Passes the Bechdel test
The Hummingbird Project
2019. Directed by Kim Nguyen, written by Kim Nguyen.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
18 women characters. 8 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 110. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game. No matter what the cost, Vincent and Anton are determined to cut through America, only to find redemption at the end of their line, not through money, but through family and reconnecting to the land.
- Released
- 22 Mar 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 58 / 100
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Vincent 393 lines, man
- Anton 207 lines, man
- Mark 132 lines, man
- Linda Raulston 86 lines, woman
- Ophelia 59 lines, woman
- Amish Elder 31 lines, man
- Laetitia 29 lines
- Bryan Taylor 28 lines, man
- Jenny 22 lines, woman
- Barmaid 20 lines
Full cast, 60 people
- Jesse Eisenberg as Vincent Zaleski
- Alexander Skarsgård as Anton Zaleski
- Salma Hayek Pinault as Eva Torres
- Michael Mando as Mark Vega
- Johan Heldenbergh as Amish Elder
- Ayisha Issa as Ophelia Troller
- Kaniehtiio Horn as Barbara Lehman
- Mark Slacke as Tasso Casilieris
- Sarah Goldberg as Mascha
- Frank Schorpion as Bryan Taylor
- Kwasi Songui as Ray
- Conrad Pla as Agent Santana
- Julian Bailey as Elliot
- Jessica Greco as Dr. Bloom
- Bruce Dinsmore as Contractor #1
- Robert Reynolds as KAX House Owner
- Anna Maguire as Jenny
- Ryan Ali as Elias
- Amanda Silveira as Amy
- Anton Koval as Scott
- Adam Bernett as High Frequency Trader #1
- Trinity Forrest as Katia Zaleski
- Nicolas Fransolet as Didier Gerbash
- Christian Jadah as FBI Agent #3 / Emergency Doctor
- Tyler Elliot Burke as Tommy
- Clara Nicolas as Olena Zaleski
- Bobo Vian as Anna Zaleski
- Igor Ovadis as Leon Zaleski
- Bonnie Mak as Massage Therapist
- Daniel Jun as Jimmy Tran
- Jonathan Dubsky as Mr. Simon
- André Simoneau as Contractor #3
- Michel Perron as Contractor #4
- Jonah Carson as Amish Son
- Chimwemwe Miller as FBI Agent #1
- Shawn Campbell as FBI Agent #2
- Natalie Darbyson as Cleaning Woman
- Stéphanie McKenna as Nurse #1
- Anne Day-Jones as Nurse #2
- Erika Rosenbaum as Receptionist
- Juliette Gosselin as Young Amish Woman
- Derek Johns as High Frequency Trader #3
- Chris Cavener as High Frequency Trader #4
- Jude Beny as Milena Zaleski
- Raphael Grosz-Harvey as Gary
- Ezra Fama de Smit as Trailer HQ Assistant
- Stephanie Costa as Trailer HQ Assistant
- Alyson Leah as Quant #1
- David Noël as Quant #2
- Alex Nazar as Suburb Man
- John Koensgen as Amish Man
- Alex Weiner as Careless Trader
- George Chiang as Waiter
- Alexandre Gorchkov as Family Uncle
- Tanya van Blokland as Family Aunt
- Jack Britton as Cousin #1
- Harriette Legault as Cousin #2
- Aladeen Tawfeek as Airport Taxi Driver
- Stéfanie Buxton as Stewardess
- Melantha Blackthorne as Suburb Woman (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 110
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 45 |
| 4 to 6 | 2 | 26 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 to 12 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 to 15 | 17 | 26 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 32 |
| 19 to 21 | 14 | 10 |
| 22 to 24 | 21 | 32 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 42 |
| 28 to 30 | 2 | 2 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 60 |
| 34 to 36 | 12 | 22 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 12 |
| 40 to 42 | 13 | 20 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 14 |
| 46 to 48 | 25 | 45 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 25 |
| 52 to 54 | 11 | 16 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 21 |
| 58 to 60 | 20 | 22 |
| 61 to 63 | 1 | 36 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 17 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 15 |
| 70 to 72 | 16 | 13 |
| 73 to 75 | 3 | 2 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 72 |
| 79 to 81 | 10 | 24 |
| 82 to 84 | 3 | 2 |
| 85 to 87 | 6 | 30 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 6 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 15 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 31 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 102 | 7 | 12 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 64 |
| 106 to 108 | 17 | 28 |
| 109 to 110 | 0 | 50 |
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.
LINDA RAULSTON: Why is it pointless? JENNY: Because we’re years away from getting the right pulse shaping algorithms, and that means that by the time we get ‘em right we’re going to ge… LINDA RAULSTON: Huh... Okay, Laser Towers. I love it. JENNY: Short term I think we should put our efforts on getting an exclusive fiber deal between Harrisburg and Allentown that way we can skip the de…
LINDA RAULSTON: They’re building a straight fiber optic tunnel from the BATS exchange in Kansas to the fucking New York Stock Exchange. If they get this thi… LINDA RAULSTON: I’m gonna hurt them... I don’t know how, but I’m gonna grind them to the ground... LINDA RAULSTON: Get our quants down here... LINDA RAULSTON: I need you to get the microwave towers to work... I don’t care how you do it but just get it fucking working. Get me the pulsing thing...
LINDA RAULSTON: Holy shit it’s working. We’re the fastest. JENNY: We just made five hundred thousand dollars in thirty seconds... Five fifty...
LINDA RAULSTON: This is insane... JENNY: I know, right? LINDA RAULSTON: It’s really insane. Insanity. JENNY: Are you all’right Linda?
JENNY: Linda, we have a problem. Our line is twenty milliseconds slow. LINDA RAULSTON: What do you mean, it’s “twenty seconds slow”?? The whole system is congested or... JENNY: It’s a perfect, constant, twenty millisecond delay. It’s not arbitrary. It’s a sharp chunk. Somebody rigged our network. Linda takes it in, …
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 18 are women's.
201 lines from women, 898 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
18 women and 33 men in the cast. 8 women and 26 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 75 of 1,218.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 90 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 20% of the words (2,923), men 80% (11,343). Women have 18% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
8
Two men
52
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Kim Nguyen (man)
- Written by
- Kim Nguyen (man)
- Produced by
- Pierre Even (man)
- Shot by
- Nicolas Bolduc (man)
- Edited by
- Nicolas Chaudeurge (man), Arthur Tarnowski (man)
- Music by
- Yves Gourmeur (man)
- Production design by
- Emmanuel Fréchette (man)
- Costumes by
- Valérie Lévesque (woman)
- Cast by
- Andrea Kenyon (woman), Heidi Levitt (woman), Randi Wells (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
8 women, 12 men, 8 not listed
-
Sound
0 women, 12 men, 10 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 1 men, 16 not listed
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Art
3 women, 4 men, 11 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 2 men, 12 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 2 men, 11 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 1 men, 5 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 38 on average. Men: 42 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kaniehtiio Horn 32, Sarah Goldberg 33, Ayisha Issa 34, Salma Hayek Pinault 52
Men
Jesse Eisenberg 35, Michael Mando 37, Alexander Skarsgård 42, Johan Heldenbergh 52
Exhibit H: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- Not listed
- Box office
- $876,980
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 110 scenes and 1,218 lines of dialogue. How the test works
