Passes the Bechdel test
Pacific Rim
2013. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 267. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
When monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes, a washed-up former pilot and an untested trainee. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting Armageddon.
- Released
- 12 Jul 2013
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.9 / 10
- Metascore
- 65 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 7 wins & 48 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Raleigh 185 lines, man
- Flick 120 lines, woman
- Mako 106 lines, woman
- Newt 99 lines, man
- Pentecost 92 lines, man
- Duc 57 lines, man
- Takada 49 lines, man
- Czerny 41 lines, man
- Kaori 19 lines
- Yancy 17 lines, man
Full cast, 53 people
- Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket
- Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori
- Idris Elba as Stacker Pentecost
- Max Martini as Herc Hansen
- Clifton Collins Jr. as Tendo Choi
- Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau
- Charlie Day as Dr. Newton Geiszler
- Burn Gorman as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
- Robert Kazinsky as Chuck Hansen
- Robert Maillet as Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky
- Heather Doerksen as Lt. Sasha Kaidanovsky
- Larry Joe Campbell as Tommy T
- Brad William Henke as Miles
- Diego Klattenhoff as Yancy Becket
- Santiago Segura as Wizened Man
- Jane Watson as Raleigh and Yancy's Mom
- Jung-Yul Kim as Hannibal Chau Thug
- Joshua Peace as Officer
- Mana Ashida as Young Mako
- Joe Pingue as Captain Merrit
- Milton Barnes as McTighe
- Brian Frank as 1st Officer
- Ellen McLain as Gipsy Danger AI (voice)
- David Fox as Old Man on Beach
- Jake Goodman as Child
- Robin Thomas as American UN Representative
- Julian Barnes as British UN Representative
- David Richmond-Peck as Canadian UN Representative
- Sebastian Pigott as Engineer
- J.C. Kenny as TV Reporter
- Robert Morse as Raleigh and Yancy's Dad
- Mike Chute as Saltchuck Crew
- Duncan McLeod as Saltchuck Crew
- Louis Paquette as Saltchuck Crew
- Matthew G. Taylor as Saltchuck Crew
- Frank Nakashima as UN Representative
- Terry Belleville as UN Representative
- Farzad Sadrian as UN Representative
- Mishu Vellani as UN Representative
- Clive Walton as UN Representative
- Peter Kosaka as Young Mako's Father
- Yiren Stark as Young Mako's Mother
- Mark Luu as Wei Tang Triplet
- Charles Luu as Wei Tang Triplet
- Lance Luu as Wei Tang Triplet
- William S. Wong as Engineer (uncredited)
- Victoria Sawal as Chinese Girl in Anti-Kaiju Refuge
- Timothy Gibbs as Marine (uncredited)
- Hugh Tran as Asian Boy
- Scott Martin Gershin as Kaiju Sound Effects (voice) (uncredited)
- Drew Adkins as Young Gottlieb
- Barack Obama as Self (archived footage)
- Simu Liu as Extra (Uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 6 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 267
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 7 to 12 | 25 | 12 |
| 13 to 18 | 1 | 23 |
| 19 to 24 | 14 | 41 |
| 25 to 30 | 19 | 24 |
| 31 to 36 | 8 | 9 |
| 37 to 42 | 15 | 15 |
| 43 to 48 | 2 | 4 |
| 49 to 54 | 2 | 9 |
| 55 to 60 | 5 | 7 |
| 61 to 66 | 3 | 54 |
| 67 to 72 | 20 | 18 |
| 73 to 78 | 9 | 27 |
| 79 to 84 | 4 | 17 |
| 85 to 90 | 1 | 4 |
| 91 to 96 | 0 | 2 |
| 97 to 102 | 3 | 2 |
| 103 to 108 | 8 | 6 |
| 109 to 114 | 2 | 9 |
| 115 to 120 | 4 | 2 |
| 121 to 126 | 18 | 56 |
| 127 to 132 | 10 | 13 |
| 133 to 138 | 0 | 20 |
| 139 to 144 | 3 | 2 |
| 145 to 150 | 8 | 7 |
| 151 to 156 | 14 | 19 |
| 157 to 162 | 2 | 6 |
| 163 to 168 | 1 | 7 |
| 169 to 174 | 1 | 4 |
| 175 to 180 | 1 | 11 |
| 181 to 186 | 0 | 7 |
| 187 to 192 | 3 | 4 |
| 193 to 198 | 4 | 44 |
| 199 to 204 | 16 | 25 |
| 205 to 210 | 1 | 11 |
| 211 to 216 | 1 | 2 |
| 217 to 222 | 0 | 2 |
| 223 to 228 | 1 | 0 |
| 229 to 234 | 0 | 0 |
| 235 to 240 | 0 | 3 |
| 241 to 246 | 3 | 5 |
| 247 to 252 | 0 | 3 |
| 253 to 258 | 0 | 1 |
| 259 to 264 | 2 | 2 |
| 265 to 267 | 0 | 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.
MAKO: It can get complicated. Even for normal people... FLICK: Did I screw up the bond that drove the machine? --
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 30 are women's.
236 lines from women, 554 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
7 women and 42 men in the cast. 5 women and 5 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 18 of 897.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 50 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 27% of the words (1,988), men 73% (5,413). Women have 30% 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
2
Two men
45
Exhibit F: behind the camera
5 of the 17 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 17% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Guillermo del Toro (man)
- Written by
- Travis Beacham (man), Guillermo del Toro (man)
- Story by
- Travis Beacham (man)
- Produced by
- Guillermo del Toro (man), Jon Jashni (man), Mary Parent (woman), Thomas Tull (man)
- Shot by
- Guillermo Navarro (man)
- Edited by
- Peter Amundson (man), John Gilroy (man)
- Music by
- Ramin Djawadi (man)
- Production design by
- Andrew Neskoromny (man), Carol Spier (woman)
- Costumes by
- Kate Hawley (woman)
- Cast by
- Margery Simkin (woman), Robin D. Cook (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Art
4 women, 25 men, 38 not listed
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Production
7 women, 9 men, 31 not listed
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Sound
3 women, 24 men, 10 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 13 men, 17 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 9 men, 18 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 11 men, 16 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 3 men, 8 not listed
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Editing
2 women, 3 men, 9 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 32 on average. Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Rinko Kikuchi 32
Men
Robert Kazinsky 29, Charlie Hunnam 33, Charlie Day 37, Burn Gorman 38, Idris Elba 40, Max Martini 43, Clifton Collins Jr. 43, Robert Maillet 43, Ron Perlman 63
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.3 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $180 million
- Box office
- $411 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 267 scenes and 897 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
