Passes the Bechdel test

Speed Racer

Name: Speed Racer
Released: 2008

2008. Directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, written by Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski and Tatsuo Yoshida.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
17 women characters. 9 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 325.
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

Speed Racer is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car-racing rally that claimed the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. Speed is loyal to the family business, run by his parents Pops and Mom. Pops designed Speed's car, the Mach 5. The owner of Royalton Industries makes Speed a lucrative offer; Speed rejects it, angering the owner. Speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests, including Royalton, are fixing races and cheating to gain profit. With the offer to Speed denied, Royalton wants to ensure that Speed will not win races. Speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend Trixie and enters The Crucible in a partnership with his one-time rival, Racer X, seeking to rescue his family's business and the racing sport itself.

Released: 09 May 2008
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.1 / 10
Metascore: 37 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 12 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Speed 217 lines, man
Remmington 102 lines, man
Pops 101 lines, man
Sprittle 77 lines, man
Racer X 62 lines, man
Trixie 53 lines, woman
Sparky 37 lines, man
Cruncher 36 lines, man
Mom 35 lines, woman
Cass Jones 26 lines, man

Full cast, 82 people

Emile Hirsch as Speed
Christina Ricci as Trixie
John Goodman as Pops
Susan Sarandon as Mom
Matthew Fox as Racer X
Roger Allam as Royalton
Paulie Litt as Spritle
Benno Fürmann as Inspector Detector
Hiroyuki Sanada as Mr. Musha
Rain as Taejo Togokahn
Richard Roundtree as Ben Burns
Kick Gurry as Sparky
John Benfield as Cruncher Block
Christian Oliver as Snake Oiler
Ralph Herforth as Cannonball Taylor
Scott Porter as Rex
Yu Nan as Horuko
Nayo Wallace as Minx
Melvil Poupaud as Johnny 'Goodboy' Jones
Ramon Tikaram as Casa Christo Announcer
Ben Miles as Cass Jones
Peter Fernandez as Local Announcer
Cosma Shiva Hagen as Gennie
Moritz Bleibtreu as Grey Ghost
Karl Yune as Taejo Body Guard
Joon Park as Yakuza Driver
Nicholas Elia as Young Speed
Melissa Holroyd as Speed's Teacher
Ariel Winter as Young Trixie
Gian Ganziano as Everyman Announcer
Harvey Friedman as Harold Ledermann Announcer
Sadao Ueda as Japanese Announcer
Valery Tscheplanowa as Russian Announcer
Sami Loris as Italian Announcer
Olivier Marlo as French Announcer
Sean McDonagh as Celtic Announcer
Vinzenz Kiefer as Crew Chief / Sempre Fi-Ber Driver
Mark Zak as Blackjack Benelli
Willy as Chim Chim
Kenzie as Chim Chim
Julia Joyce as Blonde Pack Leader
Clayton Nemrow as Race Announcer
Ricky Watson as Race Commentator
Brandon Robinson as Big Mouth
L. Trey Wilson as Press Man
Lauren Blake as Flight Attendant
Waldemar Kobus as Vinny - Cruncher Thug
Max Hopp as Cruncher Thug
Julie T. Wallace as Truck Driver
Matthias Redlhammer as Marvin the Cleaning Man
Eckehard Hoffmann as Joel Goldman
Stephen Marcus as Security Goon
Art LaFleur as Fuji Announcer
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo as Fuji Announcer
Paul Sirr as Dour Face
Kadý Taylor as Queen of Casa Cristo
Junior Sone Enang as Shark Driver
Jana Pallaske as Delila
Dari Maximova as Flying Fox
Werner Daehn as Sempre Fi-Ber Leader
Komi Togbonou as Thor-Azine Leader
Leila Rozario as Hydro-Cell Driver
Steven Wilson as C.I.B. Security Man
Togo Igawa as Mr. Togokahn
Jonathan Kinsler as Fuji Reporter
Anatole Taubman as Fuji Reporter
Frank Witter as Security Official
Megan Gay as Senior Race Official
Corinne Orr as Grand Prix Female Announcer
Joe Mazza as Nitro
Ludmilla Ismailow as Denise
Milka Duno as Gearbox
Amira Osman as Count Down Tower Woman
Ashley Walters as Prince Kabala
Jens Neuhaus as German Announcer
Sesede Terziyan as Turkish Announcer
Ill-Young Kim as Korean Announcer
Yuriri Naka as Japanese Announcer
Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Spanish Announcer
Fang Yu as Chinese Announcer
Narges Rashidi as Persian Announcer
Andrés Cantor as Grand Prix Announcer

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 7 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 11% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 325

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 7	12	10
8 to 14	0	19
15 to 21	0	9
22 to 28	10	19
29 to 35	0	16
36 to 42	0	4
43 to 49	5	15
50 to 56	10	57
57 to 63	0	16
64 to 70	8	51
71 to 77	3	21
78 to 84	14	54
85 to 91	2	24
92 to 98	0	8
99 to 105	0	8
106 to 112	0	12
113 to 119	15	52
120 to 126	8	23
127 to 133	7	8
134 to 140	2	17
141 to 147	1	12
148 to 154	1	1
155 to 161	1	24
162 to 168	3	24
169 to 175	5	29
176 to 182	4	5
183 to 189	0	14
190 to 196	0	5
197 to 203	7	16
204 to 210	0	9
211 to 217	5	22
218 to 224	2	30
225 to 231	0	7
232 to 238	0	13
239 to 245	10	86
246 to 252	0	0
253 to 259	0	18
260 to 266	2	19
267 to 273	0	16
274 to 280	1	17
281 to 287	0	13
288 to 294	0	12
295 to 301	0	10
302 to 308	0	6
309 to 315	0	6
316 to 322	0	5
323 to 325	1	9

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.

HORUKO: Thank you so much. TRIXIE: It was a blast.

TRIXIE: We were worried about you. HORUKO: I would say good luck Saturday but you do not need it. You are already very lucky to have such a family.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 14 are women's.

139 lines from women, 871 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

17 women and 52 men in the cast. 9 women and 36 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 108 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 13% of the words (2,038), men 87% (13,359). Women have 14% 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

9 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: Lana Wachowski (woman), Lilly Wachowski (woman)
Written by: Lilly Wachowski (woman), Lana Wachowski (woman)
Produced by: Lana Wachowski (woman), Grant Hill (man), Joel Silver (man), Lilly Wachowski (woman)
Shot by: David Tattersall (man)
Edited by: Roger Barton (man), Zach Staenberg (man)
Music by: Michael Giacchino (man)
Production design by: Owen Paterson (man)
Costumes by: Kym Barrett (woman)
Cast by: Lora Kennedy (woman), Lucinda Syson (woman)