Passes the Bechdel test

Titanic

Name: Titanic
Released: 1997

1997. Directed by James Cameron, written by James Cameron.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
27 women characters. 15 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 195.
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

84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Released: 19 Dec 1997
Genres: Drama, Romance
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 8 / 10
Metascore: 75 / 100
Awards: Won 11 Oscars. 126 wins & 84 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Rose 193 lines, woman
Jack 160 lines, man
Cal 71 lines, man
Lovett 51 lines, man
Molly 28 lines, woman
Bodine 25 lines, man
Ruth 25 lines, woman
Smith 25 lines, man
Andrews 21 lines, man
Old Rose 18 lines, woman

Full cast, 116 people

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane as Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates as Molly Brown
Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater
Gloria Stuart as Old Rose
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
Bernard Hill as Captain Smith
David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy
Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews
Jonathan Hyde as Bruce Ismay
Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert
Lewis Abernathy as Lewis Bodine
Nicholas Cascone as Bobby Buell
Anatoly M. Sagalevitch as Anatoly Milkailavich
Danny Nucci as Fabrizio
Jason Barry as Tommy Ryan
Ewan Stewart as 1st Officer Murdoch
Ioan Gruffudd as Fifth Officer Lowe
Jonny Phillips as 2nd Officer Lightoller
Mark Lindsay Chapman as Chief Officer Wilde
Richard Graham as Quartermaster Rowe
Paul Brightwell as Quartermaster Hichens
Ron Donachie as Master at Arms
Eric Braeden as John Jacob Astor
Charlotte Chatton as Madeleine Astor
Bernard Fox as Col. Archibald Gracie
Michael Ensign as Benjamin Guggenheim
Fannie Brett as Madame Aubert
Jenette Goldstein as Irish Mommy
Camilla Overbye Roos as Helga Dahl
Linda Kerns as 3rd Class Woman
Amy Gaipa as Trudy Bolt
Martin Jarvis as Sir Duff Gordon
Rosalind Ayres as Lady Duff Gordon
Rochelle Rose as Countess of Rothes
Jonathan Evans-Jones as Wallace Hartley
Brian Walsh as Irish Man
Rocky Taylor as Bert Cartmell
Alexandrea Owens as Cora Cartmell
Simon Crane as 4th Officer Boxhall
Edward Fletcher as 6th Officer Moody
Scott G. Anderson as Frederick Fleet
Martin East as Lookout Lee
Craig Kelly as Harold Bride
Gregory Cooke as Jack Phillips
Liam Tuohy as Chief Baker Joughin
James Lancaster as Father Byles
Elsa Raven as Ida Strauss
Lew Palter as Isidor Straus
Reece P. Thompson III as Irish Little Boy
Laramie Landis as Irish Little Girl
Amber Waddell as Cal's Crying Girl
Alison Waddell as Cal's Crying Girl
Mark Rafael Truitt as Yaley
John Walcutt as 1st Class Husband
Terry Forrestal as Chief Engineer Bell
Derek Lea as Leading Stoker Barrett
Richard Ashton as Carpenter John Hutchinson
Sean Nepita as Elevator Operator
Brendan Connolly as Scotland Road Steward
David Cronnelly as Crewman
Garth Wilton as 1st Class Waiter
Martin Laing as Promenade Deck Steward
Richard Fox as Steward #1
Nick Meaney as Steward #2
Kevin Owers as Steward #3
Mark Capri as Steward #4
Marc Cass as Hold Steward #1
Paul Herbert as Hold Steward #2
Emmett James as 1st Class Steward
Chris Byrne as Stairwell Steward
Oliver Page as Steward Barnes
James Garrett as Titanic Porter
Erik Holland as Olaf Dahl
Jari Kinnunen as Bjorn Gunderson
Anders Falk as Olaus Gunderson
Martin Hub as Slovakian Father
Seth Adkins as Slovakian 3 Year Old Boy
Barry Dennen as Praying Man
Vern Urich as Man in Water
Rebecca Klingler as Mother at Stern
Tricia O'Neil as Woman
Kathleen S. Dunn as Woman in Water
Romeo Francis as Syrian Man
Mandana Marino as Syrian Woman
Van Ling as Chinese Man
Bjørn Olsen as Olaf
Dan Pettersson as Sven
Shay Duffin as Pubkeeper
Greg Ellis as Carpathia Steward
Diana Morgan as News Reporter
Kris Andersson as Dancer
Bobbie Bates as Dancer
Aaron James Cash as Dancer
Anne Fletcher as Dancer
Edmond Alan Forsyth as Dancer
Andie Hicks as Dancer
Scott Hislop as Dancer
Stan Mazin as Dancer
Lisa Ratzin as Dancer
Julene Renee as Dancer
Alexandra Boyd as First Class Woman (uncredited)
James Cameron as Steerage Dancer (uncredited)
Mike Butters as Musician / Baker (uncredited)
Kevin De La Noy as Third Officer Pitman (uncredited)
Tony Kenny as Deckhand (uncredited)
Sean Lawlor as Charles Hendrickson (uncredited)
Don Lynch as Frederick Spedden (uncredited)
Johnny Martin as Rescue Boat Crewman (uncredited)
Meghan McLeod as First Class Passenger (uncredited)
Steven Quale as Engine Room Crewman (uncredited)
R. Gern Trowbridge as Drowning Man (uncredited)
Olivia Rosewood as Mary Marvin (uncredited)
John Slade as Ohio Man (uncredited)
Brian McDermott as Titanic Gym Instructor Thomas McCawley (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 5 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 195

