Passes the Bechdel test
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021. Directed by Navot Papushado, written by Navot Papushado and Ehud Lavski.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
11 women characters. 10 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 18 scenes out of 85. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Scarlet was cruelly forced to abandon her daughter Sam and go on the run. Years later, despite the estrangement, Sam has also grown up into a cold blooded hitwoman. After a high-stake mission spins out of control, putting an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed, Sam has no choice but to go rogue. This ultimately leads her back to her mother and her former hitwomen sidekicks, who all join forces in an avenging war against those who took everything from them.
- Released
- 14 Jul 2021
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 47 / 100
- Awards
- 5 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Eva 285 lines, woman
- Scarlet 111 lines, woman
- Emily 65 lines, woman
- Nathan 54 lines, man
- Anna May 35 lines, woman
- Ricky 25 lines, man
- Bong 23 lines
- Yankee 22 lines, man
- Florence 15 lines, woman
- Madeleine 15 lines, woman
Full cast, 29 people
- Karen Gillan as Sam
- Lena Headey as Scarlet
- Chloe Coleman as Emily
- Carla Gugino as Madeleine
- Michelle Yeoh as Florence
- Angela Bassett as Anna May
- Paul Giamatti as Nathan
- Ralph Ineson as Jim McAlester
- Adam Nagaitis as Virgil
- Michael Smiley as Dr. Ricky
- Joanna Bobin as Rose
- Freya Allan as Young Sam
- Ed Birch as Lead Russian Thug
- David Zimmerschied as Factory Goon
- Samuel Anderson as David
- Mai Duong Kieu as Nurse
- Jack Bandeira as Crow
- David Burnell IV as Shocker
- Ivan Kaye as Yankee
- Anita Olatunji as Nathan's Assistant
- Matthias Dittmer as Firm Oldest Vulture
- Joshua Grothe as Dracula
- Hannes Pastor as Frankenstein
- Billy Buff as The Mummy
- Lee Huang as Wolfman
- Luka Omoto as Older Diner Waitress
- Jonathan Failla as Nathan's Fancy House Thug
- Mike Möller as Thug (uncredited)
- Maik Müller as Thug 3 (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 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 85
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 35 | 4 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 23 | 20 |
| 7 to 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 44 | 4 |
| 11 to 12 | 6 | 10 |
| 13 to 14 | 3 | 5 |
| 15 to 16 | 2 | 0 |
| 17 to 18 | 10 | 13 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 7 |
| 21 to 22 | 2 | 0 |
| 23 to 24 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 6 | 4 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 2 |
| 29 to 30 | 4 | 5 |
| 31 to 32 | 8 | 0 |
| 33 to 34 | 13 | 12 |
| 35 to 36 | 8 | 12 |
| 37 to 38 | 2 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 15 | 17 |
| 41 to 42 | 4 | 3 |
| 43 to 44 | 4 | 1 |
| 45 to 46 | 11 | 19 |
| 47 to 48 | 13 | 0 |
| 49 to 50 | 24 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 23 | 0 |
| 53 to 54 | 2 | 0 |
| 55 to 56 | 13 | 0 |
| 57 to 58 | 12 | 1 |
| 59 to 60 | 27 | 1 |
| 61 to 62 | 21 | 0 |
| 63 to 64 | 9 | 1 |
| 65 to 66 | 54 | 0 |
| 67 to 68 | 0 | 1 |
| 69 to 70 | 16 | 0 |
| 71 to 72 | 19 | 0 |
| 73 to 74 | 30 | 0 |
| 75 to 76 | 35 | 8 |
| 77 to 78 | 1 | 0 |
| 79 to 80 | 19 | 0 |
| 81 to 82 | 15 | 0 |
| 83 to 84 | 3 | 5 |
| 85 to 85 | 1 | 0 |
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.
ROSE: I put in an extra scoop for my favorite client. EVA: Thanks, Rose. ROSE: I’m sure she won’t be long. EVA: You clearly don’t know my mother very well.
EVA: Go kiss a pig. SCARLET: Close your eyes, baby girl. EVA: Mom, stop! EVA: Stop!
ROSE: Evening, sugar. Can I lighten your load? EVA: Yes, of course. ROSE: Sit anywhere, sweetie. I’ll bring you your usual. ROSE: An extra scoop for my favorite client.
MADELEINE: Hello dear, what can I do you for? EVA: I need to exchange some books. MADELEINE: Well, that’s nice. Not a lot of people your age read these days. Do you have a card with us? EVA: No. But I’d like to open one.
MADELEINE: Anna may, this lovely young lady wants to open a card with us. ANNA MAY: Well, Madeleine should have known we don’t take new readers without a reference. MADELEINE: I had a hunch. ANNA MAY: Fudge your hunches, if you pardon my french. Florence dear, will you join us?
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 78 are women's.
547 lines from women, 155 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
11 women and 17 men in the cast. 10 women and 9 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 15 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 75% of the words (4,019), men 25% (1,375). Women have 78% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
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
38
Two men
5
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Navot Papushado (man)
- Written by
- Ehud Lavski (gender not listed), Navot Papushado (man)
- Produced by
- Andrew Rona (man), Alex Heineman (man)
- Shot by
- Michael Seresin (man)
- Edited by
- Nicolas De Toth (man)
- Music by
- Frank Ilfman (man)
- Production design by
- David Scheunemann (man)
- Costumes by
- Louise Frogley (woman)
- Cast by
- Raylin Sabo (woman), Mary Vernieu (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
10 women, 31 men, 72 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 11 men, 67 not listed
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Sound
3 women, 20 men, 30 not listed
-
Production
12 women, 12 men, 20 not listed
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Art
2 women, 9 men, 23 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
8 women, 0 men, 11 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 11 not listed
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Editing
2 women, 2 men, 8 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 44 on average. Men: 50 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Chloe Coleman 12, Karen Gillan 33, Lena Headey 47, Carla Gugino 49, Michelle Yeoh 58, Angela Bassett 62
Men
Adam Nagaitis 36, Ralph Ineson 51, Paul Giamatti 54, Michael Smiley 58
Exhibit H: the money
It made 3% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $1 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 85 scenes and 748 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
