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Mike from Monsters Inc. is part of the Disney Infinity Collection. Toronto, Canada - Nov. 19 2015. Richard Lautens—Toronto Star/Getty Images by [Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly Apr 8, 2016 7:35 AM UTC Earlier this year, researchers reported that many Disney princesses speak less than the male characters in their own movies. Now a new analysis of 2,000 Hollywood screenplays suggests that the picture isn’t much brighter for female characters in other Disney films, or in the rest of mainstream moviedom. According to a Polygraph study, 21 of 30 Disney and Pixar movies analyzed had more than 60% male dialogue, while five films had a roughly equal gender balance and only four films had a majority of female dialogue. The Disney film with the highest percentage of male dialogue was the 1967 version of The Jungle Book with 98%, followed by Monsters Inc. (96%) and Toy Story (93%). The films with the highest percentage of female dialogue were Sleeping Beauty (69%), Maleficent (68%), and the 2010 version of Alice in Wonderland (65%). The report’s authors, Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels, conceded that the methodology of examining scripts is not infallible, as characters and lines can be cut and added at various stages of production. “We believe the results are still directionally accurate,” the wrote, “but individual films will definitely have errors.” The gender imbalance extends beyond Disney films, the report says. “Across thousands of films in our dataset, it was hard to find a subset that didn’t over-index male. Even romantic comedies have dialogue that is, on average, 58% male.” For more findings and some cool infographics, read the full Polygraph report. [_This article originally appeared on Ew.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/07/disney-movie-dialogue-gender-breakdown) ## Transcript There's a darkness to Maleficent, there was a darkness to me in that age. And we've all been hurt in our lives. We've all, somebody's betrayed us. And it has brought us, it has put, makes us put our wall up, and it makes us furious. And it changes who we are. And then it's, the choices we make. And then what we have to live with, when we make those choices. I want you to gather your men, hunt Malificent down, and then I want you to kill her. Yes, your majesty. What, what we will now discover about her, is that she was actually somebody who was quite fierce and loyal, and and a fighter for what she believed in. When she get's wounded, she loses that, and does that absolute. Most unjust horrible thing, and to curse an innocent person. Yeah, when you asked me like what do you wanna be when you grow up when I was little, I would say a Disney princess, especially sleeping beauty. I need to talk to you about something. She is probably the most good hearted. I mean, when you watch the original, she's pretty much. All happy and always loving. She's very curious. But it was nice to in our movie, to have, more of a depth to her. We really made her, you know, show more emotions and, actually be sad and, you know, feel betrayal and all these things. So, it was fun to discover that. But then also keep the, the stuff that I love so much. And action. No, no. [ CROSSTALK ]. It was fun to, to do a film where you can, relate to the same problems in many ways, that the characters are having, but set in a fantastic world that you're able to, sort of immerse yourself in. And, and You know, step out of your own life for two hours, and then explore a world, not only visually, but emotionally. It's something special about that. 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