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The Shining (1980) movie poster

Film Profile · THE-SHINING

The Shining

1980Horror / ThrillerHorror1h 60m
Detections103,014
Night Frames17%
Dialogue WPM37
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-100% vs genre
0/100

Very Bright

Action Intensity-88% vs genre
5.7/100

Moderate

People Density-97% vs genre
1.4/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
95% indoor

Indoor · 94.7% indoors

Object Diversity
87/100

High

Pacing
0.8 cuts/min

Highly Variable · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS35ACTION57DIALOGUE35PEOPLE42VEHICLES2VISUAL64
The ShiningHorror avg · 8 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 → 120m
02550751000m30m60m90m120m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

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

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates56%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates49%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates48%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
1:08:01
motion 148/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 974.5s at 100:02
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled5,737
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#532B21
22.1%
#675143
22.0%
#7E7470
21.7%
#354154
15.4%
#A19F9F
13.5%
#DDDDDC
5.3%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#3D3835
#585752
#837C70
#6B88AD
#BEC1C8
General scenes
#4F332A
#5F5452
#877369
#9C989B
#DADBDB
Indoor scenes
#482F24
#5C5A68
#6E4F3B
#968E8F
#D7D8D9
Night scenes
#4E2F21
#2F3D56
#6A5041
#827C7E
#D3CDC7
Outdoor scenes
#706053
#5A2E25
#8D8A8A
#374353
#CCCCCB
Vibrant scenes
#83171C
#71452E
#935D3F
#3A5B8B
#B87C50

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Chair21%
Bottle6%
Couch7%
Poster1%
+ 6 more · person in 86% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

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

JN
Jack Nicholson
Jack Torrance
36.4m · angry
SD
Shelley Duvall
Wendy Torrance
14.8m · sad
SC
Scatman Crothers
Hallorann
8.0m · angry
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — The Shining (1980)

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

  • Over 94% of "The Shining" unfolds indoors, outpacing the average of 70% for the Horror genre by a stunning 24%.
  • 1,157 unique people spotted (86% of frames)
  • "sir" is said 28 times — once every 4.3 minutes.
  • Jack Nicholson is on screen for 36 of 120 minutes — 30% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 19 min 36 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • Only 9.5% 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.
  • 1,414 unique words spoken out of 4,458 total — a vocabulary richness of 31.7%.
  • AI detected 87 unique object types across 103,014 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 935 unique chairs spotted (21% of frames)
  • 429 unique bottles spotted (6% of frames)
  • 160 unique cups spotted (6% of frames)
  • 151 unique ties spotted (9% of frames)
  • 184 unique books spotted (4% of frames)
  • 129 unique potted plants spotted (6% of frames)
  • 288 unique couchs spotted (7% of frames)
  • 40 unique sinks spotted (4% of frames)
  • 130 unique dining tables spotted (6% of frames)
  • 501 weapon appearances (4 per minute)
  • Contains 15 profanities (0.1 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 20 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • 18% of frames are close-ups
  • 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.

35% dialogue65% silence / score
4,458
total words
37
words / min
15 · 0.3%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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