Passes the Bechdel test

Blade Runner 2049

Name: Blade Runner 2049
Released: 2017

2017. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green and Philip K. Dick.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
14 women characters. 11 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 6 scenes out of 170.
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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

The film

Thirty years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), a new Blade Runner, L.A.P.D. Officer "K" (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former L.A.P.D. Blade Runner, who has been missing for thirty years.

Released: 06 Oct 2017
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 8 / 10
Metascore: 81 / 100
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. 101 wins & 164 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

K 210 lines, man
Joi 59 lines, woman
Joshi 51 lines, woman
Luv 43 lines, woman
Deckard 39 lines, man
Interviewer 33 lines, man
Niander Wallace 32 lines, man
Ana 23 lines, woman
Mariette 18 lines, woman
Freysa 16 lines, woman

Full cast, 39 people

Ryan Gosling as 'K'
Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard
Ana de Armas as Joi
Dave Bautista as Sapper Morton
Robin Wright as Lieutenant Joshi
Sylvia Hoeks as Luv
Mackenzie Davis as Mariette
Jared Leto as Niander Wallace
Carla Juri as Dr. Ana Stelline
Hiam Abbass as Freysa
Lennie James as Mister Cotton
David Dastmalchian as Coco
Sean Young as Rachael
Edward James Olmos as Gaff
Barkhad Abdi as Doc Badger
Wood Harris as Nandez
Tómas Lemarquis as File Clerk
Sallie Harmsen as Replicant
Loren Peta as Rachael Double
Mark Arnold as Interviewer
Krista Kosonen as Doxie #2
Elarica Johnson as Doxie #3
David Benson as Liberace Look-A-Like
Kingston Taylor as Boy with One Ear
Ben Thompson as Elvis Look-A-Like
Ellie Wright as Little Ellie
Suzie Kennedy as Marilyn Look-A-Like
Stephen Triffitt as Sinatra Look-A-Like
Vilma Szécsi as Angry Old Lady
Kincsö Sánta as Birthday Girl
André Lukács Molnár as Memory Child
István Göz as Scavenger #1
Pál Nyári as Scavenger #2
Joshua Tersoo Allagh as Scavenger #3
Zoltán Béres as Scavenger #4
Konstantin Pál as Scavenger #5
Ferenc Györgyi as Scavenger #6
Samuel Brown as Orphanage Boy
Mary Lukasiewicz as Hologram Joi (voice) (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 4% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 170

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	0
5 to 8	0	0
9 to 12	1	25
13 to 16	8	14
17 to 20	0	28
21 to 24	2	1
25 to 28	20	11
29 to 32	17	21
33 to 36	0	4
37 to 40	10	12
41 to 44	8	15
45 to 48	12	5
49 to 52	2	6
53 to 56	6	12
57 to 60	15	11
61 to 64	10	24
65 to 68	0	0
69 to 72	0	0
73 to 76	0	0
77 to 80	3	0
81 to 84	1	1
85 to 88	0	6
89 to 92	0	2
93 to 96	6	3
97 to 100	20	15
101 to 104	8	35
105 to 108	12	7
109 to 112	8	16
113 to 116	1	2
117 to 120	0	11
121 to 124	0	1
125 to 128	0	6
129 to 132	13	30
133 to 136	1	5
137 to 140	1	0
141 to 144	5	0
145 to 148	24	25
149 to 152	2	1
153 to 156	1	0
157 to 160	2	0
161 to 164	0	4
165 to 168	1	6
169 to 170	1	1

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.

JOI: And yet. REVEAL: JOI. JOI: Voila. Bon appetit. JOI: I missed you, babysweet.

CLOSE ON JOI: SEEING K. NOT BREATHING. MAYBE DEAD. JOI: K... K... K... K... K... K...

MARIETTE: You have a special lady here. MARIETTE: Look at you. JOI: Quiet now. I have to sync.

MARIETTE: From a tree... JOI: I’m done with you. You can go. MARIETTE: “Quiet now.” I’ve been inside you. Not so much there as you think.

LUV: Bad dog. JOI: STOP! LUV: I do hope you’re satisfied with our product. JOI: I love y--

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 38 are women's.

221 lines from women, 366 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

14 women and 16 men in the cast. 11 women and 11 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 17 of 613. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 34 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 44% of the words (2,605), men 56% (3,285). Women have 38% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

4 of the 17 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve (man)
Written by: Hampton Fancher (man), Michael Green (man)
Story by: Hampton Fancher (man)
Produced by: Andrew A. Kosove (man), Cynthia Sikes (woman), Bud Yorkin (man), Broderick Johnson (man)
Shot by: Roger Deakins (man)
Edited by: Joe Walker (man)
Music by: Hans Zimmer (man), Benjamin Wallfisch (man)
Production design by: Dennis Gassner (man)
Costumes by: Renée April (woman)
Cast by: Francine Maisler (woman), Lucinda Syson (woman), Zsolt Csutak (gender not listed)