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Film Profile · INCEPTION

Inception

2010Action / Sci-Fi / ThrillerAction2h 28m
Detections97,455
Night Frames99%
Dialogue WPM67
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-21% vs genre
51.4/100

Balanced

Action Intensity+2% vs genre
51/100

Moderate

People Density-9% vs genre
47/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
65% indoor

Indoor · 64.9% indoors

Object Diversity
79/100

High

Pacing
0.7 cuts/min

Dynamic · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS91ACTION51DIALOGUE37PEOPLE47VEHICLES6VISUAL42
InceptionAction 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 → 148m
02550751000m37m74m111m148m
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
●night dominates34%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
26:41
motion 109/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 1821.2s at 108:08
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled7,104
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#3F4247
22.5%
#4F2E1A
20.7%
#655A52
19.6%
#767A7A
18.2%
#9A9D95
13.9%
#D6D6C7
5.1%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#7B8286
#5F656E
#999D9B
#493F3D
#DACFB3
Intimate scenes
#473328
#565B5F
#888E8C
#79553C
#D5D3C4
Night scenes
#414346
#67625D
#512F1A
#8C8E88
#CDCEC0
Outdoor scenes
#424449
#696561
#8A8F8B
#51301C
#CBCBBD
Suspense scenes
#494846
#4F2E19
#6F6E68
#939995
#D6D9CF
Vibrant scenes
#714124
#996C3B
#9E4F10
#D1924A
#2B5B7A

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Tie16%
Chair11%
Car5%
Police car1%
+ 6 more · person in 85% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

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

LD
Leonardo DiCaprio
Dom Cobb
39.3m · angry
EP
Elliot Page
Ariadne
14.1m · sad
JG
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Arthur
11.2m · neutral
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Inception (2010)

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

  • Inception outranks 27 out of 27 Action films with a significantly darker tone, scoring 91 vs the genre average of 64 out of 100.
  • 4,326 unique people spotted (85% of frames)
  • "dream" is said 57 times — once every 2.6 minutes.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio is on screen for 39 of 148 minutes — 27% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 12 min 47 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • Only 1.4% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • At 134 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 2,240 unique words spoken out of 9,864 total — a vocabulary richness of 22.7%.
  • AI detected 79 unique object types across 97,455 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 789 unique chairs spotted (11% of frames)
  • 802 unique ties spotted (16% of frames)
  • 568 unique cars spotted (5% of frames)
  • 121 unique cups spotted (2% of frames)
  • 146 unique bottles spotted (1% of frames)
  • 95 unique dining tables spotted (2% of frames)
  • 104 unique potted plants spotted (2% of frames)
  • 95 unique benchs spotted (1% of frames)
  • 79 unique wine glasses spotted (1% of frames)
  • 98.7% of the movie takes place at night
  • 127 weapon appearances (1 per minute)
  • Contains 13 profanities (0.1 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 13 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • Peak dialogue speed: 201 words per minute
  • 33% of frames are close-ups
  • Only 1.4% of face detections are smiling
  • The film's emotional journey ends on a neutral note
  • Shot predominantly with warm tones

DIALOGUE

Words across the runtime

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

37% dialogue63% silence / score
9,864
total words
67
words / min
13 · 0.1%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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