Fails the Bechdel test
The A-Team
2010. Directed by Joe Carnahan, written by Joe Carnahan and Brian Bloom and Skip Woods.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
9 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
Four American soldiers who are in Iraq are sent on a mission to recover plates for printing 100 dollar bills that were used to print a billion dollars. After doing the job and returning to the base their commanding officer is killed in an explosion and the plates are stolen by another operative. They would be court martialed and sent to different prisons. 6 months later, the leader, Hannibal Smith is visited by a CIA spook who tells him he knows where the man who took the plates is and wants him and his men to recover it. So he helps him escape and he breaks out the others and they go after the plates. But after doing it, they discover that the spook might not be ok. And a military intelligence officer who was involved with one of them is pursuing them.
- Released
- 11 Jun 2010
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 47 / 100
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Hannibal 269 lines, man
- Face 103 lines, man
- Lynch 58 lines, man
- Murdock 49 lines, man
- Sosa 45 lines, woman
- Gen. Garner 27 lines
- Pike 21 lines, man
- Dr. Al-Mahdi 19 lines, man
- Grushko 16 lines, man
- Elizabeth 14 lines, woman
Full cast, 70 people
- Liam Neeson as Hannibal
- Bradley Cooper as Face
- Jessica Biel as Charisa Sosa
- Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson as B.A. Baracus
- Sharlto Copley as Murdock
- Patrick Wilson as Lynch
- Gerald McRaney as General Morrison
- Henry Czerny as Director McCready
- Yul Vazquez as General Javier Tuco
- Brian Bloom as Pike
- Maury Sterling as Gammons
- Terry Chen as Ravech
- Omari Hardwick as Chopshop Jay
- David Hugghins as Oskar Shunt
- Jacob Blair as Agent Blair
- Rad Daly as Agent Daly
- Kyle Riefsnyder as Agent Kyle
- Andrew Coghlan as Army Hospital Attendant
- James O'Sullivan as Army Hospital Courier
- C. Ernst Harth as Crematorium Attendant
- Stefan Arngrim as Crazy Howard Little
- Christian Tessier as Tahoe Prison Deputy
- William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart as Tahoe Inmate #1
- Marc-Anthony Massiah as Tahoe Inmate #2
- Kwesi Ameyaw as Dutch Customs Agent #1
- Robert Thomas Conway Jr. as Dutch Customs Agent #2
- Gardiner Millar as Prison Warden
- Anita Brown as Attractive Prison Guard
- Alex Madison as General Tuco's Wife
- Ben Hernandez Bray as Mexican Captor #1
- Jimmy Ortega as Mexican Captor #2
- Joe Carnahan as Mike "The Operator"
- Neil Schell as Army Meddac Hospital XO
- Leah Carnahan as Army Meddac Nurse
- Michael St. John Smith as Cemetary Chaplain
- Shaw Madson as Station Polizei
- Katie Boskovich as FOB French Reporter
- Tony Ali as Morrison's Arab Goon #1
- Sam Radjinia as Morrison's Arab Goon #2
- Billy Wickman as Flight Control Tech
- Brendan Penny as C130J Pilot #1
- Jeanne-Melanie Haasbroek as Army Hospital Therapist Elke
- Tom Butler as Judge Advocate #1
- Woody Carnahan as Judge Advocate #2
- Charles Cooper as Judge Advocate #3
- Dirk Benedict as Pensacola Prisoner Milt
- Dwight Schultz as German Doctor #1
- Don Knodel as German Doctor #2
- Natalie James as Lynch Secretary
- Vince Murdocco as Pike Goon #1
- Fraser Aitcheson as Pike Goon #2
- Jason Schombing as Flight Control Commander
- Stephane Fromont as Gate Guard
- Karl Maier as German Fisherman
- Anne Maier as German Wife
- Hitesh Jogia as Iraqi Liaison #1
- Marwan Al-Shami as Iraqi Liaison #2
- Ali Bordbar as Iraqi Liaison #3
- Jennifer Cheon Garcia as Lynch Woman
- Peter Fletcher as Police Captain
- Alfred Jajjo as Mint Worker
- Jon Johnson as Honor Guard
- Shannon Christopher Wright as Police Detective
- Patrick Merle as Frankfurt Police Officer
- Julian Paul as Prison MP
- Raf Rogers as Soccer Kid
- Ralph Shaw as Ukulele Performer
- Darin Wong as Killer Operative
- Corey Burton as Narrator (voice)
- Jon Hamm as Other Lynch (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 69
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 1 | 41 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 42 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 46 |
| 9 to 10 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 to 12 | 3 | 15 |
| 13 to 14 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 to 16 | 3 | 5 |
| 17 to 18 | 1 | 24 |
| 19 to 20 | 2 | 14 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 8 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 3 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 7 |
| 27 to 28 | 1 | 7 |
| 29 to 30 | 0 | 6 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 30 |
| 33 to 34 | 3 | 31 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 16 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 33 |
| 39 to 40 | 0 | 42 |
| 41 to 42 | 6 | 11 |
| 43 to 44 | 8 | 16 |
| 45 to 46 | 0 | 6 |
| 47 to 48 | 6 | 72 |
| 49 to 50 | 5 | 11 |
| 51 to 52 | 2 | 8 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 3 |
| 55 to 56 | 4 | 14 |
| 57 to 58 | 2 | 4 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 1 |
| 61 to 62 | 1 | 11 |
| 63 to 64 | 0 | 5 |
| 65 to 66 | 1 | 10 |
| 67 to 68 | 7 | 29 |
| 69 to 69 | 8 | 13 |
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, 10 are women's.
66 lines from women, 594 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
9 women and 55 men in the cast. 3 women and 13 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 36 of 754.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 122 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 (536), men 92% (6,114). Women have 10% 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
1
Two men
61
Exhibit E: behind the camera
5 of the 19 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Joe Carnahan (man)
- Written by
- Skip Woods (man), Brian Bloom (man), Joe Carnahan (man)
- Produced by
- Alex Young (man), Tony Scott (man), Stephen J. Cannell (man), Iain Smith (man), Jules Daly (woman), Spike Seldin (man)
- Shot by
- Mauro Fiore (man)
- Edited by
- Jim May (man), Roger Barton (man)
- Music by
- Alan Silvestri (man)
- Production design by
- Charles Wood (man)
- Cast by
- Coreen Mayrs (woman), Heike Brandstatter (woman), Deborah Aquila (woman), Tricia Wood (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
10 women, 63 men, 40 not listed
-
Art
6 women, 18 men, 30 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 15 men, 32 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 13 men, 19 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
13 women, 1 men, 15 not listed
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Production
10 women, 9 men, 9 not listed
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Lighting
1 women, 8 men, 16 not listed
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Sound
2 women, 12 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 28 on average. Men: 44 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jessica Biel 28
Men
Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson 31, Bradley Cooper 35, Sharlto Copley 36, Patrick Wilson 36, Brian Bloom 39, Yul Vazquez 45, Henry Czerny 51, Liam Neeson 58, Gerald McRaney 62
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $110 million
- Box office
- $177 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 69 scenes and 754 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
