Passes the Bechdel test
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010. Directed by Edgar Wright, written by Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright and Bryan Lee O'Malley.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
16 women characters. 13 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 8 scenes out of 100. -
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
Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tries to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona.
- Released
- 13 Aug 2010
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 7.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 69 / 100
- Awards
- 18 wins & 66 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Scott 546 lines, man
- Ramona 210 lines, woman
- Wallace 102 lines, man
- Knives Chau 84 lines, woman
- Stephen Stills 72 lines, man
- Kim Pine 43 lines, woman
- Todd Ingram 30 lines, man
- Julie 29 lines, woman
- Young Neil 29 lines, man
- Envy 26 lines, woman
Full cast, 44 people
- Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers
- Ellen Wong as Knives Chau
- Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells
- Alison Pill as Kim Pine
- Mark Webber as Stephen Stills
- Johnny Simmons as Young Neil
- Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Graves
- Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim
- Aubrey Plaza as Julie Powers
- Satya Bhabha as Matthew Patel
- Chris Evans as Lucas Lee
- Brandon Routh as Todd Ingram
- Mae Whitman as Roxy Richter
- Brie Larson as Envy Adams
- Keita Saito as Kyle Katayanagi
- Shota Saito as Ken Katayanagi
- Will Bowes as Party Goer
- Celine Lepage as Party Goer
- Mark Leroy as Party Goer
- Kjartan Hewitt as Jimmy
- Ben Lewis as Other Scott
- Nelson Franklin as Comeau
- Kristina Pesic as Sandra
- Matt Watts as Promoter
- Ingrid Haas as Monique
- Maurie W. Kaufmann as Joel
- Marley Otto as Party Goer
- Christine Watson as Demon Hipster Chick
- Chantelle Chung as Tamara Chen
- Don McKellar as Director
- Jung-Yul Kim as Goon
- Erik Knudsen as Crash
- Abigail Chu as Trasha
- Tennessee Thomas as Lynette Guycott
- Emily Kassie as Winifred Hailey
- Michael Lazarovitch as Some Guy
- John Patrick Amedori as Lollipop Hipster
- Joe Dinicol as Elevator Hipster
- Craig Stickland as Elevator Hipster
- Bill Hader as The Voice (voice)
- Thomas Jane as Vegan Police (uncredited)
- Clifton Collins Jr. as Vegan Police (uncredited)
- Bryan Lee O'Malley as Lee's Palace Bar Patron (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 100
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 to 6 | 7 | 12 |
| 7 to 9 | 12 | 17 |
| 10 to 12 | 10 | 32 |
| 13 to 15 | 10 | 11 |
| 16 to 18 | 5 | 21 |
| 19 to 21 | 8 | 14 |
| 22 to 24 | 27 | 83 |
| 25 to 27 | 3 | 3 |
| 28 to 30 | 9 | 14 |
| 31 to 33 | 39 | 40 |
| 34 to 36 | 16 | 18 |
| 37 to 39 | 10 | 19 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 4 |
| 43 to 45 | 7 | 1 |
| 46 to 48 | 8 | 32 |
| 49 to 51 | 6 | 29 |
| 52 to 54 | 9 | 12 |
| 55 to 57 | 28 | 53 |
| 58 to 60 | 10 | 107 |
| 61 to 63 | 27 | 29 |
| 64 to 66 | 5 | 18 |
| 67 to 69 | 10 | 0 |
| 70 to 72 | 4 | 4 |
| 73 to 75 | 9 | 7 |
| 76 to 78 | 32 | 46 |
| 79 to 81 | 19 | 39 |
| 82 to 84 | 48 | 54 |
| 85 to 87 | 19 | 37 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 17 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 5 |
| 94 to 96 | 22 | 51 |
| 97 to 99 | 10 | 25 |
| 100 to 100 | 14 | 12 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
KNIVES CHAU: Hi, sorry, what was your name? KNIVES CHAU: You play the drums? REVEAL Kim sitting behind the drumset, sticks in her hands. KIM PINE: ...yes. KNIVES CHAU: That is so awesome.
KNIVES CHAU: Well, I was on the bus with my Mom- Knives freezes, staring at the stage. RAMONA: Is that seriously the end of the story? KNIVES CHAU: OH MY GOSH, they're on!
ENVY: Great. You're so on the list. JULIE: Caramel Fuckiato for fuck Pilgrim!
KNIVES CHAU: Hey Ramona. RAMONA: Hey. Ramona exits, confused. Knives follows. RAMONA: What the hell?
KIM PINE: Look who Knives is hanging with. RAMONA: Who is that girl again?
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 34 are women's.
446 lines from women, 878 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
16 women and 27 men in the cast. 13 women and 18 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 1,354.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 81 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 31% of the words (4,706), men 69% (10,254). Women have 34% 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
31
Two men
79
Exhibit F: behind the camera
5 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Edgar Wright (man)
- Written by
- Michael Bacall (man), Edgar Wright (man)
- Produced by
- Eric Gitter (man), Nira Park (woman), Marc Platt (man), Edgar Wright (man)
- Shot by
- Bill Pope (man)
- Edited by
- Jonathan Amos (man), Paul Machliss (man)
- Music by
- Nigel Godrich (man)
- Production design by
- Marcus Rowland (man)
- Costumes by
- Laura Jean Shannon (woman)
- Cast by
- Robin D. Cook (woman), Jennifer Euston (woman), Allison Jones (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
5 women, 18 men, 9 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 16 men, 4 not listed
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Production
6 women, 12 men, 1 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 5 men, 5 not listed
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Art
2 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 0 men, 6 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 6 men
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Writing
0 women, 3 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 25 on average. Men: 26 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Alison Pill 24, Mary Elizabeth Winstead 25, Ellen Wong 25, Anna Kendrick 25, Aubrey Plaza 26
Men
Michael Cera 22, Johnny Simmons 23, Kieran Culkin 27, Mark Webber 30, Jason Schwartzman 30
Exhibit H: the money
It made 71% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $73 million
- Box office
- $51.8 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 100 scenes and 1,354 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
