Passes the Bechdel test
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019. Directed by Dean DeBlois, written by Dean DeBlois and Cressida Cowell.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 6 scenes out of 58. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.
The film
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless' discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup's reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.
- Released
- 22 Feb 2019
- Genres
- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 7.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 71 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 66 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Hiccup 232 lines, man
- Astrid 68 lines, woman
- Grimmel 57 lines, man
- Gobber 52 lines, man
- Tuffnut 47 lines, man
- Snotlout 41 lines, man
- Ruffnut 39 lines, woman
- Valka 29 lines, woman
- Fishlegs 25 lines, man
- Eret 14 lines, man
Full cast, 21 people
- Jay Baruchel as Hiccup (voice)
- America Ferrera as Astrid (voice)
- F. Murray Abraham as Grimmel (voice)
- Cate Blanchett as Valka (voice)
- Gerard Butler as Stoick (voice)
- Craig Ferguson as Gobber (voice)
- Jonah Hill as Snotlout (voice)
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs (voice)
- Kristen Wiig as Ruffnut (voice)
- Kit Harington as Eret (voice)
- Justin Rupple as Tuffnut (voice)
- Robin Atkin Downes as Ack (voice)
- Kieron Elliott as Hoark (voice)
- Julia Emelin as Griselda the Grevious (voice)
- Gideon Emery as Trapper (voice)
- Ashley Jensen as Phlegma (voice)
- AJ Kane as Young Hiccup (voice)
- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Ragnar the Rock (voice)
- James Sie as Chaghatai Khan (voice)
- David Tennant as Spitelout / Ivar the Whitless (voice)
- Randy Thom as Toothless (voice)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 58
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 13 | 43 |
| 3 to 4 | 13 | 49 |
| 5 to 6 | 1 | 34 |
| 7 to 8 | 16 | 27 |
| 9 to 10 | 4 | 39 |
| 11 to 12 | 2 | 36 |
| 13 to 14 | 5 | 21 |
| 15 to 16 | 1 | 8 |
| 17 to 18 | 2 | 11 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 3 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 3 |
| 25 to 26 | 7 | 37 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 1 |
| 29 to 30 | 3 | 18 |
| 31 to 32 | 2 | 0 |
| 33 to 34 | 10 | 43 |
| 35 to 36 | 24 | 21 |
| 37 to 38 | 7 | 9 |
| 39 to 40 | 8 | 17 |
| 41 to 42 | 10 | 22 |
| 43 to 44 | 3 | 5 |
| 45 to 46 | 3 | 27 |
| 47 to 48 | 1 | 11 |
| 49 to 50 | 0 | 2 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 3 |
| 53 to 54 | 3 | 18 |
| 55 to 56 | 1 | 4 |
| 57 to 58 | 4 | 12 |
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.
RUFFNUT: Hah! Look at this weirdo. Bet it’s super dumb. RUFFNUT: Ugh! Why can’t I get this cage open?! ASTRID: It slides. RUFFNUT: Psh. Obviously.
ASTRID: Look out! ASTRID: Thanks, Stormfly! VALKA: Oh, stop worrying. They’ll get it. VALKA: Eventually.
ASTRID: Well, we could train a lot harder, for one. That was pretty sloppy. VALKA: Astrid does have a point. Perhaps you all rely a little bit too much on your dragons... and not enough on one another.
ASTRID: The Light Fury! VALKA: She’s following us!
ASTRID: Split up! VALKA: Up here! VALKA: Hurry!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 21 are women's.
143 lines from women, 525 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 16 men in the cast. 6 women and 20 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 18 of 673.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 42 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 21% of the words (1,248), men 79% (4,774).
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
9
Two men
63
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 8 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Dean DeBlois (man)
- Written by
- Dean DeBlois (man)
- Produced by
- Bonnie Arnold (woman), Bradford Lewis (man)
- Shot by
- Gil Zimmerman (man)
- Edited by
- John K. Carr (man)
- Music by
- John Powell (man)
- Production design by
- Pierre-Olivier Vincent (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
1 women, 9 men, 9 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 5 men, 7 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 6 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 2 men
-
Other crew
0 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
2 women, 1 men
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Writing
1 women, 2 men
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Camera
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 43 on average. Men: 45 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
America Ferrera 34, Kristen Wiig 45, Cate Blanchett 49
Men
Christopher Mintz-Plasse 29, Kit Harington 32, Jonah Hill 35, Jay Baruchel 36, Gerard Butler 49, Craig Ferguson 56, F. Murray Abraham 79
Exhibit H: the money
It made 4.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $129 million
- Box office
- $540 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 58 scenes and 673 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
