Passes the Bechdel test

Colombiana

Name: Colombiana
Released: 2011

2011. Directed by Olivier Megaton, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
9 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 279.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

A young woman grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target - the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

Released: 26 Aug 2011
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 45 / 100
Awards: 2 wins & 6 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Cat 168 lines, woman
Marco 85 lines, man
Danny 80 lines, man
Ross 74 lines, man
Emilio 57 lines, man
Don Luis 40 lines, man
Richard 29 lines, man
Fabio 28 lines, man
On Cat 22 lines
Man 20 lines, man

Full cast, 50 people

Zoe Saldaña as Cataleya Restrepo
Cliff Curtis as Emilio
Callum Blue as Richard
Michael Vartan as Danny Delanay
Lennie James as Special Agent Ross
Amandla Stenberg as Cataleya Restrepo (Age10)
Graham McTavish as Head Marshall Warren
Jesse Borrego as Fabio
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Alicia
Ofelia Medina as Mama
Jordi Mollà as Marco
Affif Ben Badra as Genarro Rizzo
Max Martini as Agent Robert Williams
Charles Maquignon as Sergeant Bill Attwood
Beto Benitez as Don Luis
Sam Douglas as William Woodgard
Angel Garnica as Pepe
Mark De Alessandro as SWAT
Reem Kherici as Nymphette
Guillermo Ríos as Emilio's Man
Silas Cooper as Customs Officer
Mylène Pilutik as CIA Girl (as Mylene Pilutik)
Tony Dalton as American Embassy 1
David Clark as Marshall
Billy Slaughter as Ryan
Nikea Gamby-Turner as Shari
Andrea Helene as Principal
John McConnell as Smith
Sébastien Peres as SWAT
Pablo Vinós as SWAT
Julian Sedgwick as American Embassy 2
Julien Muller as Doyle
Luis Toscano as Fabio's Man
Javier Escobar as Marco's Gun Man
Michael Showers as Cop
Wes Cannon as Cop
Doug Rao as Michael Shino
Julie Nicolet as Nymphette
Stéphane Orsolani as Guy (6th Floor)
Steve Herson as Ticket Agent
Richard Zeringue as Bureaucrat
Stephan Brodziak as Tech FBI
William Raymond as FBI Operator
Alfredo Gonzáles as Old Man (Gardener)
Alejandro Peraza as Head Bodyguard
Donald Marshall as William's Servant
Ariane Brodier as Alexa
Donagh Gordon as FBI Mailman
Benoit Lavelatte as Thug
Ricardo Vargas as Customer (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 6 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 14% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 279

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 6	11	39
7 to 12	3	56
13 to 18	0	10
19 to 24	3	14
25 to 30	12	2
31 to 36	1	0
37 to 42	2	16
43 to 48	17	25
49 to 54	4	12
55 to 60	0	2
61 to 66	0	0
67 to 72	0	0
73 to 78	0	1
79 to 84	3	2
85 to 90	0	3
91 to 96	0	2
97 to 102	1	0
103 to 108	0	0
109 to 114	0	5
115 to 120	6	8
121 to 126	4	9
127 to 132	0	30
133 to 138	11	23
139 to 144	32	15
145 to 150	4	13
151 to 156	5	21
157 to 162	19	51
163 to 168	11	14
169 to 174	7	21
175 to 180	1	2
181 to 186	10	13
187 to 192	0	2
193 to 198	0	0
199 to 204	0	0
205 to 210	0	2
211 to 216	0	1
217 to 222	0	3
223 to 228	1	0
229 to 234	1	1
235 to 240	21	33
241 to 246	4	10
247 to 252	0	12
253 to 258	0	7
259 to 264	1	10
265 to 270	0	1
271 to 276	5	17
277 to 279	0	3

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

SHERRI: I'm Sherri. And you are? CAT: Very tired. SHERRI: Well, 'very tired', I'm sure you want to lay down and rest your little head? CAT: I do.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 28 are women's.

200 lines from women, 511 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

9 women and 29 men in the cast. 3 women and 21 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 3 of 822. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 51 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 21% of the words (1,275), men 79% (4,887). Women have 28% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

1 of the 15 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 37% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Olivier Megaton (man)
Written by: Luc Besson (man), Robert Mark Kamen (man)
Produced by: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (man), Gareth Upton (gender not listed), Luc Besson (man)
Shot by: Romain Lacourbas (man)
Edited by: Camille Delamarre (man)
Music by: Craig Walker (man), Nathaniel Méchaly (man)
Production design by: Patrick Durand (man)
Costumes by: Olivier Bériot (man)
Cast by: John Papsidera (man), Meagan Lewis (woman), Nicolas Ronchi (man)