Passes the Bechdel test

Pandorum

Name: Pandorum
Released: 2009

2009. Directed by Christian Alvart, written by Travis Milloy and Christian Alvart.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
6 women characters. 2 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 111.
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

Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly - and horrifically - realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can't remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft's shocking, deadly secrets are revealed...and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

Released: 25 Sep 2009
Genres: Action, Horror, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.7 / 10
Metascore: 28 / 100
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Bower 301 lines, man
Payton 161 lines, man
Nadia 89 lines, woman
Gallo 84 lines, man
Leland 41 lines, man
I 19 lines
Shepard 14 lines, man
Tanaka 11 lines, man
Nadir 5 lines, woman
Push In 3 lines

Full cast, 24 people

Ben Foster as Bower
Dennis Quaid as Payton
Cam Gigandet as Gallo
Antje Traue as Nadia
Cung Le as Manh
Eddie Rouse as Leland
Norman Reedus as Shepard
André Hennicke as Hunter Leader
Friederike Kempter as Evalon
Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Insane Officer 'Eden'
Asia Luna Mohmand as Child Hunter
Delphine Chuillot as Young Bower's Mother
Wotan Wilke Möhring as Young Bower's Father
Julian Rappe as Young Bower
Domenico D'Ambrosio as Wounded Officer 'Eden'
Jon Foster as Big Russian Passenger
Jeff Burrell as Trapped Officer 'Eden'
Neelesha Barthel as Female Crew Officer
Yangzom Brauen as 2nd Lieutenant (Team 4)
Marco Albrecht as Hunter Weasel
Dawid Szatarski as Hunter Shape
Nico Marquardt as Hunter Brute
Don Jeanes as Mateo (uncredited)
David P. Johnson as Cooper (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 111

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	0	6
7 to 9	0	76
10 to 12	0	26
13 to 15	0	9
16 to 18	0	9
19 to 21	0	13
22 to 24	0	4
25 to 27	0	5
28 to 30	0	5
31 to 33	5	15
34 to 36	0	11
37 to 39	0	15
40 to 42	0	3
43 to 45	0	11
46 to 48	0	35
49 to 51	0	22
52 to 54	14	32
55 to 57	16	16
58 to 60	9	26
61 to 63	7	10
64 to 66	9	46
67 to 69	6	36
70 to 72	0	18
73 to 75	0	12
76 to 78	1	11
79 to 81	10	17
82 to 84	1	8
85 to 87	3	16
88 to 90	7	17
91 to 93	0	18
94 to 96	1	17
97 to 99	1	9
100 to 102	0	4
103 to 105	2	39
106 to 108	3	5
109 to 111	0	2

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.

NADIA: Can you fly it... if you have to? NADIR: I'll get you as close to it as I can. But, I won't wait for you.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 13 are women's.

95 lines from women, 624 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 16 men in the cast. 2 women and 14 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 163 of 771. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 162 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 11% of the words (1,475), men 89% (11,674). Women have 13% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Christian Alvart (man)
Written by: Travis Milloy (man)
Story by: Travis Milloy (man), Christian Alvart (man)
Produced by: Jeremy Bolt (man), Paul W. S. Anderson (man), Robert Kulzer (man)
Shot by: Wedigo von Schultzendorff (man)
Edited by: Philipp Stahl (gender not listed), Yvonne Valdez (woman)
Music by: Michl Britsch (gender not listed)
Production design by: Richard Bridgland (man)
Costumes by: Ivana Milos (gender not listed)
Cast by: Ana Dávila (gender not listed), Sarah Halley Finn (woman), Randi Hiller (woman)