Passes the Bechdel test
The Last of the Mohicans
1992. Directed by Michael Mann, written by James Fenimore Cooper and John L. Balderston and Paul Perez.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 102. -
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
The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.
- Released
- 25 Sep 1992
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.6 / 10
- Metascore
- 76 / 100
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 17 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Hawkeye 115 lines, man
- Heyward 97 lines, man
- Cora 75 lines, woman
- Munro 52 lines, man
- Magua 33 lines, man
- Montcalm 30 lines, man
- Jack 16 lines, man
- Chingachgook 15 lines, man
- Alice 13 lines, woman
- Uncas 13 lines, man
Full cast, 52 people
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye
- Madeleine Stowe as Cora
- Jodhi May as Alice
- Russell Means as Chingachgook
- Wes Studi as Magua
- Eric Schweig as Uncas
- Steven Waddington as Heyward
- Maurice Roëves as Colonel Munro
- Pete Postlethwaite as Captain Beams
- Colm Meaney as Major Ambrose
- Patrice Chéreau as General Montcalm
- Edward Blatchford as Jack Winthrop
- Terry Kinney as John Cameron
- Tracey Ellis as Alexandra Cameron
- Justin M. Rice as James Cameron
- Dennis Banks as Ongewasgone
- Mac Andrews as General Webb
- Malcolm Storry as Phelps
- David Schofield as Sergeant Major
- Eric D. Sandgren as Coureur De Bois
- Mike Phillips as Sachem
- Mark A. Baker as Colonial Man
- Dylan Baker as Bougainville
- Tim Hopper as Ian
- Gregory Zaragoza as Abenaki Chief
- Scott Means as Abenaki Warrior
- William J. Bozic Jr. as French Artillery Officer
- Patrick Fitzgerald as Webb's Adjutant
- Mark Joy as Henri
- Steve Keator as Colonial Representative
- Don Tilley as Colonial #1
- Thomas E. Cummings as Colonial #2
- David Farrow as Guard
- Ethan James Fugate as French Sappeur
- F. Curtis Gaston as Soldier #1
- Eric A. Hurley as Soldier #2
- Jared Harris as British Lieutenant
- Michael Flannery as Sentry
- Tom McGowan as Rich Merchant
- Alice Papineau as Huron Woman
- Mark J. Maracle as Sharitarish
- Clark Heathcliffe as Regimental Sergeant Major
- Sebastian Roché as Martin
- Joe Finnegan as Redcoat #2
- Sheila Adams Barnhill as Humming Woman
- John Harrington Bland as British Soldier (uncredited)
- Bill Chemerka as Royal Artillerist (uncredited)
- Payton Dunham as Abenaki Warrior (uncredited)
- Benton Jennings as Scottish Officer (uncredited)
- Trenton McDevitt as British Soldier (uncredited)
- Brent Ponder as French Soldier (uncredited)
- Ron Blake as Brittish Soldier / French Soldier (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 102
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 25 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 19 |
| 10 to 12 | 1 | 23 |
| 13 to 15 | 14 | 22 |
| 16 to 18 | 3 | 36 |
| 19 to 21 | 8 | 17 |
| 22 to 24 | 19 | 11 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 4 |
| 28 to 30 | 6 | 52 |
| 31 to 33 | 2 | 9 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 13 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 4 |
| 46 to 48 | 6 | 41 |
| 49 to 51 | 7 | 11 |
| 52 to 54 | 4 | 5 |
| 55 to 57 | 1 | 1 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 54 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 4 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 5 |
| 67 to 69 | 3 | 24 |
| 70 to 72 | 6 | 14 |
| 73 to 75 | 1 | 0 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 to 81 | 4 | 6 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 16 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 3 |
| 91 to 93 | 3 | 21 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 102 | 3 | 12 |
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.
CORA: Yes. Yes, I will. ALICE: Duncan!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 17 are women's.
92 lines from women, 454 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 46 men in the cast. 2 women and 30 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 591.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 83 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 13% of the words (886), men 87% (6,149). Women have 17% 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
5
Two men
38
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Michael Mann (man)
- Written by
- Michael Mann (man), Christopher Crowe (man)
- From the novel by
- James Fenimore Cooper (man)
- Produced by
- Hunt Lowry (man), Michael Mann (man)
- Shot by
- Dante Spinotti (man)
- Edited by
- Arthur Schmidt (man), Dov Hoenig (man)
- Music by
- Randy Edelman (man), Trevor Jones (man)
- Production design by
- Wolf Kroeger (man)
- Costumes by
- Richard La Motte (man), Elsa Zamparelli (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Susie Figgis (woman), Bonnie Timmermann (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Sound
6 women, 43 men, 14 not listed
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Other crew
4 women, 32 men, 14 not listed
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Production
9 women, 10 men, 17 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 19 men, 16 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
9 women, 4 men, 14 not listed
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Art
2 women, 10 men, 14 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 6 men, 9 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 5 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 26 on average. Men: 40 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jodhi May 17, Madeleine Stowe 34
Men
Steven Waddington 24, Eric Schweig 25, Daniel Day-Lewis 35, Colm Meaney 39, Wes Studi 44, Pete Postlethwaite 46, Russell Means 52, Maurice Roëves 55
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $75.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 102 scenes and 591 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
