Fails the Bechdel test
The Maze Runner
2014. Directed by Wes Ball, written by Noah Oppenheim and Grant Pierce Myers and T.S. Nowlin.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
Awakening in an elevator, remembering nothing of his past, Thomas emerges into a world of about thirty teenage boys, all without past memories, who have learned to survive under their own set of rules in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies. With a new boy arriving every thirty days, the group has been in "The Glade" for three years, trying to find a way to escape through the Maze that surrounds their living space (patrolled by cyborg monsters named 'Grievers'). They have begun to give up hope when a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change with the boys dividing into two factions: those willing to risk their lives to escape and those wanting to hang onto what they've got and survive.
- Released
- 19 Sep 2014
- Genres
- Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.8 / 10
- Metascore
- 57 / 100
- Awards
- 4 wins & 12 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Thomas 214 lines, man
- Minho 120 lines, man
- Theresa 73 lines, woman
- Alby 64 lines, man
- Gally 59 lines, man
- Chuck 44 lines, man
- Newt 24 lines, man
- Clint 12 lines, man
- Woman 11 lines, woman
- Zack 10 lines, man
Full cast, 58 people
- Dylan O'Brien as Thomas
- Kaya Scodelario as Teresa Agnes
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt
- Ki Hong Lee as Minho
- Will Poulter as Gally
- Aml Ameen as Alby
- Patricia Clarkson as Ava Paige
- Blake Cooper as Chuck
- Dexter Darden as Frypan
- Jacob Latimore as Jeff
- Chris Sheffield as Ben
- Joe Adler as Zart
- Randall D. Cunningham as Clint
- Alexander Flores as Winston
- Don McManus as Masked Man
- Michael Bow as Glader
- Jerry Clark as Glader
- Michael Deville as Glader
- Dylan Gaspard as Glader
- Cory Gooding as Glader
- Cazi Greene as Glader
- Dustin Guitreau as Glader
- Tyler Harrison as Glader
- Landon Hazel as Glader
- Gary Hood as Glader
- Nick Killebrew as Glader
- John Langston as Glader
- Chad Martinez as Glader
- Lester Millet as Glader
- Sawyer Pierce as Glader
- Weston Rachal as Glader
- Bryce Romero as Glader
- Johnny Stockwell as Glader
- SanChavis Torns as Glader
- Lane Westerhaus as Glader
- Gentry Williams as Glader
- Adriana Acosta as Glader (uncredited)
- Duane Cothren as Conference Room Parent (uncredited)
- James Dashner as Lab Tech (uncredited)
- Mark Gibson as Glader (Alec) (uncredited)
- Darryl Harvey as Maze Control Room Supervisor / EMT (uncredited)
- Janet L'Aube as Lab Scientist (uncredited)
- Travis Michael Myers as Glader (uncredited)
- Zach Nichols as Glader (uncredited)
- Tommy Sheppard as Conference Room Member (uncredited)
- Andrew Varenhorst as Patient Zero (uncredited)
- Carol Jean Wells as Herself Lab Student (uncredited)
- Jeff Wiesen as Glader (uncredited)
- Adrian Acosta as Glader (uncredited)
- Jacob Deville as Dan (uncredited)
- Sheldon Maurer as Glader (uncredited)
- Seth Nichols as Lab tech Student / Glader (uncredited)
- Gustavo I. Ortiz as Rebel Soldier (uncredited)
- McKenna Pippen as Lab Tech Student (uncredited)
- Giovanni Silva as Lab Tech #7
- Nicolas Stan as Child (uncredited)
- Tony Vo as Glader (uncredited)
- Kin-Lam Chan as Glader (Jim) (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 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 155
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 30 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 29 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 14 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 20 |
| 17 to 20 | 1 | 31 |
| 21 to 24 | 3 | 27 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 43 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 2 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 17 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 12 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 11 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 18 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 8 |
| 53 to 56 | 4 | 27 |
| 57 to 60 | 6 | 23 |
| 61 to 64 | 4 | 25 |
| 65 to 68 | 18 | 30 |
| 69 to 72 | 4 | 11 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 to 80 | 0 | 1 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 2 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 5 |
| 89 to 92 | 1 | 16 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 4 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 2 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 3 |
| 105 to 108 | 5 | 4 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 0 |
| 113 to 116 | 1 | 1 |
| 117 to 120 | 3 | 43 |
| 121 to 124 | 7 | 14 |
| 125 to 128 | 2 | 2 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 1 |
| 133 to 136 | 4 | 31 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 5 |
| 141 to 144 | 1 | 8 |
| 145 to 148 | 3 | 5 |
| 149 to 152 | 4 | 22 |
| 153 to 155 | 17 | 35 |
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, 13 are women's.
88 lines from women, 582 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
4 women and 24 men in the cast. 0 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 121 of 686.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 128 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 13% of the words (848), men 87% (5,768).
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
0
Two men
67
Exhibit E: behind the camera
6 of the 18 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 31% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Wes Ball (man)
- Written by
- Grant Pierce Myers (gender not listed), Noah Oppenheim (man), T.S. Nowlin (man)
- From the novel by
- James Dashner (man)
- Produced by
- Lindsay Williams (woman), Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (woman), Lee Stollman (man), Marty Bowen (man), Wyck Godfrey (man)
- Shot by
- Enrique Chediak (man)
- Edited by
- Dan Zimmerman (man)
- Music by
- John Paesano (man)
- Production design by
- Marc Fisichella (man)
- Costumes by
- Simonetta Mariano (woman), Christine Bieselin Clark (woman)
- Cast by
- Denise Chamian (woman), Priscilla John (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
4 women, 13 men, 17 not listed
-
Sound
7 women, 15 men, 5 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 6 men, 17 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
5 women, 0 men, 8 not listed
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Production
4 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
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Visual Effects
2 women, 5 men, 3 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 5 men, 1 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 38 on average. Men: 22 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kaya Scodelario 22, Patricia Clarkson 54
Men
Blake Cooper 13, Jacob Latimore 18, Will Poulter 21, Dylan O'Brien 23, Dexter Darden 23, Thomas Brodie-Sangster 24, Ki Hong Lee 27, Aml Ameen 29
Exhibit G: the money
It made 10.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $34 million
- Box office
- $348 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 155 scenes and 686 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
