Passes the Bechdel test

The Bourne Supremacy

Name: The Bourne Supremacy
Released: 2004

2004. Directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Robert Ludlum and Tony Gilroy.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
10 women characters. 7 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 232.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.

The film

Two years ago, Jason Bourne thought he had walked away from his past. But now the past catches up to Jason Bourne when the CIA threatens to ruin his new life. Bourne and Marie have maintained their anonymous, underground existence at the cost of permanence. Fueled by splintered nightmares and haunted by the past he cannot remember, Bourne moves Marie from city to city, trying to remain one step ahead of the threat implicit in every unexplained stranger's glance, every "wrong number" phone call--that at any second, without any warning, he might get pulled back into the world he hopes he left behind.

Released: 23 Jul 2004
Genres: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7.7 / 10
Metascore: 73 / 100
Awards: 5 wins & 22 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Bourne 119 lines, man
Pamela 113 lines, woman
Abbott 67 lines, man
Nicky 43 lines, woman
Cronin 39 lines, man
Marie 33 lines, woman
Jarda 21 lines, man
Zorn 19 lines, man
Teddy 16 lines, man
Irena 15 lines, woman

Full cast, 46 people

Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
Franka Potente as Marie Helene Kreutz
Brian Cox as Ward Abbott
Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons
Karl Urban as Kirill
Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn
Joan Allen as Pamela Landy
Marton Csokas as Jarda
Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin
John Bedford Lloyd as Teddy
Ethan Sandler as Kurt
Michelle Monaghan as Kim
Karel Roden as Yuri Gretkov
Tomas Arana as Martin Marshall
Oksana Akinshina as Irena Neski
Yevgeni Sitokhin as Vladimir Neski
Marina Weis as Mrs. Neski
Tim Griffin as John Nevins
Sean Smith as Vic
Maxim Kovalevski as Ivan
Patrick Crowley as Jack Weller
Jon Collin Barclay as Jarhead
Sam Brown as Jarhead
Shane Sinutko as Jarhead
Barnaby Smith as CIA Techie
Dominique Chiout as Waitress
Wanja Mues as Night Clerk
Aleksey Shmarinov as Moscow Taxi Driver
Stephan Wolf-Schönburg as Suspicious Cop
Olov Ludwig as Market Security Guard
Keshav Nadkarni as Mr. Mohan
Violetta Tarnowska Bronner as Neski Neighbor
Alexey Medvedev as Young Cop
Aleksandr Dubina as 2nd Cop
Aleksandr Boev as 2nd Taxi Driver
Claudio Maniscalco as Immigration Officer
Manfred Witt as Doorman
Alexey Trotsenko as Vodka Police Passenger
Victoria Unikel as Mercedes Driver
Oksana Semenova as Mercedes Passenger
Vitaly Abdulov as Volga Taxi Owner
Dirk Schoedon as Berlin Taxi Driver
Ivan Shvedoff as Moscow Policeman
Denis Burgazliev as Moscow Policeman
Nick Wilder as Delta C.O.
Chris Cooper as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 232

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 5	10	9
6 to 10	0	0
11 to 15	0	2
16 to 20	0	1
21 to 25	6	7
26 to 30	8	8
31 to 35	5	7
36 to 40	0	0
41 to 45	0	3
46 to 50	6	7
51 to 55	0	11
56 to 60	0	2
61 to 65	4	6
66 to 70	14	15
71 to 75	11	11
76 to 80	2	8
81 to 85	21	15
86 to 90	21	7
91 to 95	0	38
96 to 100	0	0
101 to 105	0	0
106 to 110	4	7
111 to 115	5	8
116 to 120	29	34
121 to 125	12	16
126 to 130	0	24
131 to 135	1	3
136 to 140	0	0
141 to 145	0	0
146 to 150	2	2
151 to 155	0	5
156 to 160	3	5
161 to 165	4	14
166 to 170	3	10
171 to 175	14	22
176 to 180	9	18
181 to 185	0	0
186 to 190	0	2
191 to 195	0	1
196 to 200	0	0
201 to 205	0	0
206 to 210	0	0
211 to 215	0	0
216 to 220	0	0
221 to 225	0	0
226 to 230	28	26
231 to 232	0	0

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.

PAMELA: Is it fresh? NICKY: It's got caffeine in it. That's all I know. PAMELA: Pamela Landy.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 39 are women's.

222 lines from women, 354 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

10 women and 31 men in the cast. 7 women and 23 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 593. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 43 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 39% of the words (2,360), men 61% (3,634).

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

2 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Paul Greengrass (man)
Written by: Tony Gilroy (man)
From the novel by: Robert Ludlum (man)
Produced by: Frank Marshall (man), Patrick Crowley (man), Paul Sandberg (man)
Shot by: Oliver Wood (man)
Edited by: Richard Pearson (man), Christopher Rouse (man)
Music by: John Powell (man)
Production design by: Dominic Watkins (man)
Costumes by: Dinah Collin (woman)
Cast by: Dan Hubbard (man), John Hubbard (man), Joseph Middleton (man), Annette Borgmann (woman)