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Die Hard (1988) movie poster

Film Profile · DIE-HARD

Die Hard

1988Action / ThrillerAction2h 12m
Detections85,840
Night Frames98%
Dialogue WPM57
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-39% vs genre
39.7/100

Bright

Action Intensity+1% vs genre
51/100

Moderate

People Density-1% vs genre
51/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
54% indoor

Balanced · 53.9% indoors

Object Diversity
75/100

High

Pacing
0.8 cuts/min

Dynamic · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

Six axes overlaid against the average for this film's primary genre.

DARKNESS80ACTION51DIALOGUE51PEOPLE51VEHICLES4VISUAL41
Die HardAction avg · 28 titles

THE ARC

Motion & brightness across the runtime

Hover to scrub. Spikes mark high-action sequences. Dips reveal quiet stretches.

Motion Intensity
Brightness
People
0:00 → 132m
02550751000m33m66m99m132m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

Three-act split — how the visual tone shifts from setup through climax.

ACT 1 · SETUP
●night dominates38%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●night dominates36%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates37%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

The single most-intense minute and longest stretch of stillness.

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
29:30
motion 81/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 1525.5s at 40:01
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

Frame-sampled palette — temperature, saturation, and how the look shifts across the runtime.

Temperatureneutral
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled6,336
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#323949
32.8%
#4C2E27
26.2%
#595157
22.3%
#687892
8.0%
#CBD1D4
5.6%
#A67A64
5.2%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#404351
#9E6343
#583121
#9B8986
#DACBBC
Intimate scenes
#463833
#28334B
#9C8171
#605455
#653722
Night scenes
#2F3749
#4D302A
#54525C
#827D87
#CCD1D6
Outdoor scenes
#453536
#63595F
#283955
#898895
#D0D4D5
Suspense scenes
#483D3D
#442F27
#635556
#8D7A78
#C6C5C5
Vibrant scenes
#20467F
#7D2B23
#AF693D
#569AC6
#05AAC2

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

The four most-present objects — full breakdown with categories in Deep Dive.

Tie17%
Chair5%
Police car1%
Car4%
+ 6 more · person in 82% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

Top 3 actors by screen time, color-coded by dominant emotion.

AR
Alan Rickman
Hans Gruber
13.4m · angry
BW
Bruce Willis
John McClane
10.6m · sad
RV
Reginald VelJohnson
Al Powell
7.5m · fear
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Die Hard (1988)

Insights surfaced by machine analysis of every frame, audio track, and object.

  • Die Hard exceeds the close-up usage average of all Action films by a startling margin of 33%.
  • 3,624 unique people spotted (82% of frames)
  • "man" is said 31 times — once every 4.3 minutes.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 4 min 1 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • 62 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 128 seconds.
  • Only 5.7% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • At 125 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 2,053 unique words spoken out of 7,563 total — a vocabulary richness of 27.1%.
  • AI detected 75 unique object types across 85,840 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 654 unique ties spotted (17% of frames)
  • 288 unique chairs spotted (5% of frames)
  • 248 unique cars spotted (4% of frames)
  • 211 unique cell phones spotted (4% of frames)
  • 111 unique potted plants spotted (3% of frames)
  • 105 unique tvs spotted (2% of frames)
  • 104 unique trucks spotted (2% of frames)
  • 62 unique bottles spotted (1% of frames)
  • 97.6% of the movie takes place at night
  • Features 212 dog appearances
  • Contains 62 profanities (0.5 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 4 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • 57% of frames are close-ups
  • The film's emotional journey ends on a neutral note

DIALOGUE

Words across the runtime

Volume and pace at a glance. Top vocabulary and per-act WPM in Deep Dive.

51% dialogue49% silence / score
7,563
total words
57
words / min
62 · 0.8%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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