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Faces & feelings

Per-character screen time, dialogue and emotion breakdown — derived from face recognition + expression classifier across every frame.

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Faces detected

22,830

across full runtime

Named matches

14

actors identified

Close-up shots

33.1%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

1.4%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

77%

23%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Neutral 31%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Dileep Rao

84% non-neutral

Lead screen share

37%

14 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

1.4%

312 frames

Surprise

4.6%

1,057 frames

Neutral

31.5%

7,186 frames

Fear

12.2%

2,776 frames

Sad

22.5%

5,129 frames

Angry

24.9%

5,683 frames

Disgust

3.0%

687 frames

Screen time by actor

14 named · 105m tracked of 148.1m

01

Leonardo DiCaprio

as Dom Cobb · 5648 scenes

39.3min · 37% of cast

angry

02

Elliot Page

as Ariadne · 2031 scenes

14.1min · 13% of cast

sad

03

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

as Arthur · 1611 scenes

11.2min · 11% of cast

neutral

04

Cillian Murphy

as Robert Fischer, Jr. · 1527 scenes

10.6min · 10% of cast

neutral

05

Tom Hardy

as Eames · 1063 scenes

7.4min · 7% of cast

neutral

06

Ken Watanabe

as Saito · 999 scenes

6.9min · 7% of cast

angry

07

Marion Cotillard

as Mal Cobb · 895 scenes

6.2min · 6% of cast

sad

08

Dileep Rao

as Yusuf · 425 scenes

3.0min · 3% of cast

angry

09

Tom Berenger

as Peter Browning · 382 scenes

2.7min · 3% of cast

sad

10

Michael Caine

as Stephen Miles · 216 scenes

1.5min · 1% of cast

sad

11

Lukas Haas

as Nash · 127 scenes

0.9min · 1% of cast

neutral

12

Pete Postlethwaite

as Maurice Fischer · 98 scenes

0.7min · 1% of cast

sad

13

Talulah Riley

as Blonde · 45 scenes

0.3min · 0% of cast

neutral

14

Tohoru Masamune

as Japanese Security Guard · 6 scenes

0.0min · 0% of cast

sad

Dialogue by character

words spoken · WPM · share of total dialogue

NOTE — speaker matching uses face-detection overlap; actors not recognized by the AI appear as unidentified.

Actor / Character	Words spoken	WPM	% of dialogue
Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb	3,720	174.2	37.7%
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur	1,278	275.2	13.0%
Elliot Page as Ariadne	1,277	166.5	13.0%
Tom Hardy as Eames	972	145.9	9.9%
Cillian Murphy as Robert Fischer, Jr.	652	195.3	6.6%
Marion Cotillard as Mal Cobb	517	195.3	5.2%
Ken Watanabe as Saito	460	120.5	4.7%
Tom Berenger as Peter Browning	361	215.6	3.7%
Dileep Rao as Yusuf	355	245	3.6%
Michael Caine as Stephen Miles	107	209.5	1.1%
Lukas Haas as Nash	74	254	0.8%
Unidentified speakers	45	—	0.5%
Pete Postlethwaite as Maurice Fischer	39	199.7	0.4%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

DC

Leonardo DiCaprio

AS DOM COBB

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

39m 16s

Scenes

5648

First seen

1:01

Last seen

140:23

Volatility

24 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

1%

Happy

4%

Surprise

15%

Neutral

5%

Fear

12%

Sad

62%

Angry

2%

Disgust

A

Elliot Page

AS ARIADNE

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

14m 07s

Scenes

2031

First seen

24:45

Last seen

139:03

Volatility

22 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

1%

Happy

1%

Surprise

18%

Neutral

4%

Fear

75%

Sad

1%

Angry

1%

Disgust

A

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

AS ARTHUR

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

11m 12s

Scenes

1611

First seen

2:56

Last seen

139:13

Volatility

37 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

1%

Happy

7%

Surprise

32%

Neutral

4%

Fear

24%

Sad

27%

Angry

5%

Disgust

RF

Cillian Murphy

AS ROBERT FISCHER, JR.

