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The Crow: City of Angels

1996. Directed by Tim Pope, written by James O'Barr and David S. Goyer.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    6 women characters. 4 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 2 scenes out of 117.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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Poster for The Crow: City of Angels

The film

Some time ago, Ashe Corven and his son Danny were killed when they stumbled across a pack of drug dealers murdering a fellow dealer. The dealers work for Los Angeles drug kingpin Judah Earl. Local tattoo artist Sarah, who has great knowledge of the crow legend because of what happened with her late friend Eric Draven, has been having dreams about Ashe and Danny. One night when a crow leads her to the scene of the murders of Ashe and Danny, Ashe appears before her. The crow has resurrected Ashe, so Ashe can go after Judah and his right hand man Curve. With the guidance of the crow, Ashe starts killing off Judah's men one by one, on his way to Judah.

Released
30 Aug 1996
Genres
Action, Crime, Fantasy
Rated
R
IMDb
4.6 / 10
Awards
2 wins & 3 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Ashe 104 lines, man
  2. Sarah 74 lines, woman
  3. Judah 51 lines, man
  4. Curve 34 lines, man
  5. Sibyl 18 lines, woman
  6. Kali 17 lines, woman
  7. Spider Monkey 14 lines, man
  8. The Crow 14 lines, man
  9. Nemo 13 lines, man
  10. Noah 12 lines, man
Full cast, 25 people
  • Vincent Perez as Ashe Corven / The Crow
  • Mia Kirshner as Sarah
  • Iggy Pop as Curve
  • Thomas Jane as Nemo
  • Richard Brooks as Judah Earl
  • Thuy Trang as Kali
  • Vincent Castellanos as Spider Monkey
  • Tracey Ellis as Sybil
  • Beverley Mitchell as Grace
  • Alan Gelfant as Bassett
  • Shelly Desai as Hindu
  • Holley Chant as Holly Daze
  • Ian Dury as Noah
  • Kerry Rossall as Zeke
  • Eric Acosta as Danny
  • Aaron Thell Smith as Tattoo Customer
  • Chino Moreno as Self / Deftones
  • Stephen Carpenter as Self / Deftones
  • Chi Cheng as Self / Deftones
  • Abe Cunningham as Self / Deftones
  • Reynaldo Duran as Priest
  • Danny Verduzco as Boy in Church
  • Maria Julia Moran as Old Lady in Church
  • Kira Tashjian as Woman (uncredited)
  • Gorja Max as Fire Eater (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 117

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 3319
4 to 632
7 to 920
10 to 121720
13 to 1510
16 to 1822
19 to 2126
22 to 2400
25 to 2701
28 to 3002
31 to 3330
34 to 3613
37 to 3900
40 to 4208
43 to 45725
46 to 4823
49 to 51516
52 to 54217
55 to 57110
58 to 601521
61 to 6313
64 to 6653
67 to 6904
70 to 7203
73 to 75111
76 to 7803
79 to 8143
82 to 841416
85 to 8712
88 to 9003
91 to 9301
94 to 9611
97 to 9902
100 to 102124
103 to 10543
106 to 108312
109 to 11176
112 to 11474
115 to 11710

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: Gotta name? GRACE: Grace. So what? SARAH: Listen, Grace, how does some hot coffee sound? Maybe a little food? GRACE: What do you want?
GRACE: Well, see ya. SARAH: I believe there's a place where the restless souls wanter...

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 31 are women's.

116 lines from women, 259 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 15 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 2 of 382. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 24 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 27% of the words (957), men 73% (2,621). Women have 31% 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

None of the 10 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 12% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Tim Pope (man)
Written by
David S. Goyer (man)
Produced by
Jeff Most (man), Edward R. Pressman (man)
Shot by
Jean-Yves Escoffier (man)
Edited by
Anthony Redman (man), Michael N. Knue (man)
Music by
Graeme Revell (man)
Production design by
Alex McDowell (man)
Costumes by
Kirsten Everberg (gender not listed)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    2 women, 11 men

  • Costume & Make-Up

    2 women, 3 men, 3 not listed

  • Production

    0 women, 6 men, 1 not listed

  • Art

    1 women, 4 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 3 men

  • Editing

    0 women, 3 men

  • Sound

    0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed

  • Directing

    0 women, 2 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 19 on average. Men: 36 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Beverley Mitchell 15, Mia Kirshner 21, Thuy Trang 22

Men

Thomas Jane 27, Vincent Perez 32, Richard Brooks 33, Vincent Castellanos 34, Alan Gelfant 39, Iggy Pop 49

Exhibit H: the money

It made 1.9 times what it cost.

Budget
$13 million
Box office
$25.3 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 117 scenes and 382 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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