The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender

Film

Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels have put together the largest ever analysis of film dialog by gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines.

But it’s all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion. How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?

To begin answering these questions, we Googled our way to 8,000 screenplays and matched each character’s lines to an actor. From there, we compiled the number of words spoken by male and female characters across roughly 2,000 films, arguably the largest undertaking of script analysis, ever.

You could spend hours exploring this page; incredible.

Sponsor: Creep Records Signs Jank

Jank

Philadelphia band, Jank, have signed to Creep Records and launched pre-orders for their much buzzed about debut album, Awkward Pop Songs. For a limited time the full album is available for free on Bandcamp. A limited first pressing of the vinyl will be released on May 27th (300 blue inside white and 700 kelly green and orange with purple splatter) and there are pre-order options that also include a t-shirt and medtainer. A message from Creep Records, and a promo code, can be found below.

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