Fails the Bechdel test

The Three Musketeers

Name: The Three Musketeers
Released: 1993

1993. Directed by Stephen Herek, written by Alexandre Dumas and David Loughery.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
4 women characters. 4 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

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos (Kiefer Sutherland), Porthos (Oliver Platt), and Aramis (Charlie Sheen) - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell), to stop Cardinal Richelieu's (Tim Curry's) evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Countess D'Winter (Rebecca De Mornay). Rochefort (Michael Wincott), the Cardinal's right-hand man, announces the official disbanding of the King's Musketeers. Three, however, refuse to throw down their swords - Athos, the fighter and drinker, Porthos, the pirate and lover, and Aramis, the priest and poet. Arriving in Paris to join the Musketeers, D'Artagnan uncovers the Cardinal's plans, and the four set out on a mission to protect King Louis (Hugh O'Conor) and France.

Released: 12 Nov 1993
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 43 / 100
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

D'Artagnan 197 lines, man
Athos 122 lines, man
Porthos 110 lines, man
Richelieu 99 lines, man
Aramis 98 lines, man
Milady 70 lines, woman
Rochefort 52 lines, man
Anne 46 lines, woman
Louis 39 lines, man
Constance 23 lines, woman

Full cast, 27 people

Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagnan
Kiefer Sutherland as Athos
Oliver Platt as Porthos
Charlie Sheen as Aramis
Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu
Rebecca De Mornay as Milady de Winter
Paul McGann as Girard / Jussac
Gabrielle Anwar as Queen Anne
Michael Wincott as Rochefort
Julie Delpy as Constance
Hugh O'Conor as King Louis XIII
Christopher Adamson as Henri
Philip Tan as Parker
Erwin Leder as Peasant
Axel Anselm as Musketeer
Bruno Thost as Seneschal #1
Oliver Hoppa as Seneschal #2
Emma Moore as Damsel
Herbert Fux as Innkeeper
Nichola Cordey as Barmaid
Sebastian Eckhardt as Armand de Winter
Maria Ford as Wench (uncredited)
Bob Anderson as King's Fencing Instructor (uncredited)
George Lane Cooper as Executioner (uncredited)
Christopher Leonard as Cardinal Guard (uncredited)
Christoph Leonhardt Müller as Cardinal Guard (uncredited)
Lubomir Misak as Girard's Brother (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 91

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	4
3 to 4	7	5
5 to 6	9	21
7 to 8	5	27
9 to 10	0	28
11 to 12	0	33
13 to 14	0	29
15 to 16	12	44
17 to 18	0	4
19 to 20	4	6
21 to 22	0	1
23 to 24	0	80
25 to 26	0	24
27 to 28	3	7
29 to 30	0	37
31 to 32	5	32
33 to 34	0	21
35 to 36	0	18
37 to 38	0	17
39 to 40	0	8
41 to 42	0	64
43 to 44	28	15
45 to 46	12	12
47 to 48	0	17
49 to 50	2	38
51 to 52	0	21
53 to 54	20	19
55 to 56	20	25
57 to 58	1	1
59 to 60	4	4
61 to 62	2	2
63 to 64	0	15
65 to 66	0	10
67 to 68	6	12
69 to 70	10	22
71 to 72	0	5
73 to 74	0	0
75 to 76	0	0
77 to 78	3	10
79 to 80	0	3
81 to 82	2	1
83 to 84	0	0
85 to 86	0	0
87 to 88	0	1
89 to 90	1	16
91 to 91	1	26

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, 17 are women's.

157 lines from women, 785 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

4 women and 17 men in the cast. 4 women and 17 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 9 of 966. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 170 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 18% of the words (1,731), men 82% (8,050). Women have 17% 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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

None of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 9% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Stephen Herek (man)
Written by: David Loughery (man)
From the novel by: Alexandre Dumas (man)
Produced by: Roger Birnbaum (man), Joe Roth (man)
Shot by: Dean Semler (man)
Edited by: John F. Link (man)
Music by: Michael Kamen (man)
Production design by: Wolf Kroeger (man)
Costumes by: John Mollo (man)
Cast by: Jeremy Zimmermann (man), Lucky Englander (gender not listed), Fritz Fleischhacker (man)