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 5	0	18
6 to 10	7	23
11 to 15	14	15
16 to 20	11	38
21 to 25	1	6
26 to 30	10	9
31 to 35	1	4
36 to 40	28	45
41 to 45	27	29
46 to 50	26	16
51 to 55	16	23
56 to 60	17	19
61 to 65	7	14
66 to 70	16	12
71 to 75	4	8
76 to 80	1	4
81 to 85	6	7
86 to 90	2	11
91 to 95	3	20
96 to 100	2	16
101 to 105	4	27
106 to 110	7	19
111 to 115	5	12
116 to 120	14	11
121 to 125	8	6
126 to 130	11	16
131 to 135	4	20
136 to 140	4	9
141 to 145	0	7
146 to 150	5	25
151 to 155	3	7
156 to 160	1	8
161 to 165	0	5
166 to 170	1	4
171 to 175	1	1
176 to 180	5	14
181 to 185	11	13
186 to 190	10	3
191 to 195	7	10

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.

ROSE: Yes. Very nice. Have you met my granddaughter, Lizzy? She takes care of me. LIZZY: Yes. We met just a few minutes ago, grandma. Remember, up on deck? ROSE: Oh, yes. ROSE: There, that's nice. I have to have my pictures when I travel. And Freddy of course.

ROSE: It was a dreadful, heavy thing. LIZZY: You actually believe this is you, grandma? ROSE: It is me, dear. Wasn't I a hot number?

OLD ROSE: After all these years, feel it closing around my throat like a dog collar. ROSE: I can still feel its weight. If you could have felt it, not just seen it...

RUTH: Oh no, that vulgar Brown woman is coming this way. Get up, quickly before she sits with us. MOLLY: Hello girls, I was hoping I'd catch you at tea. RUTH: We're awfully sorry you missed it. The Countess and I are just off to take the air on the boat deck. MOLLY: That sounds great. Let's go. I need to catch up on the gossip.

RUTH: Of course the invitations had to be sent back to the printers twice. And the bridesmaids dresses! Let me tell you what an odyssey that has b… ROSE: Oh, look what I've done.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 35 are women's.

300 lines from women, 554 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

27 women and 74 men in the cast. 15 women and 41 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 30 of 873. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 29 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 36% of the words (3,449), men 64% (6,040). Women have 35% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: James Cameron (man)
Written by: James Cameron (man)
Produced by: James Cameron (man), Jon Landau (man)
Shot by: Russell Carpenter (man)
Edited by: Conrad Buff IV (man), James Cameron (man), Richard A. Harris (man)
Music by: James Horner (man)
Production design by: Peter Lamont (man)
Costumes by: Deborah L. Scott (woman)
Cast by: Mali Finn (woman), Emily Schweber (woman)