Passes the Bechdel test

Hanna

Name: Hanna
Released: 2011

2011. Directed by Joe Wright, written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
7 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 14 scenes out of 205.
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.

The film

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the skills of a soldier. These come from being raised by her father, Erik Heller (Eric Bana), an ex-C.I.A. man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by ruthless intelligence operative, Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), who has secrets of her own. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

Released: 08 Apr 2011
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.7 / 10
Metascore: 65 / 100
Awards: 8 wins & 26 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Hanna 168 lines, woman
Marissa 101 lines, woman
Sophie 69 lines, woman
Erik 67 lines, man
Rachel 36 lines, woman
Isaacs 27 lines, man
Seb 22 lines
Knepfler 20 lines, man
Miles 13 lines, man
Lewis 12 lines, man

Full cast, 27 people

Saoirse Ronan as Hanna
Eric Bana as Erik
Cate Blanchett as Marissa
Tom Hollander as Isaacs
Jessica Barden as Sophie
Olivia Williams as Rachel
Jason Flemyng as Sebastian
Aldo Maland as Miles
Tim Beckmann as Walt
John Macmillan as Lewis
Vicky Krieps as Johanna Zadeck
Martin Wuttke as Knepfler
Paris Arrowsmith as CIA Tech 1
Paul Birchard as Bob
Christian Malcolm as Head of Ops
Jamie Beamish as Burton
Tom Hodgkins as Monitor
Vincent Montuel as Camp G Doctor 1
Nathan Nolan as Camp G Doctor 2
Michelle Dockery as False Marissa
Mohamed Majd as Moroccan Hotel Owner
Sebastian Hülk as Titch
Joel Basman as Razor
Mathias Harrebye-Brandt as Danish Policeman
Álvaro Cervantes as Feliciano
Marc Soto as Feliciano's Brother
Gudrun Ritter as Katrin Zadek

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 205

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 5	1	1
6 to 10	16	17
11 to 15	0	1
16 to 20	2	1
21 to 25	3	3
26 to 30	7	8
31 to 35	9	10
36 to 40	6	6
41 to 45	3	2
46 to 50	7	8
51 to 55	3	2
56 to 60	6	2
61 to 65	4	1
66 to 70	1	2
71 to 75	0	1
76 to 80	0	2
81 to 85	1	0
86 to 90	15	8
91 to 95	26	24
96 to 100	20	3
101 to 105	1	0
106 to 110	18	0
111 to 115	13	0
116 to 120	0	1
121 to 125	7	2
126 to 130	47	8
131 to 135	32	6
136 to 140	0	1
141 to 145	12	6
146 to 150	30	0
151 to 155	8	3
156 to 160	12	15
161 to 165	10	10
166 to 170	3	4
171 to 175	18	18
176 to 180	4	2
181 to 185	5	2
186 to 190	21	8
191 to 195	7	0
196 to 200	8	0
201 to 205	4	0

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.

HANNA: It was first described by the Arabic scientist Ibn Alhazen in the year 1021. MARISSA: What's she saying?

SOPHIE: She can't talk. HANNA: Hanna.

SOPHIE: See you. SOPHIE takes one more puzzled look at HANNA, then turns and disappears over the sand dune. HANNA rises to the top of the dune. SOPH… HANNA: No. I prefer to walk. SOPHIE: Suit yourself.

SOPHIE: Miles is always hungry. HANNA: I'm thirsty.

HANNA: Three bullets. RACHEL: Oh. God. How terrible. SOPHIE is weirdly impressed.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 67 are women's.

390 lines from women, 188 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

7 women and 20 men in the cast. 6 women and 14 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 11 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 65% of the words (4,798), men 35% (2,530). Women have 67% 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 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 30% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Joe Wright (man)
Written by: David Farr (man), Seth Lochhead (man)
Story by: Seth Lochhead (man)
Produced by: Leslie Holleran (woman), Marty Adelstein (man), Scott Nemes (man)
Shot by: Alwin H. Küchler (man)
Edited by: Paul Tothill (man)
Music by: Ed Simons (man), Tom Rowlands (man)
Production design by: Sarah Greenwood (woman)
Costumes by: Lucie Bates (woman)
Cast by: Jina Jay (woman)