Passes the Bechdel test

Skyscraper

Name: Skyscraper
Released: 2018

2018. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, written by Rawson Marshall Thurber.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
16 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 6 scenes out of 95.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in Hong Kong he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze and he's been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who are trapped inside the building - above the fire line.

Released: 13 Jul 2018
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 5.8 / 10
Metascore: 51 / 100
Awards: 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Will 192 lines, man
Sarah 109 lines, woman
Zhao 86 lines, man
Horace 60 lines, man
Captain Chan 40 lines, man
Lieutenant Han 31 lines, woman
Georgia 23 lines, woman
Henry 20 lines, man
Pierce 18 lines, man
Mr. Pierce 17 lines, man

Full cast, 56 people

Dwayne Johnson as Will Sawyer
Neve Campbell as Sarah Sawyer
Chin Han as Zhao Long Ji
Roland Møller as Kores Botha
Noah Taylor as Mr. Pierce
Byron Mann as Inspector Wu
Pablo Schreiber as Ben
McKenna Roberts as Georgia Sawyer
Noah Cottrell as Henry Sawyer
Hannah Quinlivan as Xia
Adrian Holmes as Ajani Okeke
Elfina Luk as Sergeant Han
Kevin Rankin as Ray
Gretal Montgomery as Ray's Wife
Jett Klyne as Ray's Son
Kayden Magnuson as Ray's Daughter
Byron Lawson as Suit #1
Jason William Day as Botha's Thug #1
Ryan Handley as Botha's Thug #2
Sean Kohnke as Botha's Thug #3
Shawn Stewart as Botha's Thug #4
Brian Ho as Shady Man
Nelson Wong as News Camera Man
Mike Li as Operations Technician
Colin Corrigan as Windbreaker Man
Omari Newton as Hostage Rescue Commander
Venus Terzo as Hostage Negotiator
Paul McGillion as On-Scene Commander
Matt O'Leary as Skinny Hacker
Tzi Ma as Fire Chief Sheng
Tina Tong as Building Voice (voice)
Carlo Yu as HKP Officer #1
Dimitry Tsoy as HKP Officer #2
Allen Keng as HKP Officer #3
Sam Yunussov as Penthouse Guard #1
Paul Wu as Penthouse Guard #2
Glenn Chow as Maintenance Technician
Rob 'Sluggo' Boyce as Helicopter Pilot
Aaron Au as Police Sniper
Grace Wang as News Reporter #1
Marcus Sim as News Reporter #2
Rene Wang as Hong Kong Newscaster
Kathy Wu as Chinese Newscaster #1
Lawrence Chau as Chinese Newscaster #2
Evan Lai as Chinese Newscaster #3
Shamel Hashish as Arabic Speaking Newscaster
Matthew Wolf as British Newscaster
Fabio Tassone as French Newscaster
Leanne Suter as American Newscaster #1
Rick Chambers as American Newscaster #2
Lasaundra Gibson as American Newscaster #3
Wendy Jacobson as Zhao Interviewer
Sarah K. Thurber as Ferry Princess
Malin Barr as Swedish Newscaster (uncredited)
Vivian Full as Ben's Neighbour (uncredited)
Beatrice King as Asian Lady (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 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 95

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	1
3 to 4	1	2
5 to 6	2	12
7 to 8	27	23
9 to 10	23	31
11 to 12	0	24
13 to 14	0	59
15 to 16	0	42
17 to 18	0	1
19 to 20	13	16
21 to 22	0	24
23 to 24	5	2
25 to 26	0	0
27 to 28	2	12
29 to 30	0	2
31 to 32	0	0
33 to 34	0	10
35 to 36	9	5
37 to 38	6	1
39 to 40	2	27
41 to 42	0	0
43 to 44	15	17
45 to 46	0	5
47 to 48	1	1
49 to 50	0	17
51 to 52	0	0
53 to 54	0	3
55 to 56	2	1
57 to 58	0	4
59 to 60	2	2
61 to 62	0	1
63 to 64	2	1
65 to 66	0	2
67 to 68	14	11
69 to 70	6	14
71 to 72	0	1
73 to 74	3	10
75 to 76	3	15
77 to 78	24	4
79 to 80	0	0
81 to 82	0	0
83 to 84	0	0
85 to 86	0	20
87 to 88	0	22
89 to 90	12	35
91 to 92	3	3
93 to 94	0	0
95 to 95	1	6

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.

SARAH: Tag you're it! HONG KONG: Then a SOOTHING VOICE...

GEORGIA: Me! SARAH: I gotta get a chant.

GEORGIA: Mom -- are we gonna die? SARAH: No honey, we're not gonna die.

GEORGIA: Where are we going? SARAH: Up.

SARAH: It's okay, baby. Just slow down. Slow down and breathe. In for three, out for three. SARAH: Okay, we gotta go. GEORGIA: Why? There's water here. SARAH: It's not safe.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 27 are women's.

178 lines from women, 489 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

16 women and 35 men in the cast. 6 women and 11 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 698. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 129 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 22% of the words (1,559), men 78% (5,377). Women have 27% 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 15 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber (man)
Written by: Rawson Marshall Thurber (man)
Produced by: Dwayne Johnson (man), Beau Flynn (man), Mary Parent (woman), Hiram Garcia (man), Rawson Marshall Thurber (man)
Shot by: Robert Elswit (man)
Edited by: Michael L. Sale (man), Julian Clarke (man)
Music by: Steve Jablonsky (man)
Production design by: James D. Bissell (man)
Costumes by: Luca Mosca (man), Ann Foley (woman)
Cast by: Sarah Halley Finn (woman)