Passes the Bechdel test
Sunshine
2007. Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 101. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind's last hope.
- Released
- 27 Jul 2007
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 64 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 23 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Capa 100 lines, man
- Mace 92 lines, man
- Asher 47 lines, man
- Cassie 40 lines, woman
- Icarus 39 lines, woman
- Searle 34 lines, man
- Harvey 33 lines, man
- Corazon 25 lines, woman
- Pinbacker 16 lines, man
- Trey 14 lines, man
Full cast, 14 people
- Cillian Murphy as Capa
- Rose Byrne as Cassie
- Chris Evans as Mace
- Michelle Yeoh as Corazon
- Cliff Curtis as Searle
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Kaneda
- Troy Garity as Harvey
- Benedict Wong as Trey
- Mark Strong as Pinbacker
- Paloma Baeza as Capa's Sister
- Archie Macdonald as Child
- Sylvie Macdonald as Child
- Chipo Chung as Icarus (voice)
- Kevin Hudson as Crew, Icarus I (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 101
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 to 9 | 6 | 21 |
| 10 to 12 | 8 | 5 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 20 |
| 16 to 18 | 15 | 54 |
| 19 to 21 | 2 | 3 |
| 22 to 24 | 6 | 27 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 7 |
| 28 to 30 | 7 | 15 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 7 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 3 |
| 37 to 39 | 7 | 10 |
| 40 to 42 | 11 | 10 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 11 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 4 |
| 49 to 51 | 2 | 7 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 6 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 4 |
| 58 to 60 | 4 | 5 |
| 61 to 63 | 1 | 1 |
| 64 to 66 | 1 | 8 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 18 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 to 75 | 4 | 6 |
| 76 to 78 | 2 | 1 |
| 79 to 81 | 14 | 19 |
| 82 to 84 | 6 | 2 |
| 85 to 87 | 2 | 1 |
| 88 to 90 | 3 | 15 |
| 91 to 93 | 4 | 13 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 27 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 101 | 0 | 8 |
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.
CASSIE: Icarus - override computer control -t;.o manual. ICARUS: Negative.
CASSIE: Okay. We're locked on. Icarus, please establish contact with Icarus I computer system. ICARUS: Contact failed. Computer system of ' Icarus I has been disabled. • CASSIE: How? A malfunction or an accident? Has it been deliberately shut down? ICARUS: Reasons unknown. Impossible to establish the cause remotely.
CORAZON: God damn. CASSIE: They're all dead.
CASSIE: Icarus! Stabilise us! ICARUS: Affirmative, Cassie. CASSIE: The airlock has just decoupled. Get down there NOW!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 23 are women's.
105 lines from women, 343 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 8 men in the cast. 4 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 8 of 455.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 40 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 (1,185), men 79% (4,340). Women have 23% 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
7
Two men
32
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 10 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Danny Boyle (man)
- Written by
- Alex Garland (man)
- Produced by
- Andrew Macdonald (man)
- Shot by
- Alwin H. Küchler (man)
- Edited by
- Chris Gill (man)
- Music by
- John Murphy (man)
- Production design by
- Mark Tildesley (man)
- Costumes by
- Suttirat Anne Larlarb (woman)
- Cast by
- Gail Stevens (woman), Donna Isaacson (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
1 women, 23 men, 82 not listed
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Other crew
6 women, 20 men, 40 not listed
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Art
6 women, 18 men, 26 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 9 men, 15 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 18 men, 5 not listed
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Production
5 women, 4 men, 10 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
5 women, 4 men, 8 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 1 men, 13 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Rose Byrne 27, Paloma Baeza 31, Michelle Yeoh 44
Men
Chris Evans 25, Cillian Murphy 30, Troy Garity 33, Benedict Wong 35, Cliff Curtis 38, Mark Strong 43, Hiroyuki Sanada 46
Exhibit H: the money
It made 70% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $34.8 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 101 scenes and 455 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
