Passes the Bechdel test
Underwater
2020. Directed by William Eubank, written by Brian Duffield and Adam Cozad.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
4 women characters. 1 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.
The film
An unknown, massive earthquake happens in a drilling station in the bottom of the Marianna Trench. A scientific crew must find their way across the ocean floor into another station under the threats of deep pressure, dark water, dangerous deep-sea creatures, and a constant lack of oxygen.
- Released
- 10 Jan 2020
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Horror
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 5.9 / 10
- Metascore
- 48 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Norah 264 lines, woman
- Tiffany 205 lines, woman
- Captain 92 lines, man
- Smith 83 lines, man
- Rodrigo 40 lines, man
- Paul 35 lines, man
- Muffled Voice 2 lines
Full cast, 9 people
- Kristen Stewart as Norah Price
- Vincent Cassel as Captain Lucien
- Mamoudou Athie as Rodrigo Nagenda
- T.J. Miller as Paul Abel
- John Gallagher Jr. as Liam Smith
- Jessica Henwick as Emily Haversham
- Gunner Wright as Lee Miller
- Fiona Rene as Godmother
- Amanda Troop as Poseidon Patty
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.
NORAH: I’m so glad you’re alive. TIFFANY: Me too. NORAH: Holy shit motherfucker. TIFFANY: That’s exactly what I said.
TIFFANY: Okay. The escape pods that weren’t damaged in the quake are all gone too. Better? NORAH: Could we fix any of them?
TIFFANY: There’s only four pods left. NORAH: But they’re all broken?
TIFFANY: Oh my God. Oh my God. NORAH: I’m not ready to say goodbye to you.
TIFFANY: Let’s not talk about it. Let’s just get to the Roebuck. NORAH: Atta girl. TIFFANY: Here’s what I’m thinking about. I’m thinking about how I’m going to have the easiest master’s thesis of all time. TIFFANY: And I’ll be on the cover of Wired.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 65 are women's.
469 lines from women, 250 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
4 women and 5 men in the cast. 1 women and 3 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 721.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 7 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 69% of the words (3,566), men 31% (1,587). Women have 65% 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
45
Two men
11
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- William Eubank (man)
- Written by
- Adam Cozad (man), Brian Duffield (man)
- Story by
- Brian Duffield (man)
- Produced by
- Jenno Topping (woman), Tonia Davis (woman), Peter Chernin (man)
- Shot by
- Bojan Bazelli (man)
- Edited by
- Todd E. Miller (man), Brian Berdan (man), William Hoy (man)
- Music by
- Marco Beltrami (man), Brandon Roberts (man)
- Production design by
- Naaman Marshall (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Dorotka Sapinska (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Angela Demo (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
3 women, 5 men, 54 not listed
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Art
2 women, 10 men, 38 not listed
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Other crew
6 women, 12 men, 13 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 23 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 8 men, 12 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 1 men, 12 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 4 men, 11 not listed
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Production
3 women, 5 men, 6 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 32 on average. Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jessica Henwick 27, Kristen Stewart 29, Fiona Rene 31, Amanda Troop 42
Men
Mamoudou Athie 31, John Gallagher Jr. 35, T.J. Miller 38, Gunner Wright 46, Vincent Cassel 53
Exhibit H: the money
It made 82% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $40.9 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 721 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
