Passes the Bechdel test
X2: X-Men United
2003. Directed by Bryan Singer, written by Zak Penn and David Hayter and Bryan Singer.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
19 women characters. 9 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 162. -
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
Several months have passed since the X-Men defeated Magneto and imprisoned him in a seemingly impregnable plastic chamber. One day, a mutant by the name of Nightcrawler infiltrates the White House and attempts to assassinate the President, setting off a chain reaction of anti-mutant measures by the government. Meanwhile, Logan is trying to discover his past. As scientist named William Stryker discovers Professor X's secret school and Cerebro, Magneto's partner, Mystique, is planning to break her leader out of prison. But when Professor X's school is attacked by Stryker's forces, Logan, Rogue, Iceman, and a few are lucky to escape. Those who remain meet in Boston, where they form an uneasy alliance with Magneto to stop Stryker and rescue Professor X.
- Released
- 02 May 2003
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 7.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 68 / 100
- Awards
- 6 wins & 41 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Logan 73 lines, man
- Xavier 58 lines, man
- Stryker 55 lines, man
- Jean Grey 48 lines, woman
- Storm 47 lines, woman
- Magneto 43 lines, man
- Rogue 27 lines, woman
- Bobby 24 lines, man
- Nightcrawler 19 lines, man
- Pyro 19 lines, man
Full cast, 73 people
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
- Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier
- Ian McKellen as Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
- James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops
- Brian Cox as William Stryker
- Famke Janssen as Jean Grey
- Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm
- Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- Aaron Stanford as John Allerdyce / Pyro
- Rebecca Romijn as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
- Shawn Ashmore as Bobby Drake / Ice Man
- Anna Paquin as Rogue
- Kelly Hu as Yuriko Oyama / Deathstrike
- Michael Reid MacKay as Jason 143
- Bruce Davison as Senator Kelly
- Katie Stuart as Kitty Pryde
- Ty Olsson as Mitchell Laurio
- Daniel Cudmore as Piotr Rasputin / Colossus
- Cotter Smith as President McKenna
- James Kirk as Ronny Drake
- Jill Teed as Madeline Drake
- Alf Humphreys as William Drake
- Kea Wong as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee
- Chiara Zanni as White House Tour Guide
- Jackie A. Greenbank as President's Secretary
- Michael Soltis as White House Checkpoint Agent
- Michael David Simms as White House Agent (Lead Agent)
- David Fabrizio as Oval Office Agent Fabrizio
- Roger Cross as Oval Office Agent Cartwright
- Richard Bradshaw as Special Ops Agent
- Bryce Hodgson as Artie
- Glen Curtis as Museum Teenager #1
- Greg Rikaart as Museum Teenager #2
- Shauna Kain as Theresa Rourke / Siryn
- Alfonso Quijada as Federal Bldg. Cleaning Twin #1
- Rene Quijada as Federal Bldg. Cleaning Twin #2
- Brad Loree as Stryker at age 40
- Sheri G. Feldman as Augmentation Room Doctor
- Connor Widdows as Jones
- Peter Wingfield as Stryker Soldier Lyman
- Charles Siegel as Dr. Shaw
- Steve Bacic as Dr. Hank McCoy
- Michasha Armstrong as Plastic Prison Guard
- Robert Hayley as Cop
- Mark Lukyn as Cop #1 (Lead Cop)
- Kendall Cross as Cop #2
- Keely Purvis as Little Girl 143
- Dylan Kussman as Stryker Soldier Wilkins
- Jason S. Whitmer as Stryker Soldier Smith
- Aaron Pearl as Stryker Soldier
- Aaron Douglas as Stryker Soldier
- Colin Lawrence as Stryker Soldier
- Richard C. Burton as Stryker Soldier
- Michael Joycelyn as Stryker Soldier
- Nolan Gerard Funk as X-Kid (captured)
- Devin Douglas Drewitz as X-Kid (captured)
- Jermaine Lopez as X-Kid (captured)
- Sideah Alladice as X-Kid (captured)
- Kurt Max Runte as Chief of Staff Abrahams
- Benjamin Glenday as Cameraman
- Lori Stewart as F-16 Fighter Pilot
- Ted Friend as News Reporter
