Fails the Bechdel test
Gladiator II
2024. Directed by Ridley Scott, written by David Scarpa and Peter Craig and David Franzoni.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
10 women characters. 4 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
Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla and Geta. As tensions mount, an enslaved Numidian leader arrives in the city as a gladiator, putting allegiances to the test. No one knows who he is, but with sinister schemes threatening the Republic, can this humble defender restore Rome to its former glory?
- Released
- 22 Nov 2024
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 64 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 113 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Lucius 140 lines, man
- Macrinus 135 lines, man
- Lucilla 76 lines, woman
- Geta 65 lines, man
- Caracalla 59 lines, man
- Acacius 38 lines, man
- Fortuna 29 lines
- Ravi 26 lines, man
- Master Of Ceremonies 24 lines, man
- Viggo 24 lines, man
Full cast, 50 people
- Paul Mescal as Lucius
- Denzel Washington as Macrinus
- Pedro Pascal as General Acacius
- Connie Nielsen as Lucilla
- Joseph Quinn as Emperor Geta
- Fred Hechinger as Emperor Caracalla
- Lior Raz as Viggo
- Derek Jacobi as Gracchus
- Peter Mensah as Jugurtha
- Matt Lucas as Master of Ceremonies
- Alexander Karim as Ravi
- Yuval Gonen as Arishat
- Richard McCabe as Quaestor
- Tim McInnerny as Senator Thraex
- Alec Utgoff as Darius
- Rory McCann as General Tegula
- Yann Gaël as Bostar
- Riana Duce as Hyacinthia
- Alfie Tempest as Young Lucius
- Amira Ghazalla as Leta | Lucilla's Servant
- Abdelmoula Ait Sidi Lhassan as Boy (Numidia)
- Mouaiz El Outmany as Boy (Numidia)
- Brahim Assagour as Boy (Numidia)
- Alexander Simkin as Centurion (Branding)
- Richard Katz as Governor (Baboon Arena)
- David Ganly as Master of Ceremonies (Baboon Arena)
- Anton Saliba as Praetorian (Lucilla's)
- Amal Ayouch as Noble Bedouin Woman
- Hadrian Howard as Agedilios
- Chidi Ajufo as Gladiator
- Lee Charles as Slovak
- Chris Hallaways as Glyceo
- Chi Lewis-Parry as Phoebus
- Ángel Gómez de la Torre as Gnaeus
- Brahim Ait Ben Azzouz as Centurion (Lucius' Arrest)
- Maxime Rauf Ruijselaar as Centurion (Ostia)
- Sana El Baghdady as Wailing Woman
- Nadia El Masnaoui as Wailing Woman
- Nisrine Machat as Wailing Woman
- Maud Oulhen as Female Concubine
- Estelle Courret as Female Concubine
- Line Ancel as Female Concubine
- Sixtine Gignoux as Female Concubine
- Igor Badnjar as Male Concubine
- Romi Debart as Male Concubine
- Arnaud Préchac as Male Concubine
- Tom Moutchi as Brennos
- Dean Fagan as Dorso
- May Calamawy as Macrinus' Companion (uncredited)
- Peter Winfield as Roman Senator / General Acasius (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 6% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 150
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 2 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 13 |
| 29 to 32 | 2 | 17 |
| 33 to 36 | 1 | 13 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 20 |
| 41 to 44 | 14 | 28 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 59 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 17 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 to 60 | 5 | 14 |
| 61 to 64 | 2 | 26 |
| 65 to 68 | 5 | 68 |
| 69 to 72 | 7 | 4 |
| 73 to 76 | 10 | 18 |
| 77 to 80 | 0 | 30 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 13 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 9 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 6 |
| 93 to 96 | 18 | 12 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 12 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 19 |
| 105 to 108 | 3 | 32 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 22 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 19 |
| 117 to 120 | 9 | 37 |
| 121 to 124 | 0 | 0 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 6 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 7 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 4 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 6 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 16 |
| 145 to 148 | 4 | 6 |
| 149 to 150 | 0 | 10 |
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, 12 are women's.
82 lines from women, 591 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
10 women and 29 men in the cast. 4 women and 21 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 89 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 10% of the words (740), men 90% (6,604). Women have 12% 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
73
Exhibit E: behind the camera
4 of the 17 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Ridley Scott (man)
- Written by
- David Scarpa (man)
- Story by
- Peter Craig (man), David Scarpa (man)
- Produced by
- Michael Pruss (man), David Franzoni (man), Douglas Wick (man), Lucy Fisher (woman), Ridley Scott (man)
- Shot by
- John Mathieson (man)
- Edited by
- Claire Simpson (woman), Sam Restivo (man)
- Music by
- Harry Gregson-Williams (man)
- Production design by
- Arthur Max (man)
- Costumes by
- Janty Yates (woman), David Crossman (man)
- Cast by
- Kate Rhodes James (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
7 women, 46 men, 49 not listed
-
Art
6 women, 8 men, 46 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
5 women, 3 men, 25 not listed
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Production
7 women, 11 men, 15 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 6 men, 18 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 7 men, 14 not listed
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Visual Effects
2 women, 9 men, 9 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 4 men, 12 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 59 on average. Men: 50 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Connie Nielsen 59
Men
Fred Hechinger 24, Paul Mescal 28, Joseph Quinn 30, Pedro Pascal 49, Matt Lucas 50, Lior Raz 52, Peter Mensah 65, Denzel Washington 69, Derek Jacobi 86
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.5 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $310 million
- Box office
- $462 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 150 scenes and 715 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
