Fails the Bechdel test
Frankenstein's Army
2013. Directed by Richard Raaphorst, written by Richard Raaphorst and Miguel Tejada-Flores and Chris W. Mitchell.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
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
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.
- Released
- 18 May 2013
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 49 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Dimitri 175 lines, man
- Sergei 102 lines, man
- Vassili 78 lines, man
- Viktor 51 lines, man
- Sacha 33 lines, man
- Ivan 29 lines, man
- Igor 27 lines, man
- Sgt. Novak 26 lines, man
- Eva 16 lines, woman
- Hans 10 lines, man
Full cast, 10 people
- Karel Roden as Viktor
- Joshua Sasse as Sergei
- Robert Gwilym as Novikov
- Alexander Terentyev as Dimitri
- Luke Newberry as Sacha
- Hon Ping Tang as Ivan
- Andrei Zayats as Vassili
- Mark Stevenson as Alexei
- Cristina Catalina as Eva
- Jan de Lukowicz as Fritz
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, 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 47
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 3 | 0 | 27 |
| 4 to 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 to 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 6 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 7 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 to 8 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 to 9 | 0 | 12 |
| 10 to 10 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 to 11 | 0 | 5 |
| 12 to 12 | 0 | 9 |
| 13 to 13 | 0 | 5 |
| 14 to 14 | 0 | 16 |
| 15 to 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 to 16 | 0 | 7 |
| 17 to 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 18 to 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 to 19 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 to 20 | 0 | 19 |
| 21 to 21 | 0 | 9 |
| 22 to 22 | 0 | 22 |
| 23 to 23 | 0 | 30 |
| 24 to 24 | 0 | 10 |
| 25 to 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 to 26 | 0 | 25 |
| 27 to 27 | 0 | 4 |
| 28 to 28 | 8 | 33 |
| 29 to 29 | 5 | 5 |
| 30 to 30 | 3 | 25 |
| 31 to 31 | 0 | 39 |
| 32 to 32 | 0 | 7 |
| 33 to 33 | 0 | 13 |
| 34 to 34 | 0 | 11 |
| 35 to 35 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 to 36 | 0 | 27 |
| 37 to 37 | 0 | 3 |
| 38 to 38 | 0 | 1 |
| 39 to 39 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 to 40 | 0 | 3 |
| 41 to 41 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 to 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 to 43 | 0 | 18 |
| 44 to 44 | 0 | 4 |
| 45 to 45 | 0 | 27 |
| 46 to 46 | 0 | 35 |
| 47 to 47 | 0 | 35 |
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, 3 are women's.
16 lines from women, 537 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
1 women and 7 men in the cast. 1 women and 7 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 281 of 572.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 280 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 4% of the words (200), men 96% (5,384). Women have 3% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
36
Exhibit E: behind the camera
None of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 10% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Richard Raaphorst (man)
- Written by
- Chris W. Mitchell (gender not listed), Miguel Tejada-Flores (man)
- Story by
- Miguel Tejada-Flores (man), Richard Raaphorst (man)
- Produced by
- Nate Bolotin (gender not listed), Todd Brown (gender not listed), Nick Spicer (man), Richard Raaphorst (man), Greg Newman (gender not listed), Aram Tertzakian (man) and 2 more
- Shot by
- Bart Beekman (man)
- Edited by
- Jasper Verhorevoort (gender not listed)
- Production design by
- Jindřich Kočí (man)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
0 women, 3 men, 5 not listed
-
Writing
1 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 1 men
-
Camera
0 women, 1 men
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men
-
Editing
0 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Men: 35 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Men
Luke Newberry 22, Joshua Sasse 25, Alexander Terentyev 29, Andrei Zayats 29, Hon Ping Tang 36, Karel Roden 50, Robert Gwilym 57
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 47 scenes and 572 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
