Passes the Bechdel test
Oblivion
2013. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, written by Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt and Joseph Kosinski.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 174. -
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
One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
- Released
- 19 Apr 2013
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 7 / 10
- Metascore
- 54 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 30 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Jack 238 lines, man
- Victoria 114 lines, woman
- Julia 62 lines, woman
- Beech 42 lines, man
- The Tet 8 lines
- Victoria 2 8 lines, woman
- Original Jack 7 lines, man
- Original Victoria 7 lines, woman
- Sykes 4 lines, man
- Woman 4 lines, woman
Full cast, 10 people
- Tom Cruise as Jack
- Morgan Freeman as Beech
- Olga Kurylenko as Julia
- Andrea Riseborough as Victoria
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Sykes
- Melissa Leo as Sally
- Zoë Bell as Kara
- Abigail Lowe as Julia's Child
- Isabelle Lowe as Julia's Child
- Booch O'Connell as Tourist (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 4% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 174
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 to 8 | 6 | 6 |
| 9 to 12 | 12 | 18 |
| 13 to 16 | 7 | 8 |
| 17 to 20 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 to 24 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 to 32 | 18 | 17 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 to 40 | 6 | 7 |
| 41 to 44 | 5 | 5 |
| 45 to 48 | 6 | 4 |
| 49 to 52 | 6 | 5 |
| 53 to 56 | 7 | 9 |
| 57 to 60 | 0 | 6 |
| 61 to 64 | 19 | 8 |
| 65 to 68 | 3 | 3 |
| 69 to 72 | 3 | 7 |
| 73 to 76 | 11 | 10 |
| 77 to 80 | 11 | 10 |
| 81 to 84 | 3 | 3 |
| 85 to 88 | 2 | 3 |
| 89 to 92 | 6 | 26 |
| 93 to 96 | 9 | 24 |
| 97 to 100 | 1 | 15 |
| 101 to 104 | 2 | 3 |
| 105 to 108 | 11 | 9 |
| 109 to 112 | 1 | 2 |
| 113 to 116 | 5 | 9 |
| 117 to 120 | 2 | 3 |
| 121 to 124 | 2 | 3 |
| 125 to 128 | 2 | 15 |
| 129 to 132 | 5 | 4 |
| 133 to 136 | 3 | 0 |
| 137 to 140 | 1 | 3 |
| 141 to 144 | 6 | 3 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 2 |
| 149 to 152 | 7 | 12 |
| 153 to 156 | 4 | 8 |
| 157 to 160 | 3 | 6 |
| 161 to 164 | 0 | 6 |
| 165 to 168 | 1 | 3 |
| 169 to 172 | 0 | 1 |
| 173 to 174 | 2 | 0 |
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.
VICTORIA: She shouldn't be -- Julia turns on Victoria, quickly. JULIA: Thank you. I feel very well. Then, coldly, she boards the ship.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 40 are women's.
200 lines from women, 294 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
7 women and 3 men in the cast. 6 women and 5 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 6 of 515.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 26 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 38% of the words (3,650), men 62% (6,039). Women have 40% 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
3
Two men
9
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Joseph Kosinski (man)
- Written by
- Karl Gajdusek (man), Michael Arndt (man)
- Produced by
- Peter Chernin (man), Joseph Kosinski (man), Duncan Henderson (man), Dylan Clark (man), Barry Levine (man)
- Shot by
- Claudio Miranda (man)
- Edited by
- Richard Francis-Bruce (man)
- Music by
- Joseph Trapanese (man), Anthony Gonzalez (man)
- Production design by
- Darren Gilford (man)
- Costumes by
- Marlene Stewart (woman)
- Cast by
- Marcia Ross (woman), Brittainy Roberts (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
7 women, 13 men, 39 not listed
-
Other crew
8 women, 15 men, 28 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 9 men, 29 not listed
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Art
0 women, 15 men, 22 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 9 men, 23 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
13 women, 5 men, 13 not listed
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Sound
10 women, 16 men, 5 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 6 men, 20 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 32 on average. Men: 56 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Booch O'Connell 11, Andrea Riseborough 31, Olga Kurylenko 33, Zoë Bell 34, Melissa Leo 52
Men
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 42, Tom Cruise 50, Morgan Freeman 75
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.4 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $120 million
- Box office
- $286 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 174 scenes and 515 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
