Passes the Bechdel test
Gamer
2009. Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
18 women characters. 8 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 160. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
Ken Castle is extremely rich, popular, and powerful since he invented and started exploiting the virtual online parallel reality games. In these games, people can either pay to be a user or get paid to be an 'actor' in a system of mind-control. In the ultimate version, Slayers, death row convicts act as gladiators in a desperate dim bid for survival, which no one has achieved yet. The champion, John 'Kable' Tillman, is scheduled to die just before he'd gain release, but he persuades his teenage 'handler' to hand over the reins so he can fully use his talents and experience. Kable escapes to freedom, but Castle's men chase him. Kable has to fight his way back to Castle's headquarters to challenge his hidden evil plans.
- Released
- 04 Sep 2009
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 27 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Kable 104 lines, man
- Simon 71 lines, man
- Ken Castle 52 lines, man
- Humanz Brother 37 lines, man
- Gina Parker Smith 31 lines, woman
- Trace 22 lines, woman
- Humanz Dude 19 lines, man
- Hackman 15 lines, man
- Woman 14 lines, woman
- Voice 12 lines
Full cast, 52 people
- Gerard Butler as Kable
- Amber Valletta as Angie
- Michael C. Hall as Ken Castle
- Kyra Sedgwick as Gina Parker Smith
- Logan Lerman as Simon
- Alison Lohman as Trace
- Terry Crews as Hackman
- Ramsey Moore as Gorge
- Ludacris as Humanz Brother
- Johnny Whitworth as Scotch
- Dylan Kenin as Train Guard
- James Roday Rodriguez as News Co-Host #1
- Milo Ventimiglia as Rick Rape
- Aaron Yoo as Humanz Dude
- John Leguizamo as Freek
- Zoë Bell as Sandra
- Ashley Rickards as 2Katchapredator
- Brighid Fleming as Delia
- Nikita Ramsey as Kumdumpsta #1
- Jade Ramsey as Kumdumpsta #2
- Mimi Michaels as Stikkimuffin
- Sadie Alexandru as Society Victim
- David Scott Rubin as Lab Tech
- Michael Weston as Producer
- Noel Gugliemi as Upgrade Guard
- Keith David as Agent Keith
- Maggie Lawson as Female News Host #1
- Antoinette Antonio as Female News Host #2
- Donnie Smith as News Co-Host #2
- Sam Witwer as Caseworker
- Lloyd Kaufman as Genericon
- Jonathan Chase as Geek Leader
- Dan Callahan as Backup Geek
- Keith Jardine as Mean Slayer
- Joseph D. Reitman as Board Op
- John de Lancie as Chief Of Staff
- Jarvis W. George as Brown Soldier #1
- Jai Stefan as Brown Soldier #2
- Eidan Hanzei as Razorblade
- Med Abrous as Pig Face Ron
- Efren Ramirez as DJ
- Stephanie Mace as Geek Girl
- Hayley Derryberry as Raver
- Yvette Fazio-Delaney as Society Victim
- Richard Machowicz as Blue Soldier #1
- Ken Smith as Lifer
- Rebekah Tarin as Dale
- Kate Mulligan as Sorority Chick
- Ariana Scott as Sissypuss Shelley
- Cynthia Robertson as Porn Girl
- Adam Loeb as Ben Richard
- Fred Loeb as Society Concierge
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 160
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 to 12 | 5 | 9 |
| 13 to 16 | 6 | 7 |
| 17 to 20 | 9 | 15 |
| 21 to 24 | 2 | 9 |
| 25 to 28 | 7 | 11 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 to 44 | 1 | 2 |
| 45 to 48 | 7 | 19 |
| 49 to 52 | 1 | 7 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 30 |
| 57 to 60 | 0 | 34 |
| 61 to 64 | 0 | 5 |
| 65 to 68 | 0 | 17 |
| 69 to 72 | 0 | 12 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 7 |
| 77 to 80 | 5 | 32 |
| 81 to 84 | 7 | 14 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 10 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 2 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 1 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 0 |
| 101 to 104 | 1 | 6 |
| 105 to 108 | 5 | 2 |
| 109 to 112 | 7 | 44 |
| 113 to 116 | 3 | 12 |
| 117 to 120 | 0 | 3 |
| 121 to 124 | 0 | 2 |
| 125 to 128 | 2 | 2 |
| 129 to 132 | 6 | 23 |
| 133 to 136 | 2 | 7 |
| 137 to 140 | 1 | 10 |
| 141 to 144 | 10 | 9 |
| 145 to 148 | 1 | 4 |
| 149 to 152 | 0 | 24 |
| 153 to 156 | 0 | 20 |
| 157 to 160 | 4 | 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.
GINA PARKER SMITH: Fuck that. I'd make you cut it out of me. TRACE: That would be like cutting out part of your brain. TRACE: The nanocells replace the cells they replicate... they become you.
ANGIE: I couldn't stop them. TRACE: Nobody could. TRACE: Your daughter was taken into foster care by the state two years ago. TRACE: The foster parent paid good money to remain anonymous... to make sure the girl would be untraceable. But there's always a data trail, if you…
TRACE: This is for you, you dumb bitch. I hope you do the right thing with it. GINA PARKER SMITH: Oh, baby...
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 18 are women's.
95 lines from women, 432 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
18 women and 32 men in the cast. 8 women and 27 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 581.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 120 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 18% of the words (906), men 82% (4,236).
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
4
Two men
42
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 18 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Mark Neveldine (man), Brian Taylor (man)
- Written by
- Mark Neveldine (man), Brian Taylor (man)
- Produced by
- Gary Lucchesi (man), Tom Rosenberg (man), Skip Williamson (man), Richard S. Wright (man)
- Shot by
- Ekkehart Pollack (man)
- Edited by
- Peter Amundson (man), Fernando Villena (man), Doobie White (man)
- Music by
- Geoff Zanelli (man), Robb Williamson (gender not listed)
- Production design by
- Jerry Fleming (man)
- Costumes by
- Alix Friedberg (woman)
- Cast by
- J.C. Cantu (man), Mary Vernieu (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
3 women, 48 men, 19 not listed
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Sound
4 women, 18 men, 8 not listed
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Production
4 women, 13 men, 9 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
11 women, 0 men, 10 not listed
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Art
1 women, 8 men, 6 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 3 men, 10 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 5 men, 5 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 36 on average. Men: 33 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Alison Lohman 29, Amber Valletta 35, Kyra Sedgwick 44
Men
Logan Lerman 17, Ludacris 31, Johnny Whitworth 33, Michael C. Hall 38, Gerard Butler 39, Terry Crews 41
Exhibit H: the money
It made 82% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $40.8 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 160 scenes and 581 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
