Passes the Bechdel test

The Prophecy

Name: The Prophecy
Released: 1995

1995. Directed by Gregory Widen, written by Gregory Widen.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
6 women characters. 5 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 5 scenes out of 77.
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

At the scene of a bizarre murder, L.A. homicide detective Thomas Dagget discovers a lethal heavenly prophecy now being fulfilled on earth. Yet in his fight to stop the forces of evil, led by the powerful angel Gabriel, Dagget finds an unlikely ally in an elementary school teacher. Together they race against time and terror to save the world as we know it.

Released: 01 Sep 1995
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 44 / 100
Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Daggett 264 lines, man
Katherine 199 lines, woman
Gabriel 137 lines, man
Mary 46 lines, woman
John 34 lines, man
Simon 34 lines, man
Coroner 28 lines
Jerry 28 lines, man
Sheriff 25 lines
Lucifer 24 lines, man

Full cast, 20 people

Christopher Walken as Gabriel
Elias Koteas as Thomas Daggett
Virginia Madsen as Katherine Henley
Eric Stoltz as Simon
Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer
Amanda Plummer as Rachael
Moriah 'Shining Dove' Snyder as Mary
Adam Goldberg as Jerry
Steve Hytner as Joseph
J.C. Quinn as Burrows
Emily Conforto as Sandra
Shawn Nelson as Indian Healer
Patrick McAllister as Colonel Arnold Hawthorne
Emma Shenah as Grandmother
Sioux-z Jessup as Nurse
Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Madge
Nick Gomez as Jason
Jeff Cadiente as Uziel
Clark Hunter as Psycho Killer (uncredited)
Albert Nelson as Grey Horse

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 77

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Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	27
3 to 4	8	15
5 to 6	0	2
7 to 8	0	17
9 to 10	11	14
11 to 12	5	2
13 to 14	8	0
15 to 16	0	0
17 to 18	12	40
19 to 20	0	16
21 to 22	0	3
23 to 24	0	2
25 to 26	29	13
27 to 28	3	3
29 to 30	0	13
31 to 32	0	10
33 to 34	0	29
35 to 36	0	31
37 to 38	0	0
39 to 40	0	2
41 to 42	0	6
43 to 44	5	0
45 to 46	0	6
47 to 48	0	3
49 to 50	18	18
51 to 52	0	12
53 to 54	8	10
55 to 56	2	10
57 to 58	9	17
59 to 60	11	17
61 to 62	29	13
63 to 64	13	17
65 to 66	9	8
67 to 68	9	21
69 to 70	1	3
71 to 72	3	8
73 to 74	42	58
75 to 76	5	8
77 to 77	24	77

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.

KATHERINE: Hey bright eyes, what's the deal being out here all alone without a coat? MARY: Someone's here. KATHERINE: Where? MARY: Pig out on all the cake?

KATHERINE: Uh... Okay. Everybody satisfied? Cow Demon? MARY: I got one! I got one! KATHERINE: Easy... Easy... Don't break it.

MARY: They don't bleed. Not the way you and I do. Or maybe it was just the cold... MARY: I've killed them, you know. Lots. You could always tell when they were coming. There'd be the trumpets first. Every note flat. Then those so… MARY: It scares me, Miss Henley. I hate it. Please, make it stop! MARY: Make it stop!

MARY: Hi, Miss Henley. KATHERINE: Hi, pumpkin. Good morning. KATHERINE: How's the head?

KATHERINE: Are you all right, pumpkin? MARY: I'm okay. KATHERINE: It's going to be okay... We're all going to be okay... KATHERINE: I can't quite bring myself to say thank you.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 32 are women's.

264 lines from women, 551 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 12 men in the cast. 5 women and 7 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 45 of 974. 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 30% of the words (2,157), men 70% (4,977). Women have 32% 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

Two men

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: Gregory Widen (man)
Written by: Gregory Widen (man)
Produced by: Joel Soisson (man)
Shot by: Richard Clabaugh (man), Bruce Douglas Johnson (man)
Edited by: Sonny Baskin (man)
Music by: David C. Williams (man)
Production design by: Clark Hunter (man)
Costumes by: Dana Allyson (gender not listed)
Cast by: Don Phillips (man)

The crew, department by department

Costume & Make-Up

0 women, 3 men, 8 not listed
Other crew

3 women, 6 men
Sound

0 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
Production

0 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
Art

0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
Camera

0 women, 2 men
Directing

0 women, 2 men
Editing

0 women, 1 men

Women
Men
Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 28 on average. Men: 38 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Moriah 'Shining Dove' Snyder 12, Virginia Madsen 33, Amanda Plummer 38

Men

Adam Goldberg 24, Eric Stoltz 33, Elias Koteas 34, Steve Hytner 35, Viggo Mortensen 36, Christopher Walken 52, J.C. Quinn 54

Exhibit H: the money

It made 2.0 times what it cost.

Budget: $8 million
Box office: $16.1 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 77 scenes and 974 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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