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Film Profile · PULP-FICTION

Pulp Fiction

1994Thriller / Crime / ComedyThriller2h 35m
Detections167,742
Night Frames77%
Dialogue WPM98
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-69% vs genre
16.3/100

Very Bright

Action Intensity+15% vs genre
63/100

High

People Density+15% vs genre
58/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
86% indoor

Indoor · 85.9% indoors

Object Diversity
79/100

High

Pacing
0.6 cuts/min

Highly Variable · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS56ACTION63DIALOGUE49PEOPLE58VEHICLES7VISUAL75
Pulp FictionThriller avg · 4 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 → 155m
02550751000m39m77m116m155m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

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

ACT 1 · SETUP
●night dominates40%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates41%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates40%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
2:14:07
motion 148/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 1540.5s at 95:18
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled7,410
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#4E321E
29.4%
#5B524C
21.9%
#857A72
18.6%
#B1A295
12.6%
#80593C
11.7%
#2F384F
5.7%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Fight scenes
#725846
#4C413B
#8A796A
#502A17
#AE9E8F
General scenes
#5F4F43
#A89D8D
#493427
#7C756B
#9D6F51
Indoor scenes
#504035
#785842
#52260F
#8C7B6C
#B39F8C
Night scenes
#574437
#4C2912
#7A675D
#A19896
#2B3759
Outdoor scenes
#4F301A
#725C4C
#484243
#8A7E76
#B4A79E
Vibrant scenes
#744829
#9E6743
#7E1805
#25458A
#B07508

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Chair22%
Cup11%
Tie12%
Car7%
+ 6 more · person in 90% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

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

JT
John Travolta
Vincent Vega
32.9m · angry
BW
Bruce Willis
Butch Coolidge
20.3m · angry
SL
Samuel L. Jackson
Jules Winnfield
15.3m · angry
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Pulp Fiction (1994)

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

  • Pulp Fiction packs more action than 3 out of 3 Thriller films, scoring a significant 63 out of 100 compared to the genre average of 52.
  • 2,807 unique people spotted (90% of frames)
  • "fucking" is said 118 times — once every 1.3 minutes.
  • John Travolta is on screen for 33 of 155 minutes — 21% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 5 min 18 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • 384 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 24 seconds.
  • Only 4.5% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • The 5 most intense moments all happen within 4 min 4 sec of each other.
  • At 104 BPM, the score sets a slow, meditative pace throughout.
  • 3,066 unique words spoken out of 15,129 total — a vocabulary richness of 20.3%.
  • AI detected 79 unique object types across 167,742 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 1,608 unique chairs spotted (22% of frames)
  • 597 unique cups spotted (11% of frames)
  • 523 unique ties spotted (12% of frames)
  • 260 unique potted plants spotted (9% of frames)
  • 294 unique couchs spotted (9% of frames)
  • 340 unique cars spotted (7% of frames)
  • 245 unique bottles spotted (6% of frames)
  • 197 unique dining tables spotted (8% of frames)
  • 124 unique bowls spotted (3% of frames)
  • Features 4,798 high-action sequences (11% of the film)
  • Features 270 dog appearances
  • 4,858 cars spotted (vehicle-heavy film)
  • 235 weapon appearances (2 per minute)
  • Contains 384 profanities (2.5 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 5 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • Peak dialogue speed: 210 words per minute
  • 18% of frames are close-ups
  • Only 4.5% 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.

49% dialogue51% silence / score
15,129
total words
98
words / min
384 · 2.5%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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