Fails the Bechdel test
The Adventures of Tintin
2011. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts.
- Released
- 21 Dec 2011
- Genres
- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 7.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 68 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 22 wins & 63 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Tintin 295 lines, man
- Haddock 220 lines, man
- Sakharine 67 lines, man
- Thompson 57 lines, man
- Thomson 51 lines, man
- Angleon 50 lines
- Allan 34 lines, man
- Tom 22 lines, man
- Silk 19 lines, man
- Crabtree 14 lines, man
Full cast, 22 people
- Jamie Bell as Tintin (voice)
- Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock (voice)
- Daniel Craig as Sakharine / Red Rackham (voice)
- Nick Frost as Thomson (voice)
- Simon Pegg as Thompson (voice)
- Daniel Mays as Allan / Pirate Flunky #1 (voice)
- Gad Elmaleh as Ben Salaad (voice)
- Toby Jones as Silk (voice)
- Enn Reitel as Nestor / Mr. Crabtree (voice)
- Mackenzie Crook as Tom / Pirate Flunky #2 (voice)
- Tony Curran as Lieutenant Delcourt (voice)
- Sonje Fortag as Mrs. Finch (voice)
- Cary Elwes as Pilot (voice)
- Phillip Rhys as Co-Pilot / French Medic (voice)
- Ron Bottitta as Sailor / Lookout (voice)
- Mark Ivanir as Afghar Outpost Soldier / Secretary (voice)
- Sebastian Roché as Pedro / 1st Mate (voice)
- Kim Stengel as Bianca Castafiore (voice)
- Abraham Justice as Soldier (voice)
- Sana Etoile as Press Reporter (voice)
- Joe Starr as Barnaby (voice)
- Nathan Meister as Hergé (voice)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 11% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 134
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 58 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 31 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 13 to 15 | 2 | 72 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 35 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 6 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 4 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 2 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 2 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 3 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 6 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 31 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 41 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 23 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 9 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 16 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 46 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 49 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 38 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 8 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 26 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 24 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 16 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 27 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 4 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 1 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 9 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 5 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 6 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 8 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 3 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 2 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 18 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 3 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 23 |
| 112 to 114 | 0 | 16 |
| 115 to 117 | 0 | 21 |
| 118 to 120 | 0 | 9 |
| 121 to 123 | 0 | 64 |
| 124 to 126 | 0 | 32 |
| 127 to 129 | 0 | 11 |
| 130 to 132 | 0 | 16 |
| 133 to 134 | 0 | 20 |
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, 0 are women's.
2 lines from women, 863 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
1 women and 19 men in the cast. 0 women and 28 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 119 of 968.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 839 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 1% of the words (60), men 99% (8,041). Women have 0% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
0
Two men
95
Exhibit E: behind the camera
4 of the 15 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 12% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Steven Spielberg (man)
- Written by
- Edgar Wright (man), Joe Cornish (man), Steven Moffat (man)
- Produced by
- Steven Spielberg (man), Peter Jackson (man), Kathleen Kennedy (woman), Carolynne Cunningham (woman), Jason McGatlin (man)
- Shot by
- Janusz Kamiński (man)
- Edited by
- Michael Kahn (man)
- Music by
- John Williams (man)
- Cast by
- Scot Boland (man), Victoria Burrows (woman), Jina Jay (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
1 women, 19 men, 66 not listed
-
Other crew
0 women, 12 men, 4 not listed
-
Production
5 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 3 men, 8 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 3 men
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Writing
0 women, 4 men
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Editing
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 2 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Men
Jamie Bell 25, Daniel Mays 33, Nick Frost 39, Gad Elmaleh 40, Mackenzie Crook 40, Simon Pegg 41, Daniel Craig 43, Toby Jones 45, Andy Serkis 47, Enn Reitel 61
Exhibit G: the money
It made 2.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $130 million
- Box office
- $374 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 134 scenes and 968 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
