Fails the Bechdel test
Fury
2014. Directed by David Ayer, written by David Ayer.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 2 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
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
In April 1945, as the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened Army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a five-man Sherman tank crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to defend a field hospital from Waffen SS troops.
- Released
- 17 Oct 2014
- Genres
- Action, Drama, War
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.6 / 10
- Metascore
- 64 / 100
- Awards
- 6 wins & 24 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Wardaddy 301 lines, man
- Norman 85 lines, man
- Coon-Ass 81 lines, man
- Gordo 63 lines, man
- Bible 54 lines, man
- Sgt. Davis 12 lines, man
- Lt. Parker 11 lines, man
- Captain Waggoner 9 lines, man
- Sgt. Binkowski 8 lines, man
- Irma 7 lines, woman
Full cast, 51 people
- Brad Pitt as Don 'Wardaddy' Collier
- Shia LaBeouf as Boyd 'Bible' Swan
- Logan Lerman as Norman Ellison
- Michael Peña as Trini 'Gordo' Garcia
- Jon Bernthal as Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis
- Jim Parrack as Sergeant Binkowski
- Brad William Henke as Sergeant Davis
- Kevin Vance as Sergeant Peterson
- Xavier Samuel as Lieutenant Parker
- Jason Isaacs as Captain Waggoner
- Anamaria Marinca as Irma
- Alicia von Rittberg as Emma
- Scott Eastwood as Sergeant Miles
- Laurence Spellman as Sergeant Dillard
- Daniel Betts as Burgermeister
- Adam Ganne as SS Lieutenant
- Eric Kofi Abrefa as Company Messenger
- Osi Okerafor as Benton
- John Macmillan as Corporal
- Saul Barrett as Young SS Trouper
- Marek Oravec as SS Officer
- Kyle Soller as Medic #1
- Jake Curran as Medic #2
- Jack Bannon as Young Tanker
- Branko Tomović as German Corporal
- Orion Lee as Tired GI #1
- Vivien Bridson as Old Woman
- Christian Contreras as Outpost Sentry
- Stella Stocker as Widowed Woman
- Jacob Vonhendial as Son
- Lukas Rolfe as Hitler Youth #1
- Leon Rolfe as Hitler Youth #2
- Harry Hancock as Hitler Youth #3
- Daniel Dorr as Lt Obersturmfuhrer Schmidt
- Bernhard Forcher as Sturmbannfuhrer Muller
- Edin Gali as Sgt Hauptscharfuhrer Wolfe
- Jaime FitzSimons as SS Sniper
- Chris Wright as Praying Soldier
- Charlie Rotheram as Tank Commander 'Fury'
- Nick Beattie as Tank Commander 'Matador'
- Jimmy Carroll as Tank Commander 'Old Phyllis'
- Chip Dale as Tank Commander 'Lucy Sue'
- Dickon Leigh-Wood as Tank Commander 'Murder Inc'
- Hugh Vere Nicoll as 50 Cal Gunner 'Murder Inc'
- Xander Rawlins as Tank Crew
- Marlon Blue as US Soldier (uncredited)
- Jamie B. Chambers as Pvt James (uncredited)
- Zach Avery as SS Medic (uncredited)
- Eugenia Kuzmina as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
- Paul Gorvin as SS Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Philip Harvey as SS Soldier
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 111
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 42 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 91 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 29 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 5 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 21 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 16 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 39 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 10 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 10 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 15 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 6 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 32 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 9 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 4 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 1 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 12 |
| 49 to 51 | 1 | 9 |
| 52 to 54 | 4 | 15 |
| 55 to 57 | 2 | 20 |
| 58 to 60 | 2 | 35 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 10 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 35 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 11 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 9 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 14 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 7 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 14 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 11 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 7 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 7 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 34 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 3 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 27 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 26 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 20 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 1 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 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, 1 are women's.
9 lines from women, 659 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
5 women and 33 men in the cast. 2 women and 25 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 361 of 678.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 360 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 1% of the words (47), men 99% (7,308).
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
66
Exhibit E: behind the camera
6 of the 17 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- David Ayer (man)
- Written by
- David Ayer (man)
- Produced by
- Ethan Smith (man), John Lesher (man), Bill Block (man), David Ayer (man)
- Shot by
- Roman Vasyanov (man)
- Edited by
- Jay Cassidy (man), Dody Dorn (woman)
- Music by
- Steven Price (man)
- Production design by
- Andrew Menzies (man)
- Costumes by
- Maja Meschede (woman), Anna B. Sheppard (woman), Owen Thornton (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Mary Vernieu (woman), Lucy Bevan (woman), Lindsay Graham Ahanonu (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
4 women, 14 men, 10 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 3 men, 12 not listed
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Production
4 women, 8 men, 3 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 13 men, 2 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 7 men, 3 not listed
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Art
1 women, 6 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 3 men, 4 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Men
Logan Lerman 22, Shia LaBeouf 28, Xavier Samuel 30, Jim Parrack 33, Michael Peña 38, Jon Bernthal 38, Brad William Henke 48, Brad Pitt 50, Jason Isaacs 51
Exhibit G: the money
It made 3.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $68 million
- Box office
- $212 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 111 scenes and 678 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
