Fails the Bechdel test
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, written by Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
19 women characters. 6 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
Having already crossed two names from her Death List, the Bride resumes her quest for justice, taking aim at Budd and Elle Driver, the only survivors from the squad of assassins who betrayed her four years earlier. It's all leading up to the ultimate confrontation with Bill The Bride's former master and the man who ordered her execution.
- Released
- 16 Apr 2004
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 8 / 10
- Metascore
- 83 / 100
- Awards
- 23 wins & 84 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Bill 156 lines, man
- The Bride 114 lines, woman
- Budd 61 lines, man
- Pai Mei 51 lines, man
- Elle 45 lines, woman
- Josephina 8 lines
- Karen 8 lines, woman
- Alburt 6 lines, man
- Mommy 6 lines, woman
- Ex Cu 5 lines
Full cast, 64 people
- Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo / The Bride / 'Black Mamba' / Mommy
- David Carradine as Bill 'Snake Charmer'
- Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver 'California Mountain Snake'
- Michael Madsen as Budd 'Sidewinder'
- Gordon Liu Chia-hui as Johnny Mo / Pai Mei
- Michael Parks as Earl McGraw / Esteban Vihaio
- Perla Haney-Jardine as B.B.
- Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green 'Copperhead'
- Ambrosia Kelley as Nikki
- James Parks as Edgar McGraw
- Jonathan Loughran as Trucker
- Michael Bowen as Buck
- Kenji Ohba as Bald Guy
- Yoshiyuki Morishita as Tokyo Businessman
- Jun Kunimura as Boss Tanaka
- Goro Daimon as Boss Honda
- Kazuki Kitamura as Boss Koji / Crazy 88
- Akaji Maro as Boss Ozawah
- Shun Sugata as Boss Benta
- Sachiko Fujii as The 5, 6, 7, 8's
- Yoshiko Yamaguchi as The 5, 6, 7, 8's
- Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama as The 5, 6, 7, 8's
- Sakichi Sato as Charlie Brown
- Tetsuro Shimaguchi as Crazy 88
- Yoji Tanaka as Crazy 88
- So Yamanaka as Crazy 88
- Issey Takahashi as Crazy 88
- Juri Manase as Crazy 88
- Chiaki Kuriyama as Gogo
- Yuki Kazamatsuri as Proprietor
- Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii 'Cottonmouth'
- Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo
- Julie Dreyfus as Sofie Fatale
- Bo Svenson as Reverend Harmony
- Jeannie Epper as Mrs. Harmony
- Stephanie L. Moore as Joleen
- Shana Stein as Erica
- Caitlin Keats as Janeen
- Christopher Allen Nelson as Tommy Plympton
- Samuel L. Jackson as Rufus
- Reda Beebe as Lucky
- Sid Haig as Jay
- Larry Bishop as Larry Gomez
- Laura Cayouette as Rocket
- Clark Middleton as Ernie
- Claire Smithies as Clarita
- Helen Kim as Karen
- Victoria Lucai as Trixie
- Venessia Valentino as 1st Grade Teacher
- Thea Rose as Melanie Harrhouse
- William Paul Clark as Soda Jerk
- Stevo Polyi as Tim
- Al Manuel Douglas as Marty Kitrosser
- Patricia Silva as Hooker #1
- Maria Del Rosario Gutierrez as Hooker #2
- Sonia Angelica Padilla Curiel as Hooker #3
- Veronica Janet Martinez as Hooker #4
- Lucia Cruz Marroquin as Hooker #5
- Citlati Guadalupe Bojorquez as Hooker #6
- Graciela Salazar Mendoza as Hooker #7
- Maria de Lourdes Lombera as Hooker #8
- Jorge Silva as Bartender / Pimp
- Lawrence Bender as Hotel clerk (uncredited)
- Quentin Tarantino as Director's voice (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 47
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 to 2 | 1 | 34 |
| 3 to 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 to 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 to 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 to 7 | 0 | 31 |
| 8 to 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 to 9 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 to 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 to 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 to 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 to 13 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 to 14 | 16 | 16 |
| 15 to 15 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 to 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 to 17 | 4 | 0 |
| 18 to 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 to 19 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 to 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 to 21 | 2 | 4 |
| 22 to 22 | 4 | 7 |
| 23 to 23 | 2 | 2 |
| 24 to 24 | 16 | 37 |
| 25 to 25 | 2 | 2 |
| 26 to 26 | 0 | 2 |
| 27 to 27 | 2 | 3 |
| 28 to 28 | 3 | 7 |
| 29 to 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 to 30 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 to 31 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 to 32 | 22 | 12 |
| 33 to 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 to 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 to 35 | 22 | 0 |
| 36 to 36 | 2 | 5 |
| 37 to 37 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 to 38 | 0 | 1 |
| 39 to 39 | 20 | 21 |
| 40 to 40 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 to 41 | 2 | 1 |
| 42 to 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 43 to 43 | 11 | 17 |
| 44 to 44 | 2 | 21 |
| 45 to 45 | 39 | 25 |
| 46 to 46 | 3 | 4 |
| 47 to 47 | 0 | 0 |
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, 39 are women's.
179 lines from women, 281 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
19 women and 30 men in the cast. 6 women and 6 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 8 of 505.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 44 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 31% of the words (1,949), men 69% (4,280). Women have 39% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
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
4
Exhibit E: behind the camera
5 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 30% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Quentin Tarantino (man)
- Written by
- Quentin Tarantino (man)
- Produced by
- Lawrence Bender (man)
- Shot by
- Robert Richardson (man)
- Edited by
- Sally Menke (woman)
- Music by
- Robert Rodriguez (man), RZA (man)
- Production design by
- Yohei Taneda (man), David Wasco (man), Cao Juiping (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Catherine Marie Thomas (woman), Kumiko Ogawa (woman)
- Cast by
- Johanna Ray (woman), Koko Maeda (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
6 women, 15 men, 19 not listed
-
Production
7 women, 8 men, 18 not listed
-
Sound
2 women, 20 men, 9 not listed
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Art
1 women, 13 men, 14 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
6 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
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Camera
2 women, 4 men, 5 not listed
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Editing
4 women, 0 men, 4 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 26 on average. Men: 53 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Perla Haney-Jardine 6, Ambrosia Kelley 8, Uma Thurman 33, Vivica A. Fox 39, Daryl Hannah 43
Men
James Parks 35, Michael Madsen 46, Gordon Liu Chia-hui 52, Michael Parks 63, David Carradine 67
Exhibit G: the money
It made 5.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $152 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 47 scenes and 505 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
