Fails the Bechdel test
Frozen
2010. Directed by Adam Green, written by Adam Green.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
2 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
At Mount Holliston, snowboarders Dan Walker, his girlfriend Parker O'Neil and his best friend Joe Lynch don't have enough money to buy lift tickets. Parker bribes Jason, a lift-worker, with one hundred dollars. When the system is nearing closure, they force Jason to let them have one last pass. However, Jason needs to resolve a problem and his colleague misunderstands his instructions and stops the lift. The trio of skier and snowboarders gets stranded on the chairlift near the top of the mountain. When they see that the lights of the ski resort had been turned off, they need to make a choice: leave the chairlift or freeze to death.
- Released
- 25 Mar 2010
- Genres
- Adventure, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 43 / 100
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Lynch 233 lines, man
- Parker 207 lines, woman
- Dan 139 lines, man
- Shannon 16 lines, woman
- Jason 14 lines, man
- Rifkin 5 lines, man
- Driver 4 lines
- Voice 4 lines
- Ryan 3 lines
- Steve 2 lines, man
Full cast, 10 people
- Emma Bell as Parker O'Neil
- Shawn Ashmore as Joe Lynch
- Kevin Zegers as Dan Walker
- Ed Ackerman as Jason
- Rileah Vanderbilt as Shannon
- Kane Hodder as Cody
- Adam Johnson as Rifkin
- Chris York as Ryan
- Peder Melhuse as Driver
- Joe Lynch as Guy on Chairlift #2 (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 96
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 to 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 7 to 8 | 16 | 35 |
| 9 to 10 | 13 | 13 |
| 11 to 12 | 15 | 23 |
| 13 to 14 | 3 | 18 |
| 15 to 16 | 4 | 15 |
| 17 to 18 | 2 | 1 |
| 19 to 20 | 2 | 5 |
| 21 to 22 | 20 | 51 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 to 28 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 to 30 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 to 32 | 1 | 2 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 1 |
| 35 to 36 | 1 | 1 |
| 37 to 38 | 1 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 11 | 34 |
| 41 to 42 | 5 | 7 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 2 |
| 45 to 46 | 0 | 2 |
| 47 to 48 | 2 | 6 |
| 49 to 50 | 2 | 4 |
| 51 to 52 | 6 | 16 |
| 53 to 54 | 4 | 7 |
| 55 to 56 | 0 | 3 |
| 57 to 58 | 2 | 9 |
| 59 to 60 | 2 | 3 |
| 61 to 62 | 2 | 4 |
| 63 to 64 | 8 | 17 |
| 65 to 66 | 0 | 2 |
| 67 to 68 | 13 | 14 |
| 69 to 70 | 7 | 7 |
| 71 to 72 | 14 | 13 |
| 73 to 74 | 2 | 3 |
| 75 to 76 | 5 | 5 |
| 77 to 78 | 35 | 33 |
| 79 to 80 | 2 | 1 |
| 81 to 82 | 2 | 1 |
| 83 to 84 | 0 | 2 |
| 85 to 86 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 to 88 | 2 | 0 |
| 89 to 90 | 1 | 0 |
| 91 to 92 | 1 | 0 |
| 93 to 94 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
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, 36 are women's.
223 lines from women, 394 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
2 women and 6 men in the cast. 2 women and 5 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 3 of 630.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 15 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 29% of the words (1,501), men 71% (3,656). Women have 36% 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
1
Two men
58
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 8 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Adam Green (man)
- Written by
- Adam Green (man)
- Produced by
- Peter Block (man), Cory Neal (man)
- Shot by
- Will Barratt (man)
- Production design by
- Bryan McBrien (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Barbara Nelson (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Nancy Nayor (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
3 women, 8 men, 3 not listed
-
Other crew
1 women, 5 men, 4 not listed
-
Sound
1 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
0 women, 0 men, 4 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
-
Lighting
0 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 27 on average. Men: 35 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Emma Bell 23, Rileah Vanderbilt 30
Men
Kevin Zegers 25, Shawn Ashmore 30, Ed Ackerman 32, Joe Lynch 33, Adam Johnson 36, Kane Hodder 54
Exhibit G: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- Not listed
- Box office
- $3.1 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 96 scenes and 630 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
