Fails the Bechdel test
Predators
2010. Directed by Nimród Antal, written by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch and Jim Thomas.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
Robert Rodriguez presents Predators, a bold new chapter in the Predator universe. Adrien Brody stars as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors in a mysterious mission on an alien planet. Except for a disgraced physician, they are all coldblooded killers - mercenaries, mobsters, convicts and death squad members - human "predators." But when they begin to be systematically hunted and eliminated by a new predator breed, it becomes clear that suddenly, they are the prey.
- Released
- 09 Jul 2010
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 51 / 100
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Royce 84 lines, man
- Isabelle 64 lines, woman
- Edwin 43 lines, man
- Stans 42 lines, man
- Noland 24 lines, man
- Cuchillo 20 lines, man
- Nikolai 20 lines, man
- Mombasa 15 lines, man
- Hanzo 5 lines, man
- Isabel 5 lines
Full cast, 13 people
- Adrien Brody as Royce
- Topher Grace as Edwin
- Alice Braga as Isabelle
- Walton Goggins as Stans
- Oleg Taktarov as Nikolai
- Laurence Fishburne as Noland
- Danny Trejo as Cuchillo
- Louis Ozawa as Hanzo
- Mahershala Ali as Mombasa
- Carey Jones as Tracker Predator
- Brian Steele as Berserker Predator / Falconer Predator
- Derek Mears as Classic Predator
- Aaron Richardson as Rocky (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 149
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 to 8 | 6 | 33 |
| 9 to 12 | 4 | 16 |
| 13 to 16 | 3 | 24 |
| 17 to 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 to 24 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 to 32 | 3 | 20 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 to 40 | 1 | 12 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 to 52 | 11 | 21 |
| 53 to 56 | 4 | 10 |
| 57 to 60 | 10 | 56 |
| 61 to 64 | 0 | 4 |
| 65 to 68 | 0 | 2 |
| 69 to 72 | 2 | 6 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 to 80 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 0 |
| 89 to 92 | 2 | 6 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 100 | 1 | 1 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 0 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 0 |
| 109 to 112 | 9 | 15 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 0 |
| 117 to 120 | 0 | 0 |
| 121 to 124 | 0 | 0 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 1 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 3 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 2 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 3 |
| 141 to 144 | 2 | 4 |
| 145 to 148 | 4 | 4 |
| 149 to 149 | 0 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 20 are women's.
64 lines from women, 253 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
1 women and 12 men in the cast. 1 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 15 of 330.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 23 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 21% of the words (513), men 79% (1,874). Women have 20% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit D: 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
0
Two men
33
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 15 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 21% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Nimród Antal (man)
- Written by
- Alex Litvak (man), Michael Finch (man)
- Produced by
- John Davis (man), Robert Rodriguez (man), Elizabeth Avellan (woman)
- Shot by
- Gyula Pados (man)
- Edited by
- Dan Zimmerman (man)
- Music by
- John Debney (man)
- Production design by
- Steve Joyner (man), Caylah Eddleblute (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Nina Proctor (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- J.C. Cantu (man), Jaina Ashton (gender not listed), Mary Vernieu (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
2 women, 22 men, 3 not listed
-
Art
2 women, 4 men, 7 not listed
-
Sound
2 women, 7 men, 4 not listed
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Production
3 women, 6 men, 3 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 4 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 27 on average. Men: 42 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Alice Braga 27
Men
Topher Grace 31, Louis Ozawa 34, Mahershala Ali 36, Adrien Brody 37, Walton Goggins 38, Oleg Taktarov 42, Laurence Fishburne 48, Danny Trejo 66
Exhibit G: the money
It made 3.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $127 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 149 scenes and 330 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
