Fails the Bechdel test

The Hateful Eight

Name: The Hateful Eight
Released: 2015

2015. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, written by Quentin Tarantino.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
4 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

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The film

Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (an infamous bounty hunter) and Chris Mannix (a man who claims to be Red Rock's new sheriff). Lost in a blizzard, the bunch seeks refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery. When they arrive they are greeted by unfamiliar faces: Bob, who claims to be taking care of the place while Minnie is gone; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; Joe Gage, a cow puncher; and confederate general Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travelers come to learn that they might not make it to Red Rock after all...

Released: 30 Dec 2015
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.8 / 10
Metascore: 68 / 100
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 46 wins & 116 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

John Ruth 194 lines, man
Chris 154 lines, man
Maj .Warren 78 lines, man
Domergue 53 lines, woman
Jody 46 lines, man
Oswaldo 44 lines, man
Bob 40 lines, man
Maj . Warren 38 lines, man
Minnie 21 lines, woman
Joe Gage 20 lines, man

Full cast, 18 people

Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren
Kurt Russell as John 'The Hangman' Ruth
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue
Walton Goggins as Sheriff Chris Mannix
Demián Bichir as Bob
Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray
Michael Madsen as Joe Gage
Bruce Dern as General Sandy Smithers
James Parks as O. B. Jackson
Dana Gourrier as Minnie
Zoë Bell as 'Six-Horse' Judy
Lee Horsley as Ed
Gene Jones as Sweet Dave
Keith Jefferson as Charly
Craig Stark as Chester Charles Smithers
Belinda Owino as Gemma
Channing Tatum as Jody
Quentin Tarantino as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 40

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 1	0	0
2 to 2	0	0
3 to 3	4	51
4 to 4	0	0
5 to 5	0	9
6 to 6	3	34
7 to 7	4	30
8 to 8	0	6
9 to 9	0	1
10 to 10	0	33
11 to 11	0	12
12 to 12	2	32
13 to 13	0	0
14 to 14	0	9
15 to 15	0	2
16 to 16	1	14
17 to 17	4	51
18 to 18	0	0
19 to 19	0	5
20 to 20	3	42
21 to 21	0	1
22 to 22	0	43
23 to 23	0	19
24 to 24	0	58
25 to 25	2	60
26 to 26	3	87
27 to 27	0	7
28 to 28	0	6
29 to 29	0	6
30 to 30	6	61
31 to 31	13	8
32 to 32	20	29
33 to 33	0	0
34 to 34	0	29
35 to 35	0	0
36 to 36	0	10
37 to 37	0	11
38 to 38	0	5
39 to 39	1	20
40 to 40	21	73

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 9 are women's.

87 lines from women, 864 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

4 women and 14 men in the cast. 4 women and 64 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 33 of 1,049. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 192 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 10% of the words (1,761), men 90% (15,464). Women have 9% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit D: 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 E: behind the camera

4 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino (man)
Written by: Quentin Tarantino (man)
Produced by: Richard N. Gladstein (man), Shannon McIntosh (woman), Stacey Sher (woman)
Shot by: Robert Richardson (man)
Edited by: Fred Raskin (man)
Music by: Ennio Morricone (man)
Production design by: Yohei Taneda (man)
Costumes by: Courtney Hoffman (woman)
Cast by: Victoria Thomas (woman)