Passes the Bechdel test
Hellboy
2019. Directed by Neil Marshall, written by Andrew Cosby and Mike Mignola.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
21 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 95. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
Hellboy is a supernatural being who is the son of a fallen angel. He came to our world in 1944 as a result of a mystical ritual. The Occultists of the Third Reich had long tried to gain an advantage in the war, hoping to attract the ideal soldier to the ranks of the fascist army. Hellboy was exactly the one they needed, but they never managed to make their plans a reality. The demon from hell fell into the hands of Americans and began to serve them, protecting the world from mysterious threats. This time he is sent to England to meet face to face with Merlin's wife. Just a battle with the Blood Queen will lead to the end of the world, which the monster tried to avoid all his life.
- Released
- 12 Apr 2019
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 31 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 8 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Hellboy 287 lines, man
- Daimio 111 lines, man
- Alice 79 lines, woman
- Abe Sapien 77 lines, man
- Blood Queen 62 lines, woman
- Broom 50 lines, man
- Myrddin 28 lines, man
- Gruagach 27 lines, man
- Lord Glaren 24 lines, man
- Baba Yaga 16 lines
Full cast, 56 people
- David Harbour as Hellboy / Anung Un Rama
- Milla Jovovich as Vivienne Nimue, the Blood Queen
- Ian McShane as Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
- Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan
- Daniel Dae Kim as Ben Daimio
- Thomas Haden Church as Lobster Johnson
- Stephen Graham as Gruagach (voice)
- Douglas Tait as Gruagach
- Sophie Okonedo as Lady Hatton
- Alistair Petrie as Lord Adam Glaren
- Brian Gleeson as Merlin
- Penelope Mitchell as Ganeida
- Mark Stanley as Arthur
- Emma Tate as Baba Yaga (voice)
- Troy James as Baba Yaga
- Mario de la Rosa as Esteban Ruiz / Camazotz
- Ava Brennan as Alice's Mother
- Anthony Delaney as Alice's Father
- Atanas Srebrev as Agent Madison
- Dawn Sherrer as Agent Strode
- Markos Rounthwaite as Grigori Rasputin
- Ilko Iliev as Professor Doctor Karl Ruprecht Kroenen
- Joel Harlow as Von Krupt
- Dimiter Banenkin as Leopold Kurtz
- Vanessa Eichholz as Ilsa Hepstein
- Nadya Keranova as Sister #1
- Maria Tepavicharova as Sister #2
- Ana Tabakova as Sister #3
- Terry Randal as Priest
- Christopher Mata as Referee
- Michael Heath as Butler
- Rick Warden as Dr. Edwin Carp
- Nitin Ganatra as August Swain
- Kristina Klebe as Leni Riefenstahl
- Charles Shannon as Sgt. Whitman
- Carl Hampe as Sir Malcom Frost
- Tony van Silva as Abbot
- Josh Finan as Novice
- Jonathan Steele as Huntsman
- Simon Feek as M-11 Operative
- Jasmine Audoux-Prevot as Baby Alice
- Meglena Karalambova as Leprous Hag #1
- Anna Bankina as Leprous Hag #2
- Rut Rafailova as Leprous Hag #3
- Laila Morse as Mrs. Harker
- Peter Oxley as Gunsmith
- Nikolay Stanoev as Monk
- Manal El-Feitury as Mother
- Elizabeth Mehari Kahsai as Child in Parking Lot #1
- Said Barry Abdulai as Child in Parking Lot #2
- Katya Peneva as Sarah Bethany Hughes
- Natasha Kaplinsky as Anchorwoman
- Valentin Stojanov as Man #1
- Victor Rangelov as Man #2
- Vasil Tsvetkov as Man #3
- Joshua Samuel Hector as Man #4
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 95
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 to 4 | 11 | 2 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 12 |
| 11 to 12 | 0 | 4 |
| 13 to 14 | 0 | 12 |
| 15 to 16 | 0 | 20 |
| 17 to 18 | 0 | 14 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 9 |
| 23 to 24 | 6 | 13 |
| 25 to 26 | 4 | 8 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 6 |
| 29 to 30 | 0 | 18 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 7 |
| 33 to 34 | 10 | 9 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 19 |
| 37 to 38 | 11 | 52 |
| 39 to 40 | 3 | 11 |
| 41 to 42 | 14 | 24 |
| 43 to 44 | 5 | 11 |
| 45 to 46 | 2 | 18 |
| 47 to 48 | 6 | 4 |
| 49 to 50 | 1 | 13 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 6 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 7 |
| 55 to 56 | 3 | 8 |
| 57 to 58 | 6 | 22 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 16 |
| 61 to 62 | 0 | 13 |
| 63 to 64 | 4 | 11 |
| 65 to 66 | 3 | 8 |
| 67 to 68 | 15 | 30 |
| 69 to 70 | 3 | 11 |
| 71 to 72 | 18 | 30 |
| 73 to 74 | 0 | 5 |
| 75 to 76 | 3 | 32 |
| 77 to 78 | 0 | 22 |
| 79 to 80 | 0 | 7 |
| 81 to 82 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 to 84 | 4 | 24 |
| 85 to 86 | 2 | 8 |
| 87 to 88 | 0 | 5 |
| 89 to 90 | 3 | 1 |
| 91 to 92 | 22 | 44 |
| 93 to 94 | 8 | 20 |
| 95 to 95 | 3 | 10 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
BLOOD QUEEN: You! You led them here? GANEIDA: I had no choice. This war between our kind and theirs must end. So I have brokered a truce. BLOOD QUEEN: In exchange for what?
LADY HATTON: She’s here. BLOOD QUEEN: Fools. You should know better than to play with dead things.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 21 are women's.
170 lines from women, 633 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
21 women and 35 men in the cast. 5 women and 12 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 861.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 105 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 25% of the words (2,067), men 75% (6,250). Women have 21% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
4
Two men
84
Exhibit F: behind the camera
None of the 15 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Neil Marshall (man)
- Written by
- Andrew Cosby (man)
- Produced by
- Lloyd Levin (man), Lawrence Gordon (man), Mike Richardson (man), Carl Hampe (man), Matthew O'Toole (man), Philip Westgren (man) and 2 more
- Shot by
- Lorenzo Senatore (man)
- Edited by
- Martin Bernfeld (man)
- Music by
- Benjamin Wallfisch (man)
- Production design by
- Paul Kirby (man)
- Cast by
- Dan Hubbard (man)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
4 women, 23 men, 31 not listed
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Visual Effects
3 women, 9 men, 32 not listed
-
Production
2 women, 17 men, 6 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 3 men, 15 not listed
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Sound
2 women, 9 men, 8 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 13 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 2 men, 10 not listed
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Art
1 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 39 on average. Men: 52 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Sasha Lane 23, Milla Jovovich 43, Sophie Okonedo 50
Men
Douglas Tait 40, David Harbour 44, Stephen Graham 45, Alistair Petrie 48, Daniel Dae Kim 50, Thomas Haden Church 58, Ian McShane 76
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $55.1 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 95 scenes and 861 lines of dialogue. How the test works
