Fails the Bechdel test
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2011. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell and Didier Van Cauwelaert.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
A biochemist and his wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man has claimed his identity. With help from a nurse, the cab driver, a retired Stasi agent, and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what's going on. Is the answer in the briefcase?
- Released
- 18 Feb 2011
- Genres
- Action, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.8 / 10
- Metascore
- 56 / 100
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Martin 231 lines, man
- Gina 89 lines, woman
- Jurgen 57 lines, man
- Liz 47 lines
- Cole 25 lines, man
- Martin B 21 lines, man
- Farge 18 lines, man
- Bressler 15 lines, man
- Strauss 15 lines, man
- Biko 8 lines, man
Full cast, 37 people
- Liam Neeson as Dr. Martin Harris
- Diane Kruger as Gina
- January Jones as Elizabeth Harris
- Aidan Quinn as Martin B.
- Bruno Ganz as Ernst Jürgen
- Frank Langella as Rodney Cole
- Sebastian Koch as Professor Leo Bressler
- Olivier Schneider as Smith
- Stipe Erceg as Jones
- Rainer Bock as Herr Strauss
- Mido Hamada as Prince Shada
- Clint Dyer as Biko
- Karl Markovics as Dr. Farge
- Eva Löbau as Nurse Gretchen Erfurt
- Helen Wiebensohn as Laurel Bressler
- Adnan Maral as Turkish Taxi Driver
- Merle Wiebensohn as Lily Bressler
- Torsten Michaelis as Airport Taxi Driver
- Rainer Sellien as Control Room Detective
- Petra Hartung as Control Room Detective
- Michael Baral as Hotel Adlon Receptionist
- Sanny van Heteren as Hotel Adlon Receptionist
- Marlon Putzke as Hotel Adlon Bellhop
- Herbert Olschok as Hans Brandt
- Karla Trippel as Hotel Cashier
- Petra Schmidt-Schaller as Immigration Officer
- Annabelle Mandeng as TV Anchor
- Janina Flieger as University Receptionist
- Fritz Roth as Taxi Depot Manager
- Heike Hanold-Lynch as Lost & Found Clerk
- Matthias Weidenhöfer as Hotel Control Room Guard
- Kida Khodr Ramadan as Café Owner
- Peter Becker as Hotel Guard
- Vladimir Pavic as Hotel Bouncer
- Oliver Stolz as River Samaritan
- Sebastian Stielke as Brandt's Assistant
- Rose Wakesho as Gogo-Girl
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 15% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 174
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 to 12 | 5 | 24 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 8 |
| 17 to 20 | 1 | 39 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 24 |
| 25 to 28 | 2 | 1 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 7 |
| 37 to 40 | 11 | 22 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 55 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 4 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 1 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 2 |
| 57 to 60 | 5 | 35 |
| 61 to 64 | 10 | 5 |
| 65 to 68 | 6 | 9 |
| 69 to 72 | 2 | 2 |
| 73 to 76 | 0 | 2 |
| 77 to 80 | 4 | 2 |
| 81 to 84 | 1 | 0 |
| 85 to 88 | 13 | 9 |
| 89 to 92 | 1 | 31 |
| 93 to 96 | 2 | 7 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 0 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 6 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 6 |
| 109 to 112 | 2 | 5 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 4 |
| 117 to 120 | 2 | 29 |
| 121 to 124 | 5 | 4 |
| 125 to 128 | 2 | 8 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 12 |
| 133 to 136 | 8 | 11 |
| 137 to 140 | 3 | 5 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 4 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 1 |
| 149 to 152 | 1 | 6 |
| 153 to 156 | 0 | 3 |
| 157 to 160 | 2 | 2 |
| 161 to 164 | 0 | 3 |
| 165 to 168 | 2 | 3 |
| 169 to 172 | 1 | 6 |
| 173 to 174 | 3 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 19 are women's.
94 lines from women, 410 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
13 women and 24 men in the cast. 2 women and 12 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 11 of 594.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 104 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 20% of the words (2,019), men 80% (8,216). Women have 19% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit D: 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
0
Two men
27
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Jaume Collet-Serra (man)
- Written by
- Oliver Butcher (man), Stephen Cornwell (man)
- From the novel by
- Didier van Cauwelaert (man)
- Produced by
- Andrew Rona (man), Joel Silver (man), Leonard Goldberg (man)
- Shot by
- Flavio Martínez Labiano (man)
- Edited by
- Timothy Alverson (man)
- Music by
- John Ottman (man), Alexander Rudd (man)
- Production design by
- Richard Bridgland (man)
- Costumes by
- Ruth Myers (woman)
- Cast by
- Lucinda Syson (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
8 women, 25 men, 14 not listed
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Production
4 women, 17 men, 5 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 2 men, 21 not listed
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Art
5 women, 8 men, 7 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 11 men, 6 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 5 men, 9 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 56 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
January Jones 33, Diane Kruger 34
Men
Stipe Erceg 36, Sebastian Koch 48, Aidan Quinn 51, Rainer Bock 56, Liam Neeson 58, Bruno Ganz 69, Frank Langella 73
Exhibit G: the money
It made 4.4 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $131 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 174 scenes and 594 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
