Passes the Bechdel test

GoldenEye

Name: GoldenEye
Released: 1995

1995. Directed by Martin Campbell, written by Ian Fleming and Michael France and Jeffrey Caine.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 1 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 41.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, 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

A high altitude betrayal in a Soviet chemical plant sets a decades long fuse. James Bond emerges from the Cold War shadows to find a world indifferent to his vintage charms. A stolen helicopter and a space borne electromagnetic pulse leave Russia in ruins and London in the cross-hairs. Bond pursues a ghost from his past through the industrial decay of Saint Petersburg. The mission shifts from national defense to a scorched earth personal reckoning beneath the Cuban sun.

Released: 17 Nov 1995
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7.2 / 10
Metascore: 65 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards. 2 wins & 8 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Bond 122 lines, man
Marina 59 lines
Trevelyan 55 lines, man
Xenia 27 lines, woman
Romaly 26 lines, man
Technician 10 lines
Kolkhazhna 9 lines
Pushkin 9 lines, man
Illya 8 lines, man
Q 8 lines

Full cast, 27 people

Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan
Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova
Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp
Joe Don Baker as Jack Wade
Judi Dench as M
Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Zukovsky
Tchéky Karyo as Dmitri Mishkin
Gottfried John as Colonel Ourumov
Alan Cumming as Boris Grishenko
Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Samantha Bond as Moneypenny
Michael Kitchen as Bill Tanner
Serena Gordon as Caroline
Simon Kunz as Severnaya Duty Officer
Pavel Douglas as French Warship Captain
Olivier Lajous as French Warship Officer
Billy J. Mitchell as Admiral Chuck Farrell
Constantine Gregory as Computer Store Manager
Minnie Driver as Irina
Michelle Arthur as Anna
Ravil Isyanov as MIG Pilot
Vladimir Milanovich as Croupier
Trevor Byfield as Train Driver
Peter Majer as Valentin's Bodyguard
Mark Chapman as Casino Gambler (uncredited)
Rachel Ter Horst as Girl in Casino (Uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 38% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 41

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 1	0	0
2 to 2	0	7
3 to 3	0	1
4 to 4	0	10
5 to 5	0	0
6 to 6	6	3
7 to 7	0	0
8 to 8	0	2
9 to 9	0	4
10 to 10	0	0
11 to 11	0	0
12 to 12	0	5
13 to 13	0	0
14 to 14	1	13
15 to 15	0	10
16 to 16	0	10
17 to 17	1	9
18 to 18	0	8
19 to 19	4	3
20 to 20	9	4
21 to 21	0	0
22 to 22	1	6
23 to 23	9	3
24 to 24	0	38
25 to 25	0	0
26 to 26	0	0
27 to 27	0	29
28 to 28	0	2
29 to 29	0	5
30 to 30	0	0
31 to 31	0	11
32 to 32	1	2
33 to 33	1	13
34 to 34	0	0
35 to 35	0	10
36 to 36	0	1
37 to 37	0	3
38 to 38	0	0
39 to 39	0	34
40 to 40	0	0
41 to 41	0	3

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

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

KGB AGENT: Xenia -- Internal security's reported there's an intruder caught in the west trap -- -- want to have a look? XENIA: It's so gruesome -- {considers, smiles) -- well -- all right.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 12 are women's.

33 lines from women, 249 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

8 women and 17 men in the cast. 1 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 34 of 455. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 155 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 8% of the words (422), men 92% (5,003). Women have 12% 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

4 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Martin Campbell (man)
Written by: Jeffrey Caine (man), Bruce Feirstein (man)
Story by: Michael France (man)
Produced by: Michael G. Wilson (man), Anthony Waye (man), Barbara Broccoli (woman)
Shot by: Phil Meheux (man)
Edited by: Terry Rawlings (man)
Music by: Éric Serra (man), The Edge (man), Bono (man)
Production design by: Peter Lamont (man)
Costumes by: Lindy Hemming (woman)
Cast by: Debbie McWilliams (woman), Pam Dixon (woman)