Passes the Bechdel test
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and Dave Callaham.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
15 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 14 scenes out of 105. -
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
One long decade after the post-apocalyptic events in Zombieland (2009), the resilient quartet of survivors--the tough-as-nails zombie exterminator, Tallahassee; his rule-making comrade, Columbus; the free-spirited huntress, Wichita, and her younger sister, Little Rock--find themselves in the bosom of a now-derelict White House. However, in a rabid world still overrun by multitudes of walking dead and mutated strains of evolved animated corpses, a premeditated separation will send the team back to square one, searching, once more, for the promised land. Now, all hope rests on Babylon: an entirely organic commune of blissful vegetarian pacifists who love to party. Is this the end of the road?
- Released
- 18 Oct 2019
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.6 / 10
- Metascore
- 55 / 100
- Awards
- 6 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Columbus 254 lines, man
- Tallahassee 232 lines, man
- Wichita 163 lines, woman
- Madison 58 lines, woman
- Little Rock 49 lines, woman
- Nevada 39 lines, woman
- Berkeley 24 lines, man
- Albuquerque 23 lines, man
- Flagstaff 13 lines, man
- Tall Girl 9 lines, woman
Full cast, 48 people
- Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus
- Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee
- Emma Stone as Wichita
- Abigail Breslin as Little Rock
- Zoey Deutch as Madison
- Avan Jogia as Berkeley
- Rosario Dawson as Nevada
- Luke Wilson as Albuquerque
- Thomas Middleditch as Flagstaff
- Victoria Hall as Babylonian Gatekeeper
- Victor Rivera as Civil War Bearded Guy
- Ian Gregg as Bowel Blast Guy
- Devin Mojica as Cool Hat Guy
- Rachel Luttrell as Terrified Woman in Snow
- John Dixon as Homer Zombie in Snow
- Ronny Mathew as Scared Lab Tech
- Jess Durham as Beatrix Hawking
- David Fleischer as Exoculated Scientist
- Jenin Gonzalez as Survivor with Flashlight
- Felix Betancourt as Ninja Zombie
- Lucas Fleischer as Dave Sanderman
- Gianni Biasetti Jr. as Haybale Z
- Ari Loeb as T-800 Z
- Anthony Dilio as Matteo Bianchi
- Bill Murray as Bill Murray
- Julia Vasi as Publicist
- Al Roker as Reporter
- Lili Estefan as Reporter
- Joshua Alex Horowitz as Reporter
- Grace Randolph as Reporter
- Sergio Briones as T-800 (uncredited)
- Timothy Carr as T-800 Zombie (uncredited)
- Nathan W. Collins as Zombie (uncredited)
- Isabelle Fretheim as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
- Brianna Gardner as T-800 Attack Zombie (uncredited)
- Kyra Elise Gardner as T-800 Attack Zombie (uncredited)
- Kandis Hargrave as Dept. Store Female Zombie (uncredited)
- Julian B Lin as T-800 Zombie (uncredited)
- Louie g Maldonado as Straggler Zombie (uncredited)
- Tim McAdams as Cameraman (uncredited)
- Andrew R. McCallister as T800 (uncredited)
- Zara McDowell as Zombie (uncredited)
- Jessica Medina as White House Zombie (uncredited)
- Oscar Rodriguez III as Zombie / T800 (uncredited)
- MWW Michael Wilkerson as T 800 Zombie (uncredited)
- Otis Winston as T 800 Zombie (uncredited)
- Lewis Wright as Zombie (uncredited)
- Michael A. Martinez as White House Zombie (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 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 105
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 to 12 | 4 | 8 |
| 13 to 15 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 to 18 | 19 | 27 |
| 19 to 21 | 8 | 10 |
| 22 to 24 | 11 | 34 |
| 25 to 27 | 6 | 9 |
| 28 to 30 | 5 | 8 |
| 31 to 33 | 5 | 10 |
| 34 to 36 | 7 | 12 |
| 37 to 39 | 21 | 28 |
| 40 to 42 | 7 | 10 |
| 43 to 45 | 22 | 18 |
| 46 to 48 | 7 | 32 |
| 49 to 51 | 17 | 17 |
| 52 to 54 | 5 | 10 |
| 55 to 57 | 1 | 12 |
| 58 to 60 | 1 | 5 |
| 61 to 63 | 10 | 13 |
| 64 to 66 | 10 | 19 |
| 67 to 69 | 10 | 19 |
| 70 to 72 | 12 | 12 |
| 73 to 75 | 3 | 4 |
| 76 to 78 | 14 | 11 |
| 79 to 81 | 16 | 45 |
| 82 to 84 | 13 | 54 |
| 85 to 87 | 17 | 15 |
| 88 to 90 | 16 | 14 |
| 91 to 93 | 10 | 8 |
| 94 to 96 | 7 | 22 |
| 97 to 99 | 8 | 25 |
| 100 to 102 | 8 | 13 |
| 103 to 105 | 17 | 28 |
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.
WICHITA: Hopefully the only thing you’ll be kissed by. LITTLE ROCK: Hey, have you ever heard of this place? Grace... Town?
WICHITA: Anything to lessen the pain. MADISON: I got it!
MADISON: What?! What kind of idiot would turn down a ring like this? WICHITA: Maybe one that didn’t want to be weighed down. Anchored. Chained to something immobile. MADISON: Shoot. Sorry. Forgot the seat- belt rule. WICHITA: Oh, so she already knows the rules.
MADISON: Jewel used to have one of theee- eek! WICHITA: God we’re good at this kind of thing.
WICHITA: Hawking! WICHITA: Hawking! MADISON: You saved me!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 35 are women's.
318 lines from women, 581 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
15 women and 32 men in the cast. 4 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 34 of 918.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 33 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 (3,215), men 64% (5,650). 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
32
Two men
78
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 11 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 43% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Ruben Fleischer (man)
- Written by
- David Callaham (man), Rhett Reese (man), Paul Wernick (man)
- Produced by
- Gavin Polone (man)
- Shot by
- Chung Chung-hoon (man)
- Edited by
- Dirk Westervelt (man)
- Music by
- David Sardy (man)
- Production design by
- Martin Whist (man)
- Costumes by
- Christine Wada (woman)
- Cast by
- John Papsidera (man)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
22 women, 8 men, 9 not listed
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Sound
5 women, 15 men, 9 not listed
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Production
4 women, 11 men, 9 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 5 men, 14 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
8 women, 1 men, 10 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 5 men, 9 not listed
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Art
4 women, 6 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 3 men, 4 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 29 on average. Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Abigail Breslin 23, Zoey Deutch 24, Emma Stone 30, Rosario Dawson 40
Men
Avan Jogia 27, Jesse Eisenberg 36, Thomas Middleditch 37, Luke Wilson 48, Woody Harrelson 58
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $42 million
- Box office
- $123 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 105 scenes and 918 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
