Fails the Bechdel test
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014. Directed by Bryan Singer, written by Simon Kinberg and Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
16 women characters. 6 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
In the future, the mutants and the humans who help them are slaughtered by powerful robots named Sentinels. Professor Xavier, Wolverine, Magneto, Storm, Kitty Pryde, and her friends meet at a monastery in China and Xavier explains that the invincible Sentinels were created using the DNA of Mystique that was captured in 1973 when she tried to assassinate their creator Dr. Bolivar Trask. Xavier tells that their only chance is return to 1973 using Pryde's ability to join Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr to convince Mystique to give up her intention. However, only Wolverine can withstand the damages of the time travel. Will he succeed in stopping Mystique and the Sentinel Program, and save the mutants and their human friends from annihilation?
- Released
- 23 May 2014
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 7.9 / 10
- Metascore
- 75 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 16 wins & 48 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Logan 124 lines, man
- Charles 120 lines, man
- Erik 79 lines, man
- Hank 54 lines, man
- Xavier 44 lines, man
- Raven 41 lines, woman
- Trask 41 lines, man
- Kitty 18 lines
- Magneto 17 lines, man
- Bobby 15 lines, man
Full cast, 83 people
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
- James McAvoy as Charles Xavier
- Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr
- Patrick Stewart as Professor X
- Ian McKellen as Magneto
- Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique
- Halle Berry as Storm
- Nicholas Hoult as Hank / Beast
- Anna Paquin as Rogue
- Elliot Page as Kitty Pryde
- Peter Dinklage as Dr. Bolivar Trask
- Shawn Ashmore as Bobby / Iceman
- Omar Sy as Bishop
- Evan Peters as Peter / Quicksilver
- Josh Helman as William Stryker
- Daniel Cudmore as Colossus
- Fan Bingbing as Blink
- Adan Canto as Sunspot
- Booboo Stewart as Warpath
- Evan Jonigkeit as Toad
- Famke Janssen as Jean Grey
- James Marsden as Scott Summers
- Lucas Till as Havok
- Mark Camacho as President Richard Nixon
- Zehra Leverman as Ms. Maximoff
- Alexander Felici as Young Mutant Scavenger
- Jan Gerste as Gwen
- Massimo Cannistraro as Ramone
- Mike Dopud as Pinstripe Mafioso
- Lee Villeneuve as Black Coast Mafioso
- Andreas Apergis as Col. Sanders
- Robert Montcalm as Vietnam MP Guard
- Gregg Lowe as Ink
- Jaa Smith-Johnson as Mutant Soldier
- Alex Ivanovici as Quarantine Doctor
- Alain Dahan as Quarantine Doctor #2
- Freddy Bessa as Quarantine Doctor #3
- Patricia Tougas as Quarantine Nurse
- Michael Lerner as Senator Brickman
- Chris Claremont as Congressman Parker
- Len Wein as Congresman Davis
- François Paquette as Congressman McCarter
- Zabryna Guevara as Trask Secretary
- Angela Galuppo as Pentagon Tour Guide
- Milo Chang Sigel as Pentagon Young Boy
- Kiana Chang Sigel as Pentagon Young Girl
- Victor Cornfoot as Surveillance Guard
- Brent Skagford as Surveillance Guard
- Kyle Gatehouse as Pentagon Cook
- John-Sébastien Côté as Mustachioed Kitchen Guard
- Stéphane Julien as Kitchen Guard
- Taris Tyler as Pentagon Elevator Guard
- Darryl Scheelar as Armed Kitchen Guard
- Thai-Hoa Le as General Nhuan
- Johnny Tran as Vietnamese Captain
- Gregory Hlady as General Petrov
- Dang Quoc Thinh as Vietnamese Translator
- Vladimir Aksenov as Russian Translator
- Jimmy Chan as Chinese Translator
- Julian Casey as Peace Summit Reporter
- Robert Crooks as Nixon Aide
- Matt Cooke as Secretary of Defense
- Tim Post as US Army General
- Jason Deline as Desk Anchor
- Karine Vanasse as French Emergency Nurse
- Pierre Leblanc as French TV Reporter
- Jude Beny as Female Traveler
- Arthur Holden as Blue Suit Traveler
- Sean Curley as Airport Backpacker
