Passes the Bechdel test

The Ruins

Name: The Ruins
Released: 2008

2008. Directed by Carter Smith, written by Scott B. Smith.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
4 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 6 scenes out of 78.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Released: 04 Apr 2008
Genres: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.9 / 10
Metascore: 44 / 100
Awards: 7 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jeff 344 lines, man
Amy 184 lines, woman
Stacy 173 lines, woman
Eric 135 lines, man
Mathias 35 lines, man
Any 13 lines
Doctor 11 lines
Driver 7 lines
Stacy-- 4 lines, woman
Mathias Stacy 3 lines, woman

Full cast, 16 people

Jonathan Tucker as Jeff McIntire
Jena Malone as Amy
Shawn Ashmore as Eric
Laura Ramsey as Stacy
Joe Anderson as Mathias
Sergio Calderón as Lead Mayan
Jesse Ramirez as Mayan Bowman
Balder Moreno as Mayan Horseman
Dimitri Baveas as Dimitri
Patricio Almeida Rodriguez as Taxi Driver
Mario Jurado as Mayan Archer
Luis Antonio Ramos as Mayan Rifleman
Bar Paly as Archeologist
Jordan Patrick Smith as Heinrich
Karen Strassman as Additional Vine Vocal (voice)
Robert Munns as Groundskeeper (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 78

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	22	23
3 to 4	0	0
5 to 6	1	16
7 to 8	6	19
9 to 10	0	18
11 to 12	11	16
13 to 14	1	17
15 to 16	12	11
17 to 18	25	27
19 to 20	6	16
21 to 22	2	7
23 to 24	5	8
25 to 26	27	34
27 to 28	11	13
29 to 30	8	11
31 to 32	21	21
33 to 34	28	12
35 to 36	4	0
37 to 38	1	8
39 to 40	6	13
41 to 42	3	6
43 to 44	6	2
45 to 46	7	9
47 to 48	5	3
49 to 50	13	42
51 to 52	0	9
53 to 54	11	34
55 to 56	12	2
57 to 58	41	37
59 to 60	0	0
61 to 62	9	14
63 to 64	18	11
65 to 66	7	14
67 to 68	1	5
69 to 70	14	6
71 to 72	0	0
73 to 74	17	4
75 to 76	6	30
77 to 78	2	0

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.

STACY: Maybe you should just be honest, sweetie. STACY: You could say: look, I don't know anything about these either, so now we're gonna read them together and sort of teach each other as we go. … AMY: Why would they hire you if you haven't read the books?

AMY: It's annoying. STACY: So she became a prostitute. AMY: It's tedious and boring. And once they start, it's impossible to get them to stop.

STACY: It's beautiful. AMY: So beautiful. STACY: And the mosquitoes are gone. You realize that? They've stopped biting. She smiles at the others, delighted by this development. Amy removes …

AMY: But what will we eat? How will we-- The RINGING comes again, silencing her. She glances toward the shaft, not quite believing what she's hea… STACY: A cell phone. AMY: It can't be--

AMY: Wait... She pauses, lifting the torch, but Stacy keeps going. Amy peers at the vine hanging from the wall. There's a fifth RING, echoing eer… AMY: Stacy... The shaft dead-ends at a blank wall, which is just materializing out of the darkness, fifteen feet in front of them. There's a sixt… STACY: It's right here. I can-- Amy jumps forward, reaching for her.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 42 are women's.

369 lines from women, 518 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

4 women and 9 men in the cast. 6 women and 6 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 3 of 938. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 35 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 38% of the words (6,572), men 62% (10,936). Women have 42% 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

4 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Carter Smith (man)
Written by: Scott B. Smith (man)
Produced by: Chris Bender (man), Stuart Cornfeld (man)
Shot by: Darius Khondji (man)
Edited by: Jeff Betancourt (man)
Music by: Graeme Revell (man)
Production design by: Grant Major (man)
Costumes by: Lizzy Gardiner (woman)
Cast by: Denise Chamian (woman), Ben Parkinson (gender not listed), Nikki Barrett (woman), Jennifer Venditti (woman)