Passes the Bechdel test
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015. Directed by George Miller, written by George Miller and Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
16 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1. -
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
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
- Released
- 15 May 2015
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 8.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 90 / 100
- Awards
- Won 6 Oscars. 246 wins & 240 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Praetorian 188 lines
- Road Warrior 142 lines, man
- Nux 78 lines, man
- Capable 72 lines, woman
- Knowing 46 lines, woman
- Volvalini 40 lines
- The Wag 38 lines
- The Bullet Farmer 24 lines, man
- Fragile 22 lines, woman
- Splendid 20 lines, woman
Full cast, 62 people
- Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky
- Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa
- Nicholas Hoult as Nux
- Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe
- Josh Helman as Slit
- Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus
- Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad
- Riley Keough as Capable
- Abbey Lee as The Dag
- Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile
- John Howard as The People Eater
- Richard Carter as The Bullet Farmer
- Iota as The Doof Warrior
- Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic
- Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy
- Megan Gale as The Valkyrie
- Melissa Jaffer as Keeper of the Seeds
- Melita Jurišić as The Vuvalini
- Gillian Jones as The Vuvalini
- Joy Smithers as The Vuvalini
- Antoinette Kellerman as The Vuvalini
- Christina Koch as The Vuvalini
- Jon Iles as The Ace
- Quentin Kenihan as Corpus Colossus
- Coco Jack Gillies as Glory the Child
- Chris Patton as Morsov
- Stephen Dunlevy as The Rock Rider Chief / The Winchman
- Richard Norton as The Prime Imperator
- Vincent Roxburgh as Imperator
- John Walton as Imperator
- Ben Smith-Petersen as Chanting War Boy / Red Flare Warrior
- Russ McCarroll as Blood 'Shed' War Boy
- Judd Wild as War Rig War Boy
- Elizabeth Cunico as Milking Mother
- Greg Van Borssum as Ripsaw Imperator / The Breakman
- Robert Jones as Ripsaw Driver
- Sebastian Dickins as Polecat Lookout
- Darren Mitchell as Black Mask
- Crusoe Kurddal as The Accusing Dead
- Shyan Tonga as The Accusing Dead
- Cass Cumerford as The Wretched
- Albert Lee as The Wretched
- Riley Paton as War Pup
- Ripley Voeten as War Pup
- Maycn Van Borssum as War Pup
- Hunter Stratton Boland as War Pup
- Nathan Jenkins as War Pup
- Fletcher Gill as War Pup
- Whiley Toll as War Pup
- Ferdinand Hengombe as Drummer
- Gadaffi Davsab as Drummer
- Noddy Alfred as Drummer
- Jackson Hengombe as Drummer
- Christian Fane as Drummer
- Callum Gallagher as Drummer
- Abel Hofflin as Drummer
- Lee Perry as The Many Voices (voice)
- Hiroshi Kasuga as The Wretched (uncredited)
- Jeremy Costello as War Boy (uncredited)
- Rhavin Banda as War Boy
- Sandi Finlay as The Wretched / Treadmill Rat
Who talks, scene by scene
We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
CAPABLE: It's got a gun. SPLENDID: It always has. CAPABLE: Is that just the wind or a furious vexation?
FRAGILE: I was holding her. I had her in my arms! KNOWING: It fell off ... It just fell off. CAPABLE: Stop! Why don't you stop!
FRAGILE: She was here ... I was holding her ... Then ... She wasn't any more. CAPABLE: Cheedo!
FRAGILE: I was holding her. I had her in my arms! KNOWING: It fell off ... It just fell off. CAPABLE: Stop! Why don't you stop!
FRAGILE: She was here ... I was holding her ... Then ... She wasn't any more. CAPABLE: Cheedo!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 31 are women's.
177 lines from women, 396 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
16 women and 28 men in the cast. 5 women and 18 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 6 of 869.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 72 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 30% of the words (1,316), men 70% (3,063). Women have 31% 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
14
Two men
29
Exhibit F: behind the camera
5 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 30% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- George Miller (man)
- Written by
- George Miller (man), Nico Lathouris (man), Brendan McCarthy (man)
- Produced by
- Doug Mitchell (man), George Miller (man), P.J. Voeten (man)
- Shot by
- John Seale (man)
- Edited by
- Margaret Sixel (woman)
- Music by
- Tom Holkenborg (man)
- Production design by
- Colin Gibson (man)
- Costumes by
- Jenny Beavan (woman)
- Cast by
- Ronna Kress (woman), Kate Dowd (woman), Nikki Barrett (woman), Mito Skellern (man)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
9 women, 28 men, 4 not listed
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Sound
5 women, 15 men, 10 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 2 men, 15 not listed
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Production
7 women, 9 men, 2 not listed
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Art
6 women, 10 men
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Camera
0 women, 13 men
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Costume & Make-Up
8 women, 1 men, 4 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 9 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 29 on average. Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Riley Keough 25, Zoë Kravitz 26, Abbey Lee 27, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 28, Charlize Theron 39
Men
Nicholas Hoult 25, Josh Helman 29, Tom Hardy 37, Nathan Jones 45, Hugh Keays-Byrne 67
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.5 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $150 million
- Box office
- $379 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 869 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
