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CAST · TAXI DRIVER

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

32,147

across full runtime

Named matches

9

actors identified

Close-up shots

18.5%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

8.2%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

78%

22%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Neutral 52%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Albert Brooks

51% non-neutral

Lead screen share

67%

9 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

8.2%

2,622 frames

Surprise

3.6%

1,143 frames

Neutral

52.2%

16,778 frames

Fear

11.7%

3,757 frames

Sad

11.6%

3,732 frames

Angry

9.9%

3,198 frames

Disgust

2.9%

917 frames

Screen time by actor

9 named · 58m tracked of 113.8m

01

Robert De Niro

as Travis Bickle · 5619 scenes

39.1min · 67% of cast

neutral

02

Cybill Shepherd

as Betsy · 1090 scenes

7.6min · 13% of cast

neutral

03

Leonard Harris

as Charles Palantine · 687 scenes

4.8min · 8% of cast

happy

04

Peter Boyle

as Wizard · 489 scenes

3.4min · 6% of cast

angry

05

Jodie Foster

as Iris · 223 scenes

1.6min · 3% of cast

neutral

06

Albert Brooks

as Tom · 193 scenes

1.3min · 2% of cast

neutral

07

Harvey Keitel

as Sport · 58 scenes

0.4min · 1% of cast

disgust

08

Diahnne Abbott

as Concession Girl · 30 scenes

0.2min · 0% of cast

neutral

09

Victor Argo

as Melio · 24 scenes

0.2min · 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
Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle	4,374	233.5	49.9%
Unidentified speakers	939	—	10.7%
Cybill Shepherd as Betsy	664	69.1	7.6%
Peter Boyle as Wizard	632	172.2	7.2%
Jodie Foster as Iris	537	269.5	6.1%
Albert Brooks as Tom	534	293.7	6.1%
Leonard Harris as Charles Palantine	494	171.7	5.6%
Harvey Keitel as Sport	332	284	3.8%
Victor Argo as Melio	183	122.8	2.1%
Diahnne Abbott as Concession Girl	76	282.9	0.9%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

RD

Robert De Niro

AS TRAVIS BICKLE

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

39m 04s

Scenes

5619

First seen

2:19

Last seen

110:43

Volatility

28 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~4m per bucket

00:0028m56m85m113.8m

11%

Happy

3%

Surprise

30%

Neutral

1%

Fear

29%

Sad

21%

Angry

6%

Disgust

CS

Cybill Shepherd

AS BETSY

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

7m 35s

Scenes

1090

First seen

10:35

Last seen

110:26

Volatility

34 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~4m per bucket

00:0028m56m85m113.8m

25%

Happy

0%

Surprise

37%

Neutral

0%

Fear

25%

Sad

1%

Angry

11%

Disgust

LH

Leonard Harris

AS CHARLES PALANTINE

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

4m 47s

Scenes

687

First seen

10:45

Last seen

97:22

Volatility

32 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~4m per bucket

00:0028m56m85m113.8m

47%

Happy

0%

Surprise

12%

Neutral

2%

Fear

1%

Sad

34%

Angry

4%

Disgust

PB

Peter Boyle

AS WIZARD

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

3m 24s

Scenes

489

First seen

2:28

Last seen

108:04

Volatility

32 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~4m per bucket

00:0028m56m85m113.8m

4%

Happy

0%

Surprise

35%

Neutral

1%

Fear

6%

Sad

49%

Angry

5%

Disgust

JF

Jodie Foster

AS IRIS

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

1m 33s

Scenes

223

First seen

31:04

Last seen

100:35

Volatility

26 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~4m per bucket

00:0028m56m85m113.8m

34%

Happy

0%

Surprise

54%

Neutral

1%

Fear

9%

Sad

0%

Angry

1%

Disgust

AB

Albert Brooks

AS TOM

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

1m 20s

Scenes

193

First seen

11:59

Last seen

95:40

Volatility

35 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~4m per bucket

00:0028m56m85m113.8m

16%

Happy

7%

Surprise

49%

Neutral

0%

Fear

2%

Sad

4%

Angry

23%

Disgust

HK

Harvey Keitel

AS SPORT

● Dominant: disgust

Screen time

0m 24s

Scenes

58

First seen

75:47

Last seen

97:33

Too few detections for emotion analysis

DA

Diahnne Abbott

AS CONCESSION GIRL

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 13s

Scenes

30

First seen

8:34

Last seen

9:33

Too few detections for emotion analysis

VA

Victor Argo

AS MELIO

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 10s

Scenes

24

First seen

69:09

Last seen

69:41

Too few detections for emotion analysis

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 16 clusterssums to 99.9% of all dialogue

