Fails the Bechdel test
The Mummy
2017. Directed by Alex Kurtzman, written by David Koepp and Christopher McQuarrie and Dylan Kussman.
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 2 out of 3.
The film
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.
- Released
- 09 Jun 2017
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 5.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 34 / 100
- Awards
- 4 wins & 19 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Tyler 235 lines, man
- Jenny 180 lines, woman
- Forster 72 lines, man
- Lorenzo 53 lines, man
- Malik 49 lines, man
- Ashurbanipal 21 lines, man
- Professor Sheppard 14 lines, man
- Belbasa 11 lines
- Rabbu 9 lines, man
- Dayan 8 lines, man
Full cast, 51 people
- Tom Cruise as Nick Morton
- Annabelle Wallis as Jennifer Halsey
- Sofia Boutella as Ahmanet
- Jake Johnson as Chris Vail
- Courtney B. Vance as Colonel Greenway
- Russell Crowe as Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
- Marwan Kenzari as Malik
- Neil Maskell as Dr. Whemple
- Javier Botet as Set
- Andrew Brooke as Mr. Brooke
- Selva Rasalingam as King Menehptre
- Shanina Shaik as Arabian Princess
- Dylan Smith as Pilot
- Hadrian Howard as MP
- Rez Kempton as Construction Manager
- Bella Ava Georgiou as Fourth Technician
- David Burnett as Tunnel Agent
- Stephen Thompson as First Man
- James Arama as Second Man
- Vera Chok as Prodigium Tech
- Sean Cameron Michael as Archaeologist
- Martin Bishop as Senior Technician
- Simon Atherton as Crusader
- Matthew Wilkas as Reporter
- Sohm Kapila as Reporter
- Erol Ismail as Ahmanet's Warrior
- Parker Sawyers as Co-Pilot
- Rhona Croker as Helen
- Timothy Allsop as Worker
- Grace Chilton as Woman in Toilet
- Hannah Ankrah as Woman in Toilet
- Dylan Kussman as Writer Tech
- Peter Lofsgard as Spider Technician
- Shane Zaza as Technician
- Alice Hewkin as Technician
- Daniel Tuite as Prodigium Technician
- Noof Ousellam as Technician in Chamber
- Maryam Grace as Female Tech
- Sonya Cullingford as Undead
- Fionn Cox-Davies as Undead
- Neus Gil Cortes as Undead
- Emily Thompson-Smith as Undead
- Stéphane Deheselle as Undead
- Madeleine Fairminer as Undead
- Michèle Paleta Rhyner as Undead
- Michael Haydon as Tourist (uncredited)
- Jason Matthewson as Museum Guy (uncredited)
- Kelly Burke as Museum Visitor (uncredited)
- Chasty Ballesteros as Kira Lee (uncredited)
- Emma Louise Saunders as Museum Visitor (uncredited)
- Alaa Safi as Sickle Slave
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 186
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 10 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 3 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 3 |
| 29 to 32 | 11 | 12 |
| 33 to 36 | 3 | 17 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 21 |
| 41 to 44 | 16 | 31 |
| 45 to 48 | 5 | 16 |
| 49 to 52 | 1 | 9 |
| 53 to 56 | 1 | 7 |
| 57 to 60 | 2 | 10 |
| 61 to 64 | 7 | 8 |
| 65 to 68 | 3 | 15 |
| 69 to 72 | 6 | 12 |
| 73 to 76 | 5 | 4 |
| 77 to 80 | 9 | 22 |
| 81 to 84 | 25 | 36 |
| 85 to 88 | 15 | 14 |
| 89 to 92 | 5 | 7 |
| 93 to 96 | 10 | 12 |
| 97 to 100 | 7 | 31 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 0 |
| 105 to 108 | 1 | 1 |
| 109 to 112 | 5 | 5 |
| 113 to 116 | 2 | 2 |
| 117 to 120 | 4 | 3 |
| 121 to 124 | 4 | 6 |
| 125 to 128 | 10 | 34 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 10 |
| 133 to 136 | 1 | 6 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 3 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 16 |
| 145 to 148 | 1 | 5 |
| 149 to 152 | 3 | 10 |
| 153 to 156 | 2 | 9 |
| 157 to 160 | 4 | 6 |
| 161 to 164 | 0 | 4 |
| 165 to 168 | 0 | 1 |
| 169 to 172 | 0 | 21 |
| 173 to 176 | 4 | 21 |
| 177 to 180 | 1 | 5 |
| 181 to 184 | 2 | 7 |
| 185 to 186 | 8 | 9 |
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, 27 are women's.
183 lines from women, 495 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
13 women and 27 men in the cast. 0 women and 2 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 60 of 747.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 59 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 28% of the words (1,772), men 72% (4,670). Women have 27% 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
65
Exhibit E: behind the camera
5 of the 18 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Alex Kurtzman (man)
- Written by
- Dylan Kussman (man), Christopher McQuarrie (man), David Koepp (man)
- Produced by
- Sean Daniel (man), Chris Morgan (man), Alex Kurtzman (man), Sarah Bradshaw (woman)
- Shot by
- Ben Seresin (man)
- Edited by
- Paul Hirsch (man), Gina Hirsch (woman), Andrew Mondshein (man)
- Music by
- Brian Tyler (man)
- Production design by
- Dominic Watkins (man), Jon Hutman (man)
- Costumes by
- Penny Rose (woman)
- Cast by
- Lucinda Syson (woman), Francine Maisler (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
3 women, 10 men, 12 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
7 women, 2 men, 13 not listed
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Art
3 women, 13 men, 4 not listed
-
Production
7 women, 6 men, 7 not listed
-
Camera
1 women, 11 men, 3 not listed
-
Visual Effects
0 women, 4 men, 11 not listed
-
Sound
1 women, 11 men, 2 not listed
-
Editing
1 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 45 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Annabelle Wallis 32, Sofia Boutella 35
Men
Marwan Kenzari 34, Jake Johnson 39, Javier Botet 39, Neil Maskell 41, Russell Crowe 53, Tom Cruise 54, Courtney B. Vance 57
Exhibit G: the money
It made 3.3 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $125 million
- Box office
- $409 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 186 scenes and 747 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
