Fails the Bechdel test

Ghost Rider

Name: Ghost Rider
Released: 2007

2007. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson, written by Mark Steven Johnson.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
4 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 0 out of 3.

The film

When the motorcyclist Johnny Blaze finds that his father Barton Blaze has terminal cancer, he accepts a pact with Mephistopheles, giving his soul for the health of his beloved father. But the devil deceives him, and Barton dies in a motorcycle accident during an exhibition. Johnny leaves the carnival, his town, his friends, and his girlfriend Roxanne. Many years later, Johnny Blaze becomes a famous motorcyclist, who risks his life in his shows, and he meets Roxanne again, now a television reporter. However, Mephistopheles proposes Johnny to release his contract if he become the "Ghost Rider" and defeat his evil son Blackheart, who wants to possess one thousand evil souls and transform hell on Earth.

Released: 16 Feb 2007
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 5.3 / 10
Metascore: 35 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 11 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Blaze 143 lines, man
Nomi 80 lines
Carrigan 39 lines
Starke 29 lines, man
Rhymer 27 lines, man
Rain 26 lines
Petrowsky 16 lines, man
Roxanne 16 lines, woman
Rodenburg 14 lines, man
Tolbein 14 lines, man

Full cast, 27 people

Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider
Eva Mendes as Roxanne Simpson
Sam Elliott as Carter Slade / Phantom Rider
Wes Bentley as Blackheart / Black King
Peter Fonda as Mephistopheles / Mephisto
Matt Long as Young Johnny Blaze
Brett Cullen as Barton Blaze
Raquel Alessi as Young Roxanne Simpson
Donal Logue as Mack
Tony Ghosthawk as Team Blaze
Hugh Sexton as Team Blaze
Marcus Jones as Team Blaze
Lawrence Cameron Steele as X Games Announcer
Eddie Baroo as Motorcycle Gang Member
Jessica Napier as Broken Spoke Waitress
Rebel Wilson as Goth Girl in Alley
Daniel Frederiksen as Wallow
Mathew Wilkinson as Abigor
David Roberts as Captain Dolan
Matt Norman as Team Blaze
Peter Barry as The Mugger
Peter Callan as Station Master
Duncan Young as Skinhead
Ryan Johnson as Waiter
Gibson Nolte as Stuart
Joel Tobeck as Redneck
Laurence Breuls as Gressil

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 43% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 163

Hover, tap or tab to a bar to see those scenes: where they happen and who's talking.

Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	4
5 to 8	10	25
9 to 12	3	4
13 to 16	2	5
17 to 20	0	9
21 to 24	0	0
25 to 28	0	0
29 to 32	0	0
33 to 36	0	5
37 to 40	0	16
41 to 44	0	42
45 to 48	0	4
49 to 52	0	27
53 to 56	0	5
57 to 60	2	5
61 to 64	1	20
65 to 68	0	1
69 to 72	0	6
73 to 76	0	7
77 to 80	0	2
81 to 84	0	3
85 to 88	0	3
89 to 92	0	2
93 to 96	0	5
97 to 100	0	0
101 to 104	0	5
105 to 108	0	5
109 to 112	0	0
113 to 116	0	1
117 to 120	0	2
121 to 124	3	24
125 to 128	0	23
129 to 132	0	0
133 to 136	0	2
137 to 140	0	21
141 to 144	0	3
145 to 148	0	3
149 to 152	0	1
153 to 156	0	1
157 to 160	0	0
161 to 163	0	13

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 6 are women's.

21 lines from women, 304 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

4 women and 19 men in the cast. 2 women and 6 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 26 of 571. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 218 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 6% of the words (340), men 94% (5,286).

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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

4 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson (man)
Written by: Mark Steven Johnson (man)
Produced by: Avi Arad (man), Michael De Luca (man), Gary Foster (man), Steven Paul (man)
Shot by: Russell Boyd (man)
Edited by: Richard Francis-Bruce (man)
Music by: Christopher Young (man)
Production design by: Kirk M. Petruccelli (man)
Costumes by: Lizzy Gardiner (woman)
Cast by: Juel Bestrop (woman), Christine King (woman), Jeanne McCarthy (woman)