Fails the Bechdel test

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Name: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Released: 2020

2020. Directed by Jason Woliner, written by Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Dan Swimer.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
2 women characters. 1 of them speak.
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

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

The film

Fourteen long years after the culture shock he experienced in Borat (2006), Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev has been called to Premier Nursultan Nazarbayev's office for a life-or-death task. To redeem himself and salvage the reputation of the glorious nation of Kazakhstan, Borat must now return to President Donald Trump's America to deliver an exceptional gift to Vice President Mike Pence. Instead, Borat's newfound 15-year-old daughter Tutar enters the picture, forcing a change of plans. As now-famous Borat takes a deep dive into U.S. politics, the father and daughter learn a thing or two about feminism, racism, and an insidious, lethal virus called COVID-19. Will Borat, Kazakhstan's fourth-best journalist, carry out his mission?

Released: 23 Oct 2020
Genres: Comedy
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.6 / 10
Metascore: 68 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. 38 wins & 68 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Borat 493 lines, man
Tutar 210 lines, woman
Babysitter 69 lines, woman
Jim 41 lines
Giuliani 40 lines
Jerry 27 lines, man
Judith 27 lines
Anti-Abortionist 20 lines
Fax Employee 19 lines
Nazarbayev 16 lines

Full cast, 16 people

Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev
Maria Bakalova as Tutar Sagdiyev
Tom Hanks as Self
Dani Popescu as Premier Nazarbayevdx
Manuel Vieru as Dr. Yamak (Gypsy Tears)
Miroslav Tolj as Nursultan Tulyakbay
Alin Popa as HueyLewis / Jeffrey Epstein Sagdiyev
Ion Gheorghe as Bilak Sagdiyev
Nicolae Gheorghe as Biram Sagdiyev
Marcela Codrea as Kuczek Villager
Luca Nelu as Kuczek Villager
Judith Dim Evans as Self (uncredited)
Mike Pence as Self (uncredited)
Rudolph Giuliani as Self (uncredited)
Chase Fein as Cartoon Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stephen Stanton as Jerry (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 27% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 157

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	6
5 to 8	0	5
9 to 12	0	12
13 to 16	5	18
17 to 20	0	5
21 to 24	4	58
25 to 28	5	21
29 to 32	19	27
33 to 36	14	11
37 to 40	11	17
41 to 44	18	52
45 to 48	4	16
49 to 52	6	6
53 to 56	2	3
57 to 60	0	7
61 to 64	7	11
65 to 68	7	29
69 to 72	10	18
73 to 76	70	1
77 to 80	34	0
81 to 84	17	50
85 to 88	0	25
89 to 92	0	8
93 to 96	1	40
97 to 100	1	19
101 to 104	23	21
105 to 108	0	0
109 to 112	3	2
113 to 116	7	2
117 to 120	29	26
121 to 124	0	3
125 to 128	1	0
129 to 132	0	1
133 to 136	0	1
137 to 140	0	2
141 to 144	1	2
145 to 148	1	11
149 to 152	1	2
153 to 156	3	8
157 to 157	7	10

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, 36 are women's.

311 lines from women, 556 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

2 women and 9 men in the cast. 1 women and 9 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 49 of 1,183. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 150 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 34% of the words (2,238), men 66% (4,442). Women have 36% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

6 of the 24 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Jason Woliner (man)
Written by: Jena Friedman (woman), Peter Baynham (man), Dan Swimer (man), Erica Rivinoja (woman), Dan Mazer (man), Sacha Baron Cohen (man) and 2 more
Story by: Anthony Hines (man), Dan Swimer (man), Sacha Baron Cohen (man), Nina Pedrad (woman)
Produced by: Anthony Hines (man), Monica Levinson (woman), Sacha Baron Cohen (man)
Shot by: Luke Geissbühler (man)
Edited by: Craig Alpert (man), James Thomas (man), Michael Giambra (man)
Music by: Erran Baron Cohen (man)
Production design by: David Maturana (man)
Costumes by: Erinn Knight (woman)
Cast by: Nancy Bishop (woman)