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The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) movie poster

Film Profile · THE-SILENCE-OF-THE-LAMBS

The Silence Of The Lambs

1991Crime / Thriller / DramaCrime1h 59m
Detections76,823
Night Frames85%
Dialogue WPM62
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-58% vs genre
26.2/100

Bright

Action Intensity-7% vs genre
51/100

Moderate

People Density-15% vs genre
47/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
33% indoor

Outdoor · 33.2% indoors

Object Diversity
165/100

High

Pacing
0.8 cuts/min

Dynamic · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS66ACTION51DIALOGUE33PEOPLE47VEHICLES7VISUAL42
The Silence Of The LambsCrime avg · 7 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 → 119m
02550751000m30m59m89m119m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

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

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates39%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates40%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates42%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
1:02:35
motion 148/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 923s at 5:19
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled5,684
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#40352C
31.4%
#4C4E4C
21.6%
#726C68
18.6%
#66473B
16.3%
#9A9997
7.6%
#DDDFDD
4.5%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#4A3F31
#605D56
#7E7F7E
#ABB0AF
#DDE2E2
Intimate scenes
#483933
#695449
#7D7673
#A6A5A1
#D4D2CE
Night scenes
#42322B
#534743
#72625D
#958D89
#D8D6D3
Outdoor scenes
#4D423B
#655B57
#3F3025
#8A8785
#D8DAD9
Romantic scenes
#463C39
#5E5553
#797677
#A3A8B4
#E8ECEE
Vibrant scenes
#744631
#247832
#791617
#344E82
#4BC55A

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Police car1%
Armored vehicle2