Passes the Bechdel test
Thunderbirds
2004. Directed by Jonathan Frakes, written by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and Peter Hewitt.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 7 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3, though someone marked that rating as dubious.
The film
The year is 2010. Teenager Alan Tracy, sent off to a distant boarding school, is the youngest of the sons of Jeff Tracy, a retired American astronaut. Jeff, a widower, has formed International Rescue, and raised his sons to act as a secret, volunteer organization which uses highly advanced technology to save lives worldwide. Jeff and his older sons John, Virgil, Scott, and Gordon, who like Alan were named after the Mercury Seven astronauts are joined in this effort by Lady Penelope and her butler/chauffeur Parker. Their futuristic hardware is largely developed by a genius scientist known as Brains, who lives at the International Rescue base on Tracy Island, somewhere in the Pacific.
- Released
- 30 Jul 2004
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 4.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 36 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Alan 170 lines, man
- Fermat 121 lines, man
- Jeff 106 lines, man
- Lady Penelope 70 lines, woman
- The Hood 60 lines, man
- Tintin 52 lines, woman
- Parker 47 lines, man
- Mullion 36 lines, man
- Brains 34 lines, man
- Transom 26 lines, woman
Full cast, 28 people
- Brady Corbet as Alan Tracy
- Bill Paxton as Jeff Tracy
- Anthony Edwards as Brains
- Ben Kingsley as The Hood
- Sophia Myles as Lady Penelope
- Vanessa Hudgens as Tintin
- Philip Winchester as Scott Tracy
- Soren Fulton as Fermat
- Debora Weston as Teacher
- Lou Hirsch as Headmaster
- Alex Barringer as Excited Kid
- Demetri Goritsas as News Anchor
- Genie Francis as Lisa Lowe
- Deobia Oparei as Mullion
- Kyle Herbert as Know-It-All Kid
- Dominic Colenso as Virgil Tracy
- Ben Torgersen as Gordon Tracy
- Ron Cook as Parker
- Johannes Zadrozny as Panhead
- Nicola Walker as Panhead's Mother
- Harvey Virdi as Onaha
- Bhasker Patel as Kyrano
- Lex Shrapnel as John Tracy
- Rose Keegan as Transom
- Stewart Howson as Engineer
- Mark Nelmes as Ice Cream Man
- Andy Smart as Henchman & Oil Rig Worker
- Julian Spencer as Henchman
Who talks, scene by scene
We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
TINTIN: Okay. TRANSOM: Professor Hackenbacker? We met at last year's international conference on
TRANSOM: Whoa! LADY PENELOPE: One tries so hard in life to sort things out on an intellectual-slash-conversational level.
TINTIN: Lady Penelope! LADY PENELOPE: Big oaf! Right, that's quite
TRANSOM: Come here, you little minx! (Tintin jumps up on a bar and flips to the other side while TINTIN: Bye-bye.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 20 are women's.
159 lines from women, 649 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
7 women and 17 men in the cast. 7 women and 23 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 826.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 48 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 19% of the words (1,083), men 81% (4,654). Women have 20% 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
6
Two men
91
Exhibit F: behind the camera
7 of the 21 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Jonathan Frakes (man)
- Written by
- William Osborne (man), Michael McCullers (man)
- Story by
- Peter Hewitt (man), William Osborne (man)
- Produced by
- Tim Bevan (man), Eric Fellner (man), Mark Huffam (man), Jo Burn (woman), Chris Clark (man)
- Shot by
- Brendan Galvin (man)
- Edited by
- Martin Walsh (man)
- Music by
- Ramin Djawadi (man), Hans Zimmer (man)
- Production design by
- John Beard (man)
- Costumes by
- Marit Allen (woman)
- Cast by
- Mary Selway (woman), Fiona Weir (woman), Mary Gail Artz (woman), Shaheen Baig (woman), Barbara Cohen (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
9 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
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Art
1 women, 11 men, 1 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 4 men, 6 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 5 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 6 men
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Visual Effects
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
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Writing
1 women, 5 men
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Directing
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 28 on average. Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Vanessa Hudgens 15, Sophia Myles 24, Debora Weston 46
Men
Soren Fulton 13, Brady Corbet 15, Philip Winchester 23, Anthony Edwards 42, Bill Paxton 49, Lou Hirsch 49, Ben Kingsley 60
Exhibit H: the money
It made 50% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $57 million
- Box office
- $28.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 826 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
