Passes the Bechdel test

Unforgiven

Name: Unforgiven
Released: 1992

1992. Directed by Clint Eastwood, written by David Webb Peoples.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
6 women characters. 5 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 107.
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

After escaping death by the skin of her teeth, the horribly disfigured prostitute, Delilah Fitzgerald, and her appalled and equally furious co-workers summon up the courage to seek retribution in 1880s Wyoming's dangerous town of Big Whiskey. With a hefty bounty on the perpetrators' heads, triggered by the tough Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's insufficient sense of justice, the infamous former outlaw and now destitute Kansas hog farmer, William Munny, embarks on a murderous last mission to find the men behind the hideous crime. Along with his old partner-in-crime, Ned Logan, and the brash but inexperienced young gunman, the "Schofield Kid", Munny enters a perilous world he has renounced many years ago, knowing that he walks right into a deadly trap; however, he still needs to find a way to raise his motherless children. Now, blood demands blood. Who is the hero, and who is the villain?

Released: 07 Aug 1992
Genres: Drama, Western
Rated: R
IMDb: 8.2 / 10
Metascore: 85 / 100
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. 52 wins & 47 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Munny 239 lines, man
Little Bill 132 lines, man
The Kid 126 lines, man
Ned 104 lines, man
Alice 35 lines, woman
Skinny 31 lines, man
English Bob 29 lines, man
Davey 20 lines, man
Delilah 20 lines, woman
Little Sue 19 lines, woman

Full cast, 42 people

Clint Eastwood as William Munny
Gene Hackman as 'Little' Bill Daggett
Morgan Freeman as Ned Logan
Jaimz Woolvett as The Schofield Kid
Richard Harris as English Bob
Saul Rubinek as W.W. Beauchamp
Frances Fisher as Strawberry Alice
Anna Thomson as Delilah Fitzgerald
David Mucci as Quick Mike
Rob Campbell as Davey Bunting
Anthony James as Skinny Dubois
Tara Frederick as Little Sue
Beverley Elliott as Silky
Liisa Repo-Martell as Faith
Shane Meier as Will Munny
Aline Levasseur as Penny Munny
Cherrilene Cardinal as Sally Two Trees
Josie Smith as Crow Creek Kate
Robert Koons as Crocker
Ron White as Clyde Ledbetter
Mina E. Mina as Muddy Chandler
Henry Kope as German Joe Schultz
Jeremy Ratchford as Deputy Andy Russell
John Pyper-Ferguson as Charley Hecker
Jefferson Mappin as Fatty Rossiter
Walter Marsh as Barber
Garner Butler as Eggs Anderson
Larry Reese as Tom Luckinbill
Blair Haynes as Paddy McGee
Frank C. Turner as Fuzzy
Sam Karas as Thirsty Thurston
Lochlyn Munro as Texas Slim
Ben Cardinal as Johnny Foley
Philip Maurice Hayes as Lippy MacGregor
Michael Charrois as Wiggens
William Davidson as Buck Barthol (as Bill Davidson)
Paul Anthony McLean as Train Person #1
James Herman as Train Person #2
Michael Maurer as Train Person #3
Larry Joshua as Bucky
George Orrison as The Shadow
Greg Goossen as Fighter

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 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 107

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	4	8
4 to 6	8	27
7 to 9	11	36
10 to 12	0	5
13 to 15	1	7
16 to 18	0	7
19 to 21	2	33
22 to 24	0	17
25 to 27	0	22
28 to 30	0	14
31 to 33	0	39
34 to 36	0	63
37 to 39	0	37
40 to 42	0	40
43 to 45	0	34
46 to 48	5	22
49 to 51	4	3
52 to 54	1	41
55 to 57	6	7
58 to 60	4	23
61 to 63	0	32
64 to 66	16	24
67 to 69	0	7
70 to 72	0	8
73 to 75	0	14
76 to 78	0	8
79 to 81	0	19
82 to 84	0	27
85 to 87	7	9
88 to 90	0	18
91 to 93	0	25
94 to 96	0	7
97 to 99	14	53
100 to 102	0	31
103 to 105	0	12
106 to 107	0	15

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

ALICE: With what Kate got, Silky got some, an' mine, an' Little S... SILKY: It ain't enough. ALICE: Not yet, maybe.

ALICE: Nobody's gonna come. FAITH: Huh? ALICE: After what Little Bill done to the Englishman.

SILKY: You're gonna use it all up before you get it. ALICE: No more advances on what you ain't done yet.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 9 are women's.

83 lines from women, 794 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 28 men in the cast. 5 women and 21 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 318 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 9% of the words (883), men 91% (8,779).

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

1 of the 10 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Clint Eastwood (man)
Written by: David Webb Peoples (man)
Produced by: Clint Eastwood (man)
Shot by: Jack N. Green (man)
Edited by: Joel Cox (man)
Music by: Lennie Niehaus (man)
Production design by: Henry Bumstead (man)
Cast by: Phyllis Huffman (woman), Stuart Aikins (man), Lorelei Kuchera (gender not listed)