Passes the Bechdel test
Pitch Black
2000. Directed by David Twohy, written by Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat and David Twohy.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
4 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 5 scenes out of 213. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
The space transport vessel "Hunter-Gratzner" carrying 40 people on-board crashes on a desert planet when the ship is struck in a meteor storm. There are only 11 survivors, among them are pilot Carolyn Fry (Who has assumed command after the ship's captain is killed), bounty hunter William J. Johns, religious man Abu Al-Walid, Antiques dealer Paris P. Ogilvie, runaway teenager Jack, settlers John 'Zeke' Ezekiel and his lover Sharon 'Shazza' Montgomery, and Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous escaped convict. Marooned, the survivors discover the barren and hot desert-scape has sunlight from three suns. Not only must they find food and water and worry about Riddick, the survivors find themselves being hunted by the planet's flesh-eating inhabitants when the planet is engulfed in darkness, which happens every 22 years, as they emerge from underground to hunt and eat all signs of life. Fry and the survivors find Riddick is their best chance of survival, as Riddick has surgically-enhanced eyes that allow him to see in the dark as they set out to find a way of escaping from the planet and getting to an escape shuttle, before they all get eaten by the creatures on the surface.
- Released
- 18 Feb 2000
- Genres
- Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7 / 10
- Metascore
- 49 / 100
- Awards
- 2 wins & 9 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Fry 205 lines, woman
- Johns 141 lines, man
- Riddick 128 lines, man
- Imam 53 lines, man
- Paris 43 lines, man
- Audrey 34 lines
- Shazza 23 lines, woman
- Owens 18 lines, man
- Zeke 11 lines, man
- Pilgrim #1 4 lines
Full cast, 16 people
- Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick
- Radha Mitchell as Carolyn Fry
- Cole Hauser as William J. Johns
- Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Paris P. Ogilvie
- Claudia Black as Shazza
- Keith David as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
- Rhiana Griffith as Jack / Jackie
- John Moore as John 'Zeke' Ezekiel
- Simon Burke as Greg Owens
- Les Chantery as Suleiman
- Sam Sari as Hassan
- Firass Dirani as Ali
- Ric Anderson as Total Stranger
- Vic Wilson as Captain Tom Mitchell
- Angela Moore as Dead Crew Member
- Ken Twohy as Spaceship Traveler in Cryo (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 213
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 6 to 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 to 15 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 to 20 | 4 | 4 |
| 21 to 25 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 to 30 | 6 | 6 |
| 31 to 35 | 10 | 11 |
| 36 to 40 | 5 | 12 |
| 41 to 45 | 11 | 22 |
| 46 to 50 | 1 | 3 |
| 51 to 55 | 6 | 7 |
| 56 to 60 | 2 | 10 |
| 61 to 65 | 4 | 1 |
| 66 to 70 | 4 | 10 |
| 71 to 75 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 to 80 | 19 | 16 |
| 81 to 85 | 1 | 0 |
| 86 to 90 | 5 | 3 |
| 91 to 95 | 2 | 22 |
| 96 to 100 | 6 | 7 |
| 101 to 105 | 1 | 6 |
| 106 to 110 | 3 | 10 |
| 111 to 115 | 0 | 1 |
| 116 to 120 | 19 | 21 |
| 121 to 125 | 15 | 16 |
| 126 to 130 | 2 | 1 |
| 131 to 135 | 1 | 0 |
| 136 to 140 | 2 | 2 |
| 141 to 145 | 5 | 15 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 3 |
| 151 to 155 | 21 | 32 |
| 156 to 160 | 7 | 7 |
| 161 to 165 | 6 | 13 |
| 166 to 170 | 14 | 41 |
| 171 to 175 | 5 | 12 |
| 176 to 180 | 6 | 22 |
| 181 to 185 | 3 | 12 |
| 186 to 190 | 3 | 5 |
| 191 to 195 | 3 | 1 |
| 196 to 200 | 0 | 0 |
| 201 to 205 | 14 | 15 |
| 206 to 210 | 4 | 8 |
| 211 to 213 | 0 | 6 |
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.
FRY: Somethin' knocked us off-lane. Maybe a rogue comet. Maybe we'll never know. SHAZZA: Well, I for one, am thoroughly fucking grateful. This beast wasn't made to land like this. But cripes, you rode it down. C'mon, you lousy in…
FRY: Nothing we can't repair -- so long as the electrical adapts. SHAZZA: Not a star-jumper.
FRY: Core-samples are dated. Last one is 60 years ago. This month. SHAZZA: Yeah? What's special about that? FRY: Dunno. Maybe nothing, but....
FRY: It's starting.... SHAZZA: If we need anything from the crash ship -- I suggest we kick on. That sand-cat's solar.
FRY: LET'S GET THOSE CELLS! SHAZZA: We stay together! C'mon!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 37 are women's.
228 lines from women, 394 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
4 women and 10 men in the cast. 2 women and 6 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 5 of 688.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 19 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 32% of the words (1,952), men 68% (4,067). Women have 37% 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
8
Two men
54
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- David Twohy (man)
- Written by
- Jim Wheat (man), Ken Wheat (man), David Twohy (man)
- Story by
- Ken Wheat (man), Jim Wheat (man)
- Produced by
- Tom Engelman (man)
- Shot by
- David Eggby (man)
- Edited by
- Rick Shaine (man)
- Music by
- Graeme Revell (man)
- Production design by
- Graham "Grace" Walker (man)
- Costumes by
- Anna Borghesi (woman)
- Cast by
- Anne McCarthy (woman), Mary Vernieu (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
11 women, 4 men, 19 not listed
-
Sound
6 women, 14 men, 9 not listed
-
Other crew
0 women, 2 men, 20 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 14 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 5 men, 10 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 1 men, 7 not listed
-
Writing
0 women, 5 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 22 on average. Men: 35 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Rhiana Griffith 14, Radha Mitchell 26, Claudia Black 27
Men
Cole Hauser 24, Vin Diesel 32, John Moore 32, Simon Burke 38, Lewis Fitz-Gerald 41, Keith David 43
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.3 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $23 million
- Box office
- $53.2 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 213 scenes and 688 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
