Passes the Bechdel test
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, written by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
10 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 222. -
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
A super-secret organization recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. A phenomenal cast, including ACADEMY AWARD® Winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine and OSCAR® Nominee Samuel L. Jackson, leads this action-packed spy-thriller directed by Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class).
- Released
- 13 Feb 2015
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 60 / 100
- Awards
- 11 wins & 37 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Eggsy 211 lines, man
- Jack 179 lines, man
- Merlin 105 lines, man
- Valentine 55 lines, man
- Roxy 42 lines, woman
- Arthur 31 lines, man
- Charlie 19 lines, man
- Michelle 18 lines, woman
- Gazelle 14 lines, woman
- Poppy 11 lines
Full cast, 51 people
- Taron Egerton as Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin
- Colin Firth as Harry Hart / Galahad
- Samuel L. Jackson as Valentine
- Mark Strong as Merlin
- Sophie Cookson as Roxy
- Sofia Boutella as Gazelle
- Michael Caine as Arthur
- Edward Holcroft as Charlie
- Hanna Alström as Princess Tilde
- Samantha Womack as Michelle Unwin
- Mark Hamill as Professor Arnold
- Jonno Davies as Lee
- Jack Davenport as Lancelot
- Adrian Quinton as Terrorist
- Alex Nikolov as Little Eggsy
- Velibor Topic as Big Goon
- Geoff Bell as Dean
- Jordan Long as Poodle
- Theo Barklem-Biggs as Ryan
- Tobi Bakare as Jamal
- Morgan Watkins as Rottweiler
- Paul Kennington as Barman
- Ralph Ineson as Policeman
- Nicholas Banks as Digby
- Jack Cutmore-Scott as Rufus
- Nicholas Agnew as Nathaniel
- Rowan Polonski as Piers
- Tom Prior as Hugo
- Fiona Hampton as Amelia
- Bjørn Floberg as Scandinavian Prime Minister
- Johanna Taylor as Valentine's Assistant 1
- Lily Travers as Lady Sophie
- Richard Brake as The Interrogator
- Andrew Bridgmont as Kingsman Tailor
- Corey Johnson as Church Leader
- Anne Wittman as Church Blonde Woman
- Andrei Lenart as Arctic Guard
- Simon Green as Valentine's Butler
- Lazara Storm as Valentine's Assistant 2
- Sarah Hewson as Sky News Reader
- Jayne Secker as Sky News Reader
- Lukwesa Burak as Sky News Reader
- James Clayton as Kingsman Knight
- Nick English as Kingsman Knight
- Charles Filmer as Kingsman Knight
- Bimbo Hart as Kingsman Knight
- Chester King as Kingsman Knight
- Alastair MacIntosh as Kingsman Knight
- Carlos Peres as Kingsman Knight
- Jude Poyer as Church Goer (uncredited)
- Daniel Chapple as Business Elite (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 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 222
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 4 | 29 |
| 6 to 10 | 6 | 20 |
| 11 to 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 16 to 20 | 0 | 3 |
| 21 to 25 | 1 | 24 |
| 26 to 30 | 0 | 43 |
| 31 to 35 | 3 | 26 |
| 36 to 40 | 10 | 32 |
| 41 to 45 | 4 | 15 |
| 46 to 50 | 1 | 24 |
| 51 to 55 | 5 | 17 |
| 56 to 60 | 2 | 8 |
| 61 to 65 | 3 | 15 |
| 66 to 70 | 2 | 38 |
| 71 to 75 | 0 | 15 |
| 76 to 80 | 5 | 48 |
| 81 to 85 | 4 | 15 |
| 86 to 90 | 3 | 9 |
| 91 to 95 | 0 | 28 |
| 96 to 100 | 0 | 14 |
| 101 to 105 | 0 | 22 |
| 106 to 110 | 0 | 5 |
| 111 to 115 | 0 | 14 |
| 116 to 120 | 1 | 10 |
| 121 to 125 | 1 | 13 |
| 126 to 130 | 2 | 18 |
| 131 to 135 | 4 | 9 |
| 136 to 140 | 1 | 24 |
| 141 to 145 | 2 | 14 |
| 146 to 150 | 5 | 21 |
| 151 to 155 | 2 | 10 |
| 156 to 160 | 2 | 4 |
| 161 to 165 | 3 | 10 |
| 166 to 170 | 0 | 6 |
| 171 to 175 | 0 | 9 |
| 176 to 180 | 2 | 4 |
| 181 to 185 | 1 | 6 |
| 186 to 190 | 1 | 9 |
| 191 to 195 | 0 | 0 |
| 196 to 200 | 0 | 3 |
| 201 to 205 | 0 | 2 |
| 206 to 210 | 0 | 3 |
| 211 to 215 | 0 | 0 |
| 216 to 220 | 2 | 8 |
| 221 to 222 | 2 | 6 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
ROXY: Here, use me .. AMELIA: She means to write on.
ROXY: That sucks. Wanna borrow something to s l eep in? AMELIA: Looks li ke i t's bedtime.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 11 are women's.
84 lines from women, 668 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
10 women and 35 men in the cast. 5 women and 16 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 25 of 879.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 111 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 6% of the words (899), men 94% (13,068). Women have 11% 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
3
Two men
96
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 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
- Matthew Vaughn (man)
- Written by
- Jane Goldman (woman), Matthew Vaughn (man)
- Produced by
- Adam Bohling (man), David Reid (man), Matthew Vaughn (man)
- Shot by
- George Richmond (man)
- Edited by
- Jon Harris (man), Eddie Hamilton (man)
- Music by
- Matthew Margeson (man), Henry Jackman (man)
- Production design by
- Paul Kirby (man)
- Costumes by
- Arianne Phillips (woman)
- Cast by
- Reg Poerscout-Edgerton (man)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
8 women, 10 men
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Costume & Make-Up
6 women, 1 men, 6 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 12 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
3 women, 8 men
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Production
2 women, 7 men, 1 not listed
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Writing
1 women, 3 men
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Camera
0 women, 3 men
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Directing
1 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 33 on average. Men: 51 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Sophie Cookson 24, Sofia Boutella 32, Hanna Alström 33, Samantha Womack 42
Men
Taron Egerton 25, Edward Holcroft 27, Mark Strong 51, Colin Firth 54, Samuel L. Jackson 66, Michael Caine 81
Exhibit H: the money
It made 5.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $81 million
- Box office
- $414 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 222 scenes and 879 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