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

10m 37s

Scenes

1527

First seen

44:37

Last seen

139:23

Volatility

30 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

1%

Happy

6%

Surprise

46%

Neutral

6%

Fear

31%

Sad

7%

Angry

2%

Disgust

E

Tom Hardy

AS EAMES

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

7m 23s

Scenes

1063

First seen

35:07

Last seen

139:18

Volatility

41 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

5%

Happy

5%

Surprise

37%

Neutral

1%

Fear

7%

Sad

33%

Angry

12%

Disgust

S

Ken Watanabe

AS SAITO

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

6m 56s

Scenes

999

First seen

2:49

Last seen

139:19

Volatility

32 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

2%

Happy

4%

Surprise

9%

Neutral

11%

Fear

21%

Sad

50%

Angry

3%

Disgust

MC

Marion Cotillard

AS MAL COBB

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

6m 13s

Scenes

895

First seen

5:38

Last seen

133:49

Volatility

22 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

1%

Happy

0%

Surprise

18%

Neutral

9%

Fear

63%

Sad

5%

Angry

5%

Disgust

Y

Dileep Rao

AS YUSUF

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

2m 57s

Scenes

425

First seen

41:28

Last seen

139:11

Volatility

43 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

5%

Happy

2%

Surprise

16%

Neutral

3%

Fear

22%

Sad

36%

Angry

16%

Disgust

PB

Tom Berenger

AS PETER BROWNING

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

2m 40s

Scenes

382

First seen

45:31

Last seen

134:50

Volatility

26 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

1%

Happy

1%

Surprise

11%

Neutral

8%

Fear

66%

Sad

10%

Angry

4%

Disgust

SM

Michael Caine

AS STEPHEN MILES

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

1m 30s

Scenes

216

First seen

22:25

Last seen

140:29

Volatility

26 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

2%

Happy

5%

Surprise

11%

Neutral

5%

Fear

60%

Sad

7%

Angry

15%

Disgust

N

Lukas Haas

AS NASH

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 53s

Scenes

127

First seen

4:47

Last seen

18:59

Volatility

30 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

2%

Happy

3%

Surprise

35%

Neutral

8%

Fear

24%

Sad

28%

Angry

2%

Disgust

MF

Pete Postlethwaite

AS MAURICE FISCHER

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 41s

Scenes

98

First seen

45:09

Last seen

131:40

Volatility

13 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.1m

13%

Happy

7%

Surprise

3%

Neutral

5%

Fear

68%

Sad

24%

Angry

0%

Disgust

B

Talulah Riley

AS BLONDE

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 19s

Scenes

45

First seen

85:28

Last seen

86:51

Too few detections for emotion analysis

JS

Tohoru Masamune

AS JAPANESE SECURITY GUARD

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 02s

Scenes

6

First seen

1:21

Last seen

1:25

Too few detections for emotion analysis

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 13 clusterssums to 100.0% of all dialogue

DiCaprio 39.3%

Gordon-Levitt 8.5%

Page 14.1%

Hardy 12.2%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 7 ensemble

0:0037:0274:03111:05148:06

runtime

Leonardo DiCaprio

2:47enter

Ken Watanabe

3:14enter

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

3:16enter

Marion Cotillard

5:41enter

Lukas Haas

14:46enter

Cillian Murphy

19:22enter

Michael Caine

22:28enter

Elliot Page

24:49enter

Dileep Rao

25:22enter

SPEAKER 13

31:25enter

Tom Hardy

35:16enter

Tom Berenger

45:46enter

Pete Postlethwaite

46:36enter

Leonardo DiCaprioSPEAKER 11

Rapid exchange

39.3%

of all dialogue · 3,720 words · 21:22 spoken

WPM174.2

Turns662

Avg turn1.8s

Longest16.8s

enters at 2:47profanity 3

Joseph Gordon-LevittSPEAKER 07

Rapid exchange

8.5%

of all dialogue · 1,278 words · 4:39 spoken

WPM275.2

Turns178

Avg turn1.9s

Longest10.8s

enters at 3:16profanity 1

Elliot PageSPEAKER 24

Rapid exchange

14.1%

of all dialogue · 1,277 words · 7:40 spoken

WPM166.5

Turns305

Avg turn1.3s

Longest12.1s

enters at 24:49profanity 2

Tom HardySPEAKER 20

Rapid exchange

12.2%

of all dialogue · 972 words · 6:40 spoken

WPM145.9

Turns167

Avg turn1.5s

Longest14.8s

enters at 35:16profanity 3

Cillian MurphySPEAKER 10

Rapid exchange

6.1%

of all dialogue · 652 words · 3:20 spoken

WPM195.3

Turns198

Avg turn1.0s

Longest6.5s

enters at 19:22profanity 1

Marion CotillardSPEAKER 29

Conversational

4.9%

of all dialogue · 517 words · 2:39 spoken

WPM195.3

Turns128

Avg turn1.5s

Longest14.4s

enters at 5:41profanity 2

Ken WatanabeSPEAKER 19

Rapid exchange

7.0%

of all dialogue · 460 words · 3:49 spoken

WPM120.5

Turns158

Avg turn1.1s

Longest4.7s

enters at 3:14profanity 0

Tom BerengerSPEAKER 30

Brief

3.1%

of all dialogue · 361 words · 1:41 spoken

WPM215.6

Turns62

Avg turn1.7s

Longest11.6s

enters at 45:46profanity 0

Dileep RaoSPEAKER 02

Brief

2.7%

of all dialogue · 355 words · 1:27 spoken

WPM245

Turns67

Avg turn1.5s

Longest13.2s

enters at 25:22profanity 0

Michael CaineSPEAKER 25

Brief

0.9%

of all dialogue · 107 words · 0:31 spoken

WPM209.5

Turns25

Avg turn1.3s

Longest6.6s

enters at 22:28profanity 0

Lukas HaasSPEAKER 05

Brief

0.5%

of all dialogue · 74 words · 0:18 spoken

WPM254

Turns25

Avg turn1.4s

Longest8.2s

enters at 14:46profanity 1

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 13 · unmatched

Brief

0.3%

of all dialogue · 45 words · 0:09 spoken

WPM287.2

Turns11

Avg turn1.5s

Longest3.9s

enters at 31:25profanity 0

Pete PostlethwaiteSPEAKER 23

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 39 words · 0:12 spoken

WPM199.7

Turns43

Avg turn0.6s

Longest2.3s

enters at 46:36profanity 0

AGGREGATE — 14 unique characters · 22,830 faces detected · 14 named matches · 105m screen-time tracked