Passes the Bechdel test

Stargate

Name: Stargate
Released: 1994

1994. Directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 159.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

In 1928, in Egypt, a strange device is found by an expedition. In the present days, the outcast linguist Dr. Daniel Jackson is invited by a mysterious woman to decipher an ancient hieroglyph in a military facility. Soon he finds that the device was developed by an advanced civilization and opens a portal to teletransport to another planet. Dr. Jackson is invited to join a military team under the command of Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil that will explore the new world. They find a land that recalls Egypt and humans in a primitive culture that worship and are slaves to Ra, the God of the Sun. But soon they discover the secret of the mysterious "stargate".

Released: 28 Oct 1994
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7 / 10
Metascore: 42 / 100
Awards: 6 wins & 6 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Daniel 141 lines, man
O'Neil 72 lines, man
Kawalsky 51 lines, man
Catherine 38 lines, woman
Dantel 21 lines
Feretti 18 lines, man
Meyers 16 lines, man
Ra 15 lines, man
General West 12 lines, man
Shore 12 lines, woman

Full cast, 41 people

James Spader as Dr. Daniel Jackson
Kurt Russell as Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil
Jaye Davidson as Ra
Viveca Lindfors as Catherine
Alexis Cruz as Skaara
Mili Avital as Sha'uri
Erick Avari as Kasuf
John Diehl as Lieutenant Kawalsky
Djimon Hounsou as Horus
Carlos Lauchu as Anubis
Leon Rippy as General W.O. West
French Stewart as Lieutenant Ferretti
Derek Webster as Brown
Christopher John Fields as Freeman
Gianin Loffler as Nabeh
Frank Welker as Mastadge (voice)
Rae Allen as Barbara Shore
Richard Kind as Gary Meyers
Jack Moore as Reilly
Steve Giannelli as Porro
David Pressman as Assistant Lieutenant
Scott Alan Smith as Officer
Cecil Hoffman as Sarah O'Neil
John Storey as Mitch
Lee Taylor-Allan as Jenny
George Gray as Technician
Kelly Vint Castro as Young Catherine Langford
Erik Holland as Professor Langford
Nick Wilder as Taylor
Sayed Badreya as Arabic Interpreter
Michael Concepcion as Horus Guard #1
Jerry Gilmore as Horus Guard #2
Michel Jean-Philippe as Horus Guard #3
Dialy N'Daiye as Horus Guard #4
Gladys Holland as Professor
Roger Til as Professor
Kenneth Danziger as Professor
Christopher West as Professor
Robert Ackerman as Companion
Kairon John as Masked Ra
Dax Biagas as Young Ra

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 159

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	0
5 to 8	0	3
9 to 12	10	19
13 to 16	4	2
17 to 20	0	0
21 to 24	11	28
25 to 28	3	4
29 to 32	25	37
33 to 36	2	14
37 to 40	0	2
41 to 44	0	0
45 to 48	0	6
49 to 52	0	5
53 to 56	0	60
57 to 60	0	8
61 to 64	0	12
65 to 68	0	0
69 to 72	0	12
73 to 76	0	15
77 to 80	0	24
81 to 84	0	12
85 to 88	0	13
89 to 92	0	3
93 to 96	0	3
97 to 100	0	10
101 to 104	0	5
105 to 108	0	20
109 to 112	0	14
113 to 116	0	4
117 to 120	0	0
121 to 124	0	5
125 to 128	0	5
129 to 132	0	10
133 to 136	0	5
137 to 140	0	2
141 to 144	0	0
145 to 148	0	2
149 to 152	0	1
153 to 156	0	7
157 to 159	0	10

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.

CATHERINE: This 1S as far as we've ever been able to get. They turn back towards the StarGate just as the Seventh Symbol is matched up. Everyone in the… SHORE: It's guiding itself. Can you beiieve this?! Technicians sash to deal with all the input. Shore turos around to SEB... SHORE: My God, the peam nas lockea onto a point on the other side of our Galaxy!

CATHERINE: It's encrypted digitally and compressed. It will take a few minutes to decode it. Shore adjust the console in front of her. SHORE: Signal'’s growing weaker.

CATHERINE: That's wnat this was all about. SHORE: Well, let's see it!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 13 are women's.

55 lines from women, 382 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

8 women and 26 men in the cast. 3 women and 15 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 23 of 520. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 323 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 12% of the words (941), men 88% (6,670). Women have 13% 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

1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Roland Emmerich (man)
Written by: Roland Emmerich (man), Dean Devlin (man)
Produced by: Joel B. Michaels (man), Dean Devlin (man), Oliver Eberle (gender not listed)
Shot by: Karl Walter Lindenlaub (man)
Edited by: Michael J. Duthie (man), Derek Brechin (man)
Music by: David Arnold (man)
Production design by: Holger Gross (man)
Costumes by: Joseph A. Porro (man)
Cast by: April Webster (woman)