Niro 39.0%

Shepherd 20.0%

Boyle 7.6%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 10 ensemble

0:0028:2756:5485:21113:48

runtime

Robert De Niro

2:35enter

Leonard Harris

4:14enter

Victor Argo

6:44enter

Cybill Shepherd

8:35enter

Diahnne Abbott

8:54enter

Peter Boyle

9:27enter

Albert Brooks

11:01enter

SPEAKER 05

30:23enter

Harvey Keitel

30:28enter

Jodie Foster

30:57enter

SPEAKER 16

31:27enter

SPEAKER 26

40:03enter

SPEAKER 06

40:12enter

SPEAKER 23

64:22enter

SPEAKER 29

73:26enter

SPEAKER 07

98:21enter

Robert De NiroSPEAKER 13

Rapid exchange

39.0%

of all dialogue · 4,374 words · 18:44 spoken

WPM233.5

Turns826

Avg turn1.5s

Longest17.9s

enters at 2:35profanity 22

Cybill ShepherdSPEAKER 28

Conversational

20.0%

of all dialogue · 664 words · 9:36 spoken

WPM69.1

Turns147

Avg turn1.4s

Longest7.2s

enters at 8:35profanity 2

Peter BoyleSPEAKER 14

Conversational

7.6%

of all dialogue · 632 words · 3:40 spoken

WPM172.2

Turns110

Avg turn1.5s

Longest19.3s

enters at 9:27profanity 6

Jodie FosterSPEAKER 03

Conversational

4.2%

of all dialogue · 537 words · 1:60 spoken

WPM269.5

Turns110

Avg turn1.1s

Longest3.8s

enters at 30:57profanity 0

Albert BrooksSPEAKER 22

Brief

3.8%

of all dialogue · 534 words · 1:49 spoken

WPM293.7

Turns94

Avg turn1.4s

Longest5.4s

enters at 11:01profanity 2

Leonard HarrisSPEAKER 20

Brief

6.0%

of all dialogue · 494 words · 2:53 spoken

WPM171.7

Turns83

Avg turn2.3s

Longest12.4s

enters at 4:14profanity 1

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 06 · unmatched

Brief

2.4%

of all dialogue · 463 words · 1:10 spoken

WPM394.8

Turns82

Avg turn1.0s

Longest3.7s

enters at 40:12profanity 5

Harvey KeitelSPEAKER 17

Brief

2.4%

of all dialogue · 332 words · 1:10 spoken

WPM284

Turns60

Avg turn1.5s

Longest7.9s

enters at 30:28profanity 12

Victor ArgoSPEAKER 04

Brief

3.1%

of all dialogue · 183 words · 1:29 spoken

WPM122.8

Turns47

Avg turn1.1s

Longest7.5s

enters at 6:44profanity 1

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 23 · unmatched

Brief

2.4%

of all dialogue · 181 words · 1:10 spoken

WPM154.6

Turns29

Avg turn2.4s

Longest5.7s

enters at 64:22profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 05 · unmatched

Brief

0.7%

of all dialogue · 101 words · 0:20 spoken

WPM303.3

Turns12

Avg turn2.0s

Longest11.5s

enters at 30:23profanity 3

Diahnne AbbottSPEAKER 00

Brief

0.6%

of all dialogue · 76 words · 0:16 spoken

WPM282.9

Turns31

Avg turn1.1s

Longest9.7s

enters at 8:54profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 29 · unmatched

Brief

3.0%

of all dialogue · 60 words · 1:27 spoken

WPM41.5

Turns14

Avg turn1.3s

Longest2.3s

enters at 73:26profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 07 · unmatched

Brief

0.5%

of all dialogue · 56 words · 0:14 spoken

WPM238.6

Turns18

Avg turn0.9s

Longest1.9s

enters at 98:21profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 16 · unmatched

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 49 words · 0:11 spoken

WPM265.8

Turns12

Avg turn0.9s

Longest3.6s

enters at 31:27profanity 3

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 26 · unmatched

Brief

3.8%

of all dialogue · 29 words · 1:49 spoken

WPM16

Turns23

Avg turn1.5s

Longest7.5s

enters at 40:03profanity 1

AGGREGATE — 9 unique characters · 32,147 faces detected · 9 named matches · 58m screen-time tracked