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The Dark Knight (2008) movie poster

Film Profile · THE-DARK-KNIGHT

The Dark Knight

2008Action / Crime / ThrillerAction2h 32m
Detections120,442
Night Frames97%
Dialogue WPM69
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-36% vs genre
41.8/100

Bright

Action Intensity+9% vs genre
55/100

Moderate

People Density+17% vs genre
60/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
53% indoor

Balanced · 52.5% indoors

Object Diversity
81/100

High

Pacing
0.7 cuts/min

Highly Variable · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS82ACTION55DIALOGUE45PEOPLE60VEHICLES7VISUAL57
The Dark KnightAction 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 → 152m
02550751000m38m76m114m152m
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
●outdoor dominates37%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●night dominates36%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
20:32
motion 136/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 1145.5s at 83:59
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled7,298
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#504237
31.4%
#84664F
19.2%
#959488
17.8%
#D4D0B9
14.6%
#144352
10.5%
#337D8E
6.4%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Action scenes
#583726
#955A34
#5A6D66
#AE9785
#DFD4BD
Intimate scenes
#424239
#83816F
#446662
#ACAF99
#E3DBB8
Night scenes
#574032
#7D7061
#1C505E
#9CA197
#DBD6BD
Outdoor scenes
#423F3A
#7C624D
#909288
#D1CEB7
#146880
Suspense scenes
#344041
#656359
#8A9087
#E7D9B8
#BAB8A5
Vibrant scenes
#754328
#0E627E
#A15B31
#2A9DB9
#E19347

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Tie22%
Car5%
Chair7%
Police car1%
+ 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.

AE
Aaron Eckhart
Harvey Dent
15.0m · angry
GO
Gary Oldman
Gordon
13.0m · angry
MG
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rachel
7.9m · sad
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — The Dark Knight (2008)

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

  • The Dark Knight boasts a blistering 68.90 words per minute, outpacing 25 out of 27 Action films' average, including 95% of its peers.
  • 6,351 unique people spotted (82% of frames)
  • "harvey" is said 53 times — once every 2.9 minutes.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 8 min 8 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • Only 4.4% 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.
  • 2,597 unique words spoken out of 10,489 total — a vocabulary richness of 24.8%.
  • AI detected 81 unique object types across 120,442 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 1,294 unique ties spotted (22% of frames)
  • 550 unique chairs spotted (7% of frames)
  • 589 unique cars spotted (5% of frames)
  • 229 unique tvs spotted (3% of frames)
  • 140 unique wine glasses spotted (1% of frames)
  • 108 unique dining tables spotted (2% of frames)
  • 107 unique books spotted (1% of frames)
  • 125 unique cell phones spotted (2% of frames)
  • 123 unique cups spotted (1% of frames)
  • 96.7% of the movie takes place at night
  • Features 265 dog appearances
  • 4,069 cars spotted (vehicle-heavy film)
  • 117 weapon appearances (1 per minute)
  • Contains 11 profanities (0.1 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 8 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • 20% of frames are close-ups
  • Only 4.4% 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.

45% dialogue55% silence / score
10,489
total words
69
words / min
11 · 0.1%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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