Fails the Bechdel test
Wanted
2008. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas and Chris Morgan.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 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
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.
- Released
- 27 Jun 2008
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 64 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 28 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Wesley 249 lines, man
- Fox 125 lines, woman
- Sloan 79 lines, man
- Anna 18 lines
- Nicole 14 lines, woman
- The Pharmacist 9 lines, man
- Cathy 8 lines, woman
- Boss Janice 7 lines, woman
- The Butcher 7 lines, man
- Brokaw 6 lines
Full cast, 21 people
- James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson
- Angelina Jolie as Fox
- Morgan Freeman as Sloan
- Terence Stamp as Pekwarsky
- Thomas Kretschmann as Cross
- Common as The Gunsmith
- Kristen Hager as Cathy
- Marc Warren as The Repairman
- David O'Hara as Mr. X
- Dato Bakhtadze as The Butcher
- Konstantin Khabensky as The Exterminator
- Chris Pratt as Barry
- Lorna Scott as Janice
- Sophiya Haque as Puya
- Brian Caspe as The Pharmacist
- Mark O'Neal as Co-Worker
- Bridget McManus as Check-Out Girl
- Brad Calcaterra as Assassin (uncredited)
- Mike Whyte as Businessman (uncredited)
- Claudia DiBiccari as Pedestrian (uncredited)
- Julia Copeland as Driver (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% 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 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 9 | 5 | 5 |
| 10 to 12 | 6 | 8 |
| 13 to 15 | 2 | 12 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 3 |
| 19 to 21 | 3 | 6 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 4 |
| 25 to 27 | 22 | 16 |
| 28 to 30 | 8 | 19 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 3 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 25 |
| 40 to 42 | 9 | 11 |
| 43 to 45 | 5 | 8 |
| 46 to 48 | 5 | 29 |
| 49 to 51 | 10 | 5 |
| 52 to 54 | 8 | 4 |
| 55 to 57 | 8 | 8 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 25 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 14 |
| 64 to 66 | 6 | 23 |
| 67 to 69 | 12 | 10 |
| 70 to 72 | 10 | 19 |
| 73 to 75 | 9 | 33 |
| 76 to 78 | 6 | 9 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 12 |
| 82 to 84 | 15 | 13 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 1 |
| 88 to 90 | 2 | 8 |
| 91 to 93 | 6 | 10 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 1 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 2 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 31 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 3 |
| 106 to 107 | 0 | 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, 29 are women's.
157 lines from women, 393 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 14 men in the cast. 4 women and 11 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 15 of 658.
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 31% of the words (3,665), men 69% (8,120). Women have 29% 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
1
Two men
26
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Timur Bekmambetov (man)
- Written by
- Michael Brandt (man), Derek Haas (man), Chris Morgan (man)
- Produced by
- Jim Lemley (man), Iain Smith (man), Jason Netter (man), Marc Platt (man)
- Shot by
- Mitchell Amundsen (man)
- Edited by
- David Brenner (man)
- Music by
- Danny Elfman (man)
- Production design by
- John Myhre (man)
- Costumes by
- Varvara Avdyushko (woman)
- Cast by
- Mindy Marin (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Other crew
9 women, 46 men, 2 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
9 women, 3 men, 5 not listed
-
Production
3 women, 12 men
-
Art
0 women, 8 men, 5 not listed
-
Visual Effects
0 women, 7 men, 1 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 5 men, 1 not listed
-
Directing
0 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
-
Sound
0 women, 5 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 29 on average. Men: 47 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kristen Hager 25, Angelina Jolie 33
Men
James McAvoy 29, Common 36, Marc Warren 41, David O'Hara 42, Dato Bakhtadze 42, Thomas Kretschmann 45, Terence Stamp 69, Morgan Freeman 71
Exhibit G: the money
It made 4.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $75 million
- Box office
- $342 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 107 scenes and 658 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
