $80 million
- Box office
- $98.4 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 114 scenes and 749 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