- Mi-Jung Lee as News Reporter
- Marrett Green as News Reporter
- Jill Krop as News Reporter
- Brian Peck as News Reporter
- Layke Anderson as Douglas Ramsey / Cypher
- Michael Dougherty as Surgeon
- Dan Harris as Surgeon
- Bryan Singer as Prison Security Officer (uncredited)
- Nikita Ramsey as Twin X-Kid (uncredited)
- Jade Ramsey as Twin X-Kid (uncredited)
- Valerie Tian as X-Kid at Museum (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 13% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 162
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 to 8 | 22 | 33 |
| 9 to 12 | 9 | 34 |
| 13 to 16 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 to 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 to 24 | 4 | 0 |
| 25 to 28 | 6 | 3 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 10 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 17 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 2 |
| 45 to 48 | 1 | 0 |
| 49 to 52 | 3 | 2 |
| 53 to 56 | 3 | 7 |
| 57 to 60 | 2 | 3 |
| 61 to 64 | 2 | 16 |
| 65 to 68 | 1 | 20 |
| 69 to 72 | 1 | 2 |
| 73 to 76 | 1 | 18 |
| 77 to 80 | 14 | 11 |
| 81 to 84 | 3 | 19 |
| 85 to 88 | 3 | 5 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 1 |
| 93 to 96 | 3 | 0 |
| 97 to 100 | 7 | 6 |
| 101 to 104 | 14 | 21 |
| 105 to 108 | 7 | 30 |
| 109 to 112 | 3 | 15 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 0 |
| 117 to 120 | 2 | 1 |
| 121 to 124 | 6 | 5 |
| 125 to 128 | 7 | 10 |
| 129 to 132 | 1 | 4 |
| 133 to 136 | 1 | 8 |
| 137 to 140 | 6 | 8 |
| 141 to 144 | 9 | 16 |
| 145 to 148 | 14 | 9 |
| 149 to 152 | 1 | 3 |
| 153 to 156 | 1 | 5 |
| 157 to 160 | 0 | 0 |
| 161 to 162 | 0 | 17 |
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.
JEAN GREY: We're coming up on the mansion now. A. MONITORsuddenly displays TWOFAST MOVINGRED BLIPS. STORM: We've got two signals, COJning in fast.
STORM: Ca.n you stop them? JEAN GREY: I'll try. Jean concentrates hard. Storm yanks the stick back.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 30 are women's.
160 lines from women, 366 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
19 women and 45 men in the cast. 9 women and 26 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 5 of 606.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 35 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 30% of the words (2,273), men 70% (5,205).
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
15
Two men
41
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 21% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Bryan Singer (man)
- Written by
- Michael Dougherty (man), Dan Harris (man), David Hayter (man)
- Story by
- David Hayter (man), Zak Penn (man), Bryan Singer (man)
- Produced by
- Lauren Shuler Donner (woman), Ralph Winter (man)
- Shot by
- Newton Thomas Sigel (man)
- Edited by
- Elliot Graham (man), John Ottman (man)
- Music by
- John Ottman (man)
- Production design by
- Guy Hendrix Dyas (man)
- Costumes by
- Louise Mingenbach (woman)
- Cast by
- Roger Mussenden (man)
The crew, department by department
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Art
4 women, 3 men, 9 not listed
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Sound
3 women, 11 men, 2 not listed
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Production
1 women, 12 men, 2 not listed
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Other crew
3 women, 9 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 6 men, 3 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 7 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 35 on average. Men: 44 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Rebecca Romijn 30, Halle Berry 36, Famke Janssen 38
Men
Aaron Stanford 26, James Marsden 29, Hugh Jackman 34, Alan Cumming 38, Brian Cox 56, Patrick Stewart 62, Ian McKellen 63
Exhibit H: the money
It made 3.7 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $110 million
- Box office
- $408 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 162 scenes and 606 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
