Passes the Bechdel test
Top Gun: Maverick
2022. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, written by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
10 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 213. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Set 30 years after its predecessor, it follows Maverick's return to the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (also known as U.S. Navy-Fighter Weapons School - "TOPGUN"), where he must confront his past as he trains a group of younger pilots, among them the son of Maverick's deceased best friend Lieutenant Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, USN.
- Released
- 27 May 2022
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 8.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 78 / 100
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 114 wins & 237 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Maverick 448 lines, man
- Rooster 153 lines, man
- Penny 89 lines, woman
- Hondo 80 lines, man
- Cyclone 70 lines, man
- Phoenix 66 lines, woman
- Hangman 65 lines, man
- Bob 42 lines, man
- Warlock 40 lines, man
- Payback 33 lines, man
Full cast, 44 people
- Tom Cruise as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
- Miles Teller as Lt. Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw
- Jennifer Connelly as Penny Benjamin
- Bashir Salahuddin as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
- Jon Hamm as Adm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson
- Charles Parnell as Adm. Solomon 'Warlock' Bates
- Monica Barbaro as Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace
- Lewis Pullman as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
- Jay Ellis as Lt. Reuben 'Payback' Fitch
- Danny Ramirez as Lt. Mickey 'Fanboy' Garcia
- Glen Powell as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
- Val Kilmer as Adm. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky
- Jack Schumacher as Lt. Neil 'Omaha' Vikander
- Manny Jacinto as Lt. Billy 'Fritz' Avalone
- Kara Wang as Lt. Callie 'Halo' Bassett
- Greg Tarzan Davis as Lt. Javy 'Coyote' Machado
- Jake Picking as Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox
- Raymond Lee as Lt. Logan 'Yale' Lee
- Jean Louisa Kelly as Sarah Kazansky
- Lyliana Wray as Amelia
- Ed Harris as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- Chelsea Harris as Admiral's Aide
- Darnell Kirkwood as Comms-Crew Tech
- Austin Bowerman as Comms-Crew Tech
- Stephanie Andrea Barron as Comms-Crew Tech
- Alec Williams as Cain's Aide
- Rachel Winfree as Waitress
- Peter Mark Kendall as Meek Engineer
- Ian Gary as Jaded Engineer
- Bob Stephenson as Senior Engineer
- Landon Gordon as Kid in Truck Stop
- Margaret Strabala as Air Control Officer
- Ryan Heilmann as Air Control Officer
- Shantel Limbo as Staff Seargeant
- James Handy as Bartender (Jimmy)
- Whylip Lee as Fuel
- Tristan Henry as Surfaces
- Jason Robert Boles as Mini Boss
- Brian Ferguson as Fighter Pilot in Bar
- Chido Nwokocha as Mission Controller
- Chaz Ingram as Mission Controller
- Rachael Markarian as Mission Controller
- Shannon Kane as Mission Controller
- Norman Ralph Eliasen as Mission Controller
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 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 213
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 to 10 | 0 | 37 |
| 11 to 15 | 0 | 56 |
| 16 to 20 | 0 | 16 |
| 21 to 25 | 0 | 11 |
| 26 to 30 | 0 | 7 |
| 31 to 35 | 0 | 17 |
| 36 to 40 | 38 | 99 |
| 41 to 45 | 1 | 34 |
| 46 to 50 | 2 | 43 |
| 51 to 55 | 4 | 8 |
| 56 to 60 | 4 | 13 |
| 61 to 65 | 3 | 11 |
| 66 to 70 | 2 | 16 |
| 71 to 75 | 0 | 21 |
| 76 to 80 | 0 | 6 |
| 81 to 85 | 4 | 12 |
| 86 to 90 | 37 | 51 |
| 91 to 95 | 2 | 10 |
| 96 to 100 | 2 | 50 |
| 101 to 105 | 3 | 23 |
| 106 to 110 | 23 | 28 |
| 111 to 115 | 1 | 7 |
| 116 to 120 | 0 | 10 |
| 121 to 125 | 4 | 29 |
| 126 to 130 | 9 | 9 |
| 131 to 135 | 3 | 11 |
| 136 to 140 | 6 | 36 |
| 141 to 145 | 1 | 6 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 9 |
| 151 to 155 | 0 | 5 |
| 156 to 160 | 0 | 9 |
| 161 to 165 | 1 | 31 |
| 166 to 170 | 1 | 10 |
| 171 to 175 | 4 | 18 |
| 176 to 180 | 3 | 58 |
| 181 to 185 | 3 | 17 |
| 186 to 190 | 0 | 21 |
| 191 to 195 | 0 | 46 |
| 196 to 200 | 0 | 66 |
| 201 to 205 | 0 | 14 |
| 206 to 210 | 1 | 35 |
| 211 to 213 | 11 | 12 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
PHOENIX: That’s not the question you should be asking. Everybody here is the best there is. Who the hell are they gonna get to teach us? PENNY: It’s been declined.
PENNY: Finish up. We need to get the boat to the yard. AMELIA: I can’t go. PENNY: What do you mean you can’t go? AMELIA: Test tomorrow. I have to study. They only told us today.
AMELIA: Mom, is that you? PENNY: Yeah. Yeah, it’s me, all right.
AMELIA: Mom, I’m home. PENNY: Thought you were staying at Karen’s tonight. AMELIA: Karen’s sick and I have homework to do.
PENNY: Yeah. PENNY: Did you have dinner? AMELIA: Not yet. Wanna go out? PENNY: No, no. I’ll make you something.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 14 are women's.
173 lines from women, 1031 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
10 women and 28 men in the cast. 5 women and 24 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 231 of 1,318.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 230 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 12% of the words (1,268), men 88% (9,185). Women have 14% 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
7
Two men
120
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 18 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Joseph Kosinski (man)
- Written by
- Eric Warren Singer (man), Ehren Kruger (man), Christopher McQuarrie (man)
- Story by
- Justin Marks (man), Peter Craig (man)
- Produced by
- Christopher McQuarrie (man), Jerry Bruckheimer (man), David Ellison (man), Tom Cruise (man)
- Shot by
- Claudio Miranda (man)
- Edited by
- Eddie Hamilton (man)
- Music by
- Lady Gaga (woman), Harold Faltermeyer (man), Hans Zimmer (man)
- Production design by
- Jeremy Hindle (man)
- Costumes by
- Marlene Stewart (woman)
- Cast by
- Denise Chamian (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
8 women, 51 men, 40 not listed
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Sound
16 women, 62 men, 21 not listed
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Production
21 women, 23 men, 24 not listed
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Art
4 women, 22 men, 24 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 19 men, 15 not listed
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Visual Effects
2 women, 8 men, 21 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
10 women, 6 men, 13 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 4 men, 10 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 42 on average. Men: 43 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Monica Barbaro 32, Jennifer Connelly 51
Men
Lewis Pullman 29, Danny Ramirez 29, Miles Teller 35, Jay Ellis 40, Bashir Salahuddin 45, Jon Hamm 51, Charles Parnell 57, Tom Cruise 59
Exhibit H: the money
It made 8.8 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $170 million
- Box office
- $1.5 billion
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 213 scenes and 1,318 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
