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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, written by Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale and Carlo Collodi.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    7 women characters. 10 of them speak.
  2. No 2. Who talk to each other
    Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
  3. 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.

Poster for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

The film

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This whimsical, stop-motion musical directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson follows the mischievous and disobedient adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world.

Released
09 Dec 2022
Genres
Animation, Adventure, Drama
Rated
PG
IMDb
7.6 / 10
Metascore
79 / 100
Awards
Won 1 Oscar. 80 wins & 135 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Pinocchio 233 lines, man
  2. Geppetto 187 lines, man
  3. Cricket 119 lines, man
  4. Count Volpe 88 lines, man
  5. Carlo 28 lines, man
  6. Candlewick 26 lines, man
  7. Death 21 lines, woman
  8. Spazzatura 14 lines, woman
  9. Wood Sprite 12 lines, woman
  10. Town Priest 10 lines, man
Full cast, 35 people
  • Ewan McGregor as Cricket (voice)
  • David Bradley as Geppetto (voice)
  • Gregory Mann as Pinocchio / Carlo (voice)
  • Burn Gorman as Priest (voice)
  • Ron Perlman as Podesta (voice)
  • John Turturro as Dottore (voice)
  • Finn Wolfhard as Candlewick (voice)
  • Cate Blanchett as Spazzatura (voice)
  • Tim Blake Nelson as Black Rabbits (voice)
  • Christoph Waltz as Count Volpe (voice)
  • Tilda Swinton as Wood Sprite / Death (voice)
  • Tom Kenny as Mussolini / Right Hand Man / Sea Captain (voice)
  • Alfie Tempest as Carlo / Pinocchio Additional Voices (voice)
  • Anthea Greco as Podesta's Wife / Twin Daughter 1 / Parishioner Woman (voice)
  • Francesca Fanti as Twin Daughter 2 / Old Woman / Street Sweep (voice)
  • Sandro Carotti as Fruit Vendor / Butcher (voice)
  • Rio Mangini as Milliner / Soldier / Carnival Worker (voice)
  • Benjamin Valic as Confident Boy / Laughing Boy (voice)
  • Sky Alexis as Young Girl (voice)
  • Ariana Molkara as Older Girl (voice)
  • Roy Halo as Young Boy (voice)
  • Luciano Palmeri as Barrel Man / Soldier / Carnival Worker (voice)
  • Peter Arpesella as Carnival Worker (voice)
  • Massimiliano Manfredi as Sebastian il grillo (voice - IT)
  • Bruno Alessandro as Geppetto (voice - IT)
  • Ciro Clarizio as Pinocchio (voice - IT), Carlo (voice - IT)
  • Fabrizio Vidale as Prete (voice - IT)
  • Mario Cordova as Podestà (voice - IT)
  • Pasquale Anselmo as Dottore (voice - IT)
  • Giulio Bartolomei as Lucignolo (voice - IT)
  • Tiziana Avarista as Spazzatura (voice - IT)
  • Luigi Ferraro as Conigli Neri (voice - IT)
  • Stefano Benassi as Conte Volpe (voice - IT)
  • Franca d'Amato as Spirito del Bosco (voice - IT), Morte (voice - IT)
  • Massimiliano Alto as Benito Mussolini (voice - IT)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 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 127

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 303
4 to 6025
7 to 907
10 to 12115
13 to 15022
16 to 1803
19 to 21014
22 to 2405
25 to 2701
28 to 30722
31 to 33058
34 to 361356
37 to 39033
40 to 4206
43 to 45028
46 to 48043
49 to 51225
52 to 54011
55 to 57037
58 to 60937
61 to 63022
64 to 6606
67 to 6909
70 to 7200
73 to 7501
76 to 7801
79 to 8100
82 to 8405
85 to 87015
88 to 901315
91 to 93011
94 to 96010
97 to 99617
100 to 102011
103 to 105045
106 to 108017
109 to 111031
112 to 11408
115 to 11705
118 to 120011
121 to 1231220
124 to 12605
127 to 12704

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, 8 are women's.

63 lines from women, 720 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

7 women and 22 men in the cast. 10 women and 22 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 43 of 831. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 146 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 9% of the words (654), men 91% (6,786). Women have 8% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 17 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Mark Gustafson (man), Guillermo del Toro (man)
Written by
Guillermo del Toro (man), Patrick McHale (man)
Produced by
Gary Ungar (gender not listed), Guillermo del Toro (man), Alexander Bulkley (man), Lisa Henson (woman), Corey Campodonico (man)
Shot by
Frank Passingham (man)
Edited by
Holly Klein (gender not listed), Ken Schretzmann (man)
Music by
Alexandre Desplat (man)
Production design by
Karla Castañeda (woman), Guy Davis (man), Curt Enderle (gender not listed)
Cast by
Mary Hidalgo (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Visual Effects

    2 women, 12 men, 44 not listed

  • Art

    3 women, 2 men, 14 not listed

  • Writing

    2 women, 10 men, 4 not listed

  • Production

    6 women, 4 men, 3 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 8 men

  • Directing

    0 women, 2 men, 6 not listed

  • Other crew

    0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed

  • Editing

    0 women, 1 men, 3 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 53 on average. Men: 52 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Cate Blanchett 53

Men

Gregory Mann 13, Finn Wolfhard 19, Burn Gorman 48, Ewan McGregor 51, Tim Blake Nelson 58, John Turturro 65, Christoph Waltz 66, Ron Perlman 72, David Bradley 80

Exhibit G: the money

What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.

Budget
$35 million
Box office
Not listed

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 127 scenes and 831 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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