Passes the Bechdel test
Lucy
2014. Directed by Luc Besson, written by Luc Besson.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 31. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
It was supposed to be a simple job. All Lucy had to do was deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But immediately Lucy is caught up in a nightmarish deal where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach leaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that begins to unlock her mind's full potential. With her new-found powers, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. She receives invaluable help from Professor Norman, the leading authority on the human mind, and French police captain Pierre Del Rio.
- Released
- 25 Jul 2014
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 62 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 13 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Lucy 207 lines, woman
- Professornorman 42 lines
- Del Rio 33 lines, man
- Richard 23 lines, man
- Professor Norman 19 lines, man
- Caroline 18 lines, woman
- Concierge 15 lines, man
- Phone Voice 12 lines
- Surgeon 11 lines, man
- Delrio 9 lines
Full cast, 59 people
- Scarlett Johansson as Lucy
- Morgan Freeman as Professor Norman
- Choi Min-sik as Mr. Jang
- Amr Waked as Pierre Del Rio
- Julian Rhind-Tutt as The Limey
- Pilou Asbæk as Richard
- Lio Tipton as Caroline
- Shin Yoo-ram as Jang's Lieutenant
- Seo Chong-ju as Jang's Lieutenant
- Nicolas Phongpheth as Jii
- Paul Lefèvre as French Mule
- Jan Oliver Schroeder as German Mule
- Luca Angeletti as Italian Mule
- Pierre Poirot as Professor
- Pierre Grammont as Professor
- Bertrand Quoniam as Professor
- Loïc Brabant as Professor
- Pascal Loison as Drug Addict
- Pierre Gérard as Airport Doctor
- Isabelle Cagnat as Airport Nurse
- Frédéric Chau as Cabin Manager
- Claire Tran as Flight Attendant
- François Legrand as Business Man Plane
- Bob Martet as Customs Officer
- Cédric Chevalme as Cop Daniel
- Alexis Rangheard as Cop Robert
- Tonio Descanvelle as Cop Sergeant
- Julien Personnaz as Cop
- Christophe Lavalle as Cop
- Renaud Cestre as Student
- Thibault Segouin as Student
- Matthew Bravais as Student
- Claire Zaniolo as Student
- Alessandro Giallocosta as Marco Brezzi
- Wolfgang Pissors as Berlin Custom Officer
- Sifan Shao as Chinese Doctor
- Paul Chan as Taipei Surgeon
- Chou Chung-Wei as Jang's Man
- Huan Jhih-Cyuan as Jang's Man
- I Cheng-Sheng as Jang's Man
- Frank Ma as Jang's Man
- Tseng Sheng-En as Jang's Man
- Liu Hsieh-Min as Mahjong Room Man
- Sandra Abouav as Prehistoric Lucy
- Abel Aboualiten as Prehistoric Man
- Ken Lin as Regent Hotel Concierge #1
- Hsing Feng as Lucy's Driver
- Hsu Hao-hsiang as Warehouse Man Driver
- Laura Lieblein Adam as Lucy's Mother (voice)
- Eunyul Hong as Phone Voice Royal Suite (voice)
- Samuel Churin as The Receptionist
- Mason Lee as Regent Hotel Concierge #2
- Mohammad Aslam Ansari as Fakir
- Kevin Dust as American Native Indian
- Diego Llano as American Native Indian
- Timothy Reevis as American Native Indian
- Jaysson Reyes De La Cruz as American Native Indian
- German Tintaya Mamani as American Native Indian
- Kanneti Sae Han as Rubik's Cube Boy
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 22% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 31
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 to 2 | 22 | 23 |
| 3 to 3 | 8 | 12 |
| 4 to 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 to 5 | 27 | 5 |
| 6 to 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 to 7 | 45 | 20 |
| 8 to 8 | 15 | 1 |
| 9 to 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 to 10 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 to 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 to 12 | 30 | 0 |
| 13 to 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 to 14 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 to 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 to 16 | 9 | 7 |
| 17 to 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 to 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 to 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 to 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 to 21 | 0 | 6 |
| 22 to 22 | 7 | 1 |
| 23 to 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 to 24 | 0 | 2 |
| 25 to 25 | 13 | 12 |
| 26 to 26 | 1 | 5 |
| 27 to 27 | 0 | 3 |
| 28 to 28 | 0 | 1 |
| 29 to 29 | 8 | 4 |
| 30 to 30 | 22 | 5 |
| 31 to 31 | 10 | 6 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scene
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Miss, I have to ask you to put away your computers now. FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Miss? LUCY: You should wipe your nose.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 65 are women's.
236 lines from women, 125 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 44 men in the cast. 2 women and 13 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 14 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 66% of the words (3,050), men 34% (1,576). Women have 65% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
2
Two men
5
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 9 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 26% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Luc Besson (man)
- Written by
- Luc Besson (man)
- Produced by
- Virginie Besson-Silla (woman)
- Shot by
- Thierry Arbogast (man)
- Edited by
- Julien Rey (man)
- Music by
- Éric Serra (man)
- Production design by
- Hugues Tissandier (man)
- Costumes by
- Olivier Bériot (man)
- Cast by
- Nathalie Chéron (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
6 women, 10 men, 6 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 11 men, 4 not listed
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Art
1 women, 7 men, 7 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 3 men, 7 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 1 men, 6 not listed
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Production
2 women, 2 men, 5 not listed
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Camera
2 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 29 on average. Men: 45 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Scarlett Johansson 29
Men
Nicolas Phongpheth 24, Pilou Asbæk 32, Seo Chong-ju 39, Amr Waked 43, Shin Yoo-ram 43, Julian Rhind-Tutt 46, Choi Min-sik 52, Morgan Freeman 77
Exhibit H: the money
It made 11.7 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $469 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 31 scenes and 461 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
