Fails the Bechdel test
It
2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti, written by Chase Palmer and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
15 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
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
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing one by one. In a place known as 'The Barrens', a group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with an evil clown and their determination to kill It.
- Released
- 08 Sep 2017
- Genres
- Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 69 / 100
- Awards
- 13 wins & 49 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Will 167 lines, man
- Richie 93 lines, man
- Beverly 86 lines, woman
- Eddie 86 lines, man
- Ben 65 lines, man
- Mike 52 lines, man
- Travis 43 lines, man
- Stan 41 lines, man
- Mr. Marsh 26 lines, man
- Leroy 25 lines, man
Full cast, 47 people
- Jaeden Martell as Bill Denbrough
- Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom
- Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh
- Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier
- Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hanlon
- Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kaspbrak
- Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Uris
- Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise
- Nicholas Hamilton as Henry Bowers
- Jake Sim as Belch Huggins
- Logan Thompson as Victor Criss
- Owen Teague as Patrick Hockstetter
- Jackson Robert Scott as Georgie Denbrough
- Stephen Bogaert as Mr. Marsh
- Stuart Hughes as Officer Bowers
- Geoffrey Pounsett as Zach Denbrough
- Pip Dwyer as Sharon Denbrough
- Molly Atkinson as Sonia Kaspbrak
- Steven Williams as Leroy Hanlon
- Elizabeth Saunders as Mrs. Starret
- Megan Charpentier as Gretta
- Joe Bostick as Mr. Keene
- Ari Cohen as Rabbi Uris
- Anthony Ulc as Joe the Butcher
- Javier Botet as Hobo
- Katie Lunman as Betty Ripsom
- Carter Musselman as Headless Boy
- Tatum Lee as Judith
- Edie Inksetter as Hostess
- Martha Gibson as Old Woman
- Kasie Rayner as Field Hockey Girl #1
- Isabelle Nélisse as Girl in Bathroom
- Jocelyn Mattka as Another Girl
- Donald Tripe as Old Man in Car
- Liz Gordon as Old Woman in Car
- Paige Rosamond as Dead Girl #1
- Neil Crone as Chief Borton
- Sonia Gascón as Mrs. Ripsom
- Janet Porter as Stanley's Mother
- Memo Díaz Capt. as 4th of July Clown
- Chantal Vachon as Girl in Magazine
- Roberto Campanella as Organ Player Clown
- David Katzenberg as El Aparato (uncredited)
- Bobby Leigh as Jonathan (uncredited)
- Kate Moyer as Esther (uncredited)
- Jimmy Star as Man in Car (uncredited)
- Kelly Van der Burg as Abigail (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 192
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 18 |
| 13 to 16 | 12 | 40 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 7 |
| 21 to 24 | 6 | 12 |
| 25 to 28 | 14 | 12 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 2 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 45 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 6 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 7 |
| 49 to 52 | 4 | 19 |
| 53 to 56 | 3 | 32 |
| 57 to 60 | 6 | 12 |
| 61 to 64 | 6 | 9 |
| 65 to 68 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 to 72 | 0 | 7 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 15 |
| 77 to 80 | 3 | 44 |
| 81 to 84 | 9 | 32 |
| 85 to 88 | 2 | 6 |
| 89 to 92 | 4 | 21 |
| 93 to 96 | 1 | 20 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 0 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 7 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 11 |
| 109 to 112 | 6 | 30 |
| 113 to 116 | 2 | 26 |
| 117 to 120 | 2 | 10 |
| 121 to 124 | 2 | 20 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 4 |
| 129 to 132 | 3 | 3 |
| 133 to 136 | 1 | 9 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 11 |
| 141 to 144 | 8 | 9 |
| 145 to 148 | 6 | 30 |
| 149 to 152 | 0 | 0 |
| 153 to 156 | 4 | 28 |
| 157 to 160 | 21 | 37 |
| 161 to 164 | 2 | 21 |
| 165 to 168 | 0 | 20 |
| 169 to 172 | 2 | 15 |
| 173 to 176 | 1 | 18 |
| 177 to 180 | 5 | 58 |
| 181 to 184 | 1 | 2 |
| 185 to 188 | 2 | 3 |
| 189 to 192 | 3 | 6 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 16 are women's.
141 lines from women, 759 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
15 women and 26 men in the cast. 5 women and 27 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 54 of 932.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 84 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 16% of the words (1,205), men 84% (6,487).
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
108
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 17 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Andy Muschietti (man)
- Written by
- Cary Joji Fukunaga (man), Chase Palmer (man), Gary Dauberman (man)
- From the novel by
- Stephen King (man)
- Produced by
- Seth Grahame-Smith (man), David Katzenberg (man), Roy Lee (man), Dan Lin (man), Barbara Muschietti (woman)
- Shot by
- Chung Chung-hoon (man)
- Edited by
- Jason Ballantine (man)
- Music by
- Benjamin Wallfisch (man)
- Production design by
- Claude Paré (man)
- Costumes by
- Janie Bryant (woman)
- Cast by
- Rich Delia (man), Stephanie Gorin (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
6 women, 16 men, 13 not listed
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Art
1 women, 10 men, 22 not listed
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Sound
4 women, 21 men, 5 not listed
-
Production
3 women, 12 men, 1 non-binary, 5 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 6 men, 7 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 7 men, 8 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 5 men, 4 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Non-binary
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 15 on average. Men: 16 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Sophia Lillis 15
Men
Jaeden Martell 14, Jeremy Ray Taylor 14, Finn Wolfhard 14, Jack Dylan Grazer 14, Wyatt Oleff 14, Chosen Jacobs 16, Nicholas Hamilton 17, Jake Sim 18, Bill Skarsgård 27
Exhibit G: the money
It made 20.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $35 million
- Box office
- $720 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 192 scenes and 932 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
