Passes the Bechdel test
Hugo
2011. Directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan and Brian Selznick.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
6 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 105. -
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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.
The film
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle, which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is a mechanical man that doesn't work. Hugo needs to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets a shopkeeper who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking goddaughter Isabelle. Hugo and Isabelle try to unlock the old man's memories.
- Released
- 23 Nov 2011
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 7.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 83 / 100
- Awards
- Won 5 Oscars. 61 wins & 194 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Hugo 179 lines, man
- Isabelle 144 lines, woman
- Georges 63 lines, man
- Mama Jeanne 30 lines, woman
- Station Inspector 24 lines, man
- Etienne 23 lines
- Monsieur Labisse 12 lines, man
- Tabard 8 lines, man
- Hugo'S Father 7 lines, man
- Receptionist 5 lines
Full cast, 42 people
- Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret
- Ben Kingsley as Georges Méliès
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Isabelle
- Sacha Baron Cohen as Station Inspector
- Ray Winstone as Uncle Claude
- Emily Mortimer as Lisette
- Christopher Lee as Monsieur Labisse
- Helen McCrory as Mama Jeanne
- Michael Stuhlbarg as René Tabard
- Frances de la Tour as Madame Emilie
- Richard Griffiths as Monsieur Frick
- Jude Law as Hugo's Father
- Kevin Eldon as Policeman
- Gulliver McGrath as Young Tabard
- Shaun Aylward as Street Kid
- Emil Lager as Django Reinhardt
- Angus Barnett as Theatre Manager
- Edmund Kingsley as Camera Technician
- Max Wrottesley as Train Engineer
- Marco Aponte as Train Engineer Assistant
- Ilona Cheshire as Café Waitress
- Francesca Scorsese as Child at Café
- Emily Surgent as Child at Café
- Lily Carlson as Child at Café
- Frederick Warder as Arabian Knight
- Christos Lawton as Arabian Knight
- Tomos James as Arabian Knight
- Ed Sanders as Young Tabard's Brother
- Terence Frisch as Circus Barker
- Max Cane as Circus Barker
- Frank Bourke as Gendarme
- Stephen Box as Gendarme
- Ben Addis as Salvador Dali
- Robert Gill as James Joyce
- Graham Curry as Railway Porteur 71 (uncredited)
- Eric Haldezos as Policeman (uncredited)
- Hugo Malpeyre as Theater Guest (uncredited)
- Gino Picciano as Worker (uncredited)
- Michael Pitt as Projectionist (uncredited)
- Martin Scorsese as Photographer (uncredited)
- Brian Selznick as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Catherine Balavage as Girl in Cafe (uncredited)
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 105
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 to 18 | 9 | 7 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 12 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 4 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 4 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 6 |
| 34 to 36 | 24 | 23 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 19 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 3 |
| 43 to 45 | 11 | 11 |
| 46 to 48 | 2 | 3 |
| 49 to 51 | 7 | 10 |
| 52 to 54 | 33 | 32 |
| 55 to 57 | 30 | 16 |
| 58 to 60 | 2 | 19 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 9 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 1 |
| 67 to 69 | 4 | 5 |
| 70 to 72 | 16 | 24 |
| 73 to 75 | 3 | 3 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 1 |
| 79 to 81 | 23 | 24 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 3 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 3 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 3 |
| 91 to 93 | 3 | 21 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 4 | 10 |
| 100 to 102 | 3 | 0 |
| 103 to 105 | 3 | 6 |
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.
MAMA JEANNE: What's going on, Isabelle? ISABELLE: Oh, well, it's a terribly long story, filled with circumlocutions! It all began several weeks ago when I was ••.
MAMA JEANNE: Children ••• What have you done? ISABELLE: Maroa Jeanne ••• ? MAMA JEANNE: Where did you get it?
ISABELLE: Please, Mama Jeanne ••• ISABELLE: An actress! A cinema actress! It's so romantic! MAMA JEANNE: It wasn't like that. We weren't movie stars like they have now .•. But we did have fun.
ISABELLE: Mama Jeanne ••• it's you! MAMA JEANNE: Yes •.•
MAMA JEANNE: We tinted the film ••• Painted it by hand. ISABELLE: You were so beautiful.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 37 are women's.
177 lines from women, 306 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
6 women and 29 men in the cast. 3 women and 10 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 25 of 512.
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 32% of the words (1,513), men 68% (3,272). Women have 37% 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
12
Two men
23
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
- Martin Scorsese (man)
- Written by
- John Logan (man)
- Produced by
- Johnny Depp (man), Martin Scorsese (man), Graham King (man), Tim Headington (man)
- Shot by
- Robert Richardson (man)
- Edited by
- Thelma Schoonmaker (woman)
- Music by
- Howard Shore (man)
- Production design by
- Dante Ferretti (man)
- Costumes by
- Sandy Powell (woman)
- Cast by
- Ellen Lewis (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Sound
4 women, 13 men, 1 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
9 women, 2 men, 5 not listed
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Production
6 women, 8 men, 1 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 9 men, 5 not listed
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Other crew
2 women, 9 men, 3 not listed
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Art
1 women, 8 men
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Directing
1 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 41 on average. Men: 51 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Chloë Grace Moretz 14, Emily Mortimer 40, Helen McCrory 43, Frances de la Tour 67
Men
Asa Butterfield 14, Sacha Baron Cohen 40, Michael Stuhlbarg 43, Ray Winstone 54, Ben Kingsley 67, Christopher Lee 89
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $170 million
- Box office
- $186 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 105 scenes and 512 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