- Susanna Fournier as Flight Attendant
- Andrew Peplowski as White House Reporter
- John Sanford Moore as White House Lawn Reporter
- Moe Jeudy-Lamour as White House Ticket Man
- Harry Standjofski as Groundskeeper
- Brianna Bone as Red Haired Girl
- Neil Napier as Secret Service Agent
- Jason Koehler as White House Stage Guard
- Miya Shelton-Contreras as Peter's Little Sister
- Mizinga Mwinga as Potomac River Cop #1
- Christian Jadah as Potomac River Cop #2
- Brendan Pedder as En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse (uncredited)
- Bryan Singer as Man with Small Film Camera (uncredited)
- Kelsey Grammer as Hank McCoy / Beast (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 208
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 to 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 to 15 | 3 | 29 |
| 16 to 20 | 0 | 29 |
| 21 to 25 | 0 | 10 |
| 26 to 30 | 2 | 47 |
| 31 to 35 | 0 | 18 |
| 36 to 40 | 0 | 31 |
| 41 to 45 | 0 | 6 |
| 46 to 50 | 0 | 23 |
| 51 to 55 | 0 | 25 |
| 56 to 60 | 1 | 4 |
| 61 to 65 | 0 | 31 |
| 66 to 70 | 7 | 30 |
| 71 to 75 | 2 | 36 |
| 76 to 80 | 0 | 1 |
| 81 to 85 | 1 | 7 |
| 86 to 90 | 0 | 5 |
| 91 to 95 | 0 | 6 |
| 96 to 100 | 4 | 22 |
| 101 to 105 | 0 | 9 |
| 106 to 110 | 0 | 39 |
| 111 to 115 | 3 | 22 |
| 116 to 120 | 13 | 45 |
| 121 to 125 | 0 | 7 |
| 126 to 130 | 2 | 5 |
| 131 to 135 | 1 | 4 |
| 136 to 140 | 3 | 4 |
| 141 to 145 | 2 | 0 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 18 |
| 151 to 155 | 3 | 14 |
| 156 to 160 | 4 | 8 |
| 161 to 165 | 0 | 8 |
| 166 to 170 | 0 | 3 |
| 171 to 175 | 0 | 1 |
| 176 to 180 | 2 | 7 |
| 181 to 185 | 1 | 4 |
| 186 to 190 | 1 | 2 |
| 191 to 195 | 1 | 17 |
| 196 to 200 | 1 | 4 |
| 201 to 205 | 3 | 27 |
| 206 to 208 | 0 | 1 |
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, 9 are women's.
60 lines from women, 612 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
16 women and 62 men in the cast. 6 women and 28 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 9 of 732.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 148 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 6% of the words (388), men 94% (6,165). Women have 9% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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
65
Exhibit E: behind the camera
5 of the 17 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 28% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Bryan Singer (man)
- Written by
- Simon Kinberg (man)
- Story by
- Matthew Vaughn (man), Simon Kinberg (man), Jane Goldman (woman)
- Produced by
- Bryan Singer (man), Simon Kinberg (man), Lauren Shuler Donner (woman), Hutch Parker (man)
- Shot by
- Newton Thomas Sigel (man)
- Edited by
- John Ottman (man)
- Music by
- John Ottman (man)
- Production design by
- John Myhre (man)
- Costumes by
- Louise Mingenbach (woman)
- Cast by
- Roger Mussenden (man), Andrea Kenyon (woman), Randi Wells (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
4 women, 16 men, 6 not listed
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Visual Effects
3 women, 13 men, 10 not listed
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Production
6 women, 11 men, 3 not listed
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Sound
4 women, 10 men, 4 not listed
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Art
3 women, 6 men, 6 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 4 men, 5 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 48 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jennifer Lawrence 23, Anna Paquin 31, Halle Berry 47
Men
Nicholas Hoult 24, James McAvoy 35, Michael Fassbender 37, Hugh Jackman 45, Patrick Stewart 73, Ian McKellen 74
Exhibit G: the money
It made 3.0 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $250 million
- Box office
- $748 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 208 scenes and 732 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
