Fails the Bechdel test
Initiation
2016. Directed by Oren Benamor, written by Dan Benamor and Oren Benamor.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
Five strangers are taken hostage and forced to fight to the death as a form of initiation into a bizarre, violent brotherhood.
- Genres
- Thriller
- Rated
- TV-MA
- IMDb
- 4.5 / 10
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Simon 112 lines, man
- Marok 109 lines, man
- Dale 72 lines, man
- Staff Sergeant Raynor 72 lines, man
- Wayne 45 lines, man
- Denny 42 lines, man
- Plebe Red 35 lines, man
- Eric 24 lines, man
- Rob 24 lines, man
- Plebe Orange 15 lines, man
Full cast, 11 people
- Adam Ryan Rennie as Simon
- Dan Horton as Marok
- David Terrell as Staff Sergeant Raynor
- John Winscher as Dale
- Hunter Smit as Denny
- Denell Johnson as Wayne
- Jonathan Cahill as Plebe Red
- Eric Mindel as Eric
- Mike Kopera as Plebe Green
- Jim Poole as Recruit #2
- Evan Schwartz as Evans
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 99
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 5 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 35 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 31 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 22 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 39 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 9 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 37 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 41 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 29 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 35 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 43 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 12 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 8 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 20 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 24 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 47 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 20 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 21 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 13 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 20 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 11 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 9 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 3 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 17 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 11 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 20 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 7 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 6 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 3 |
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, 0 are women's.
0 lines from women, 598 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
0 women and 7 men in the cast. 0 women and 13 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
No woman speaks.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 611 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 0% of the words (0), men 100% (5,475).
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
Two women
0
Two men
45
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 9 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Oren Benamor (man)
- Written by
- Oren Benamor (man), Dan Benamor (gender not listed)
- Produced by
- Jon Shaivitz (gender not listed), Mike Kopera (man)
- Shot by
- Rick Craft (man)
- Edited by
- Oren Benamor (man)
- Production design by
- Allison Fry (woman)
- Costumes by
- Jessica Huerta (gender not listed)
The crew, department by department
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
-
Sound
0 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
-
Production
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
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Writing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Men
Denell Johnson 36
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 99 scenes and 611 lines of dialogue. How the test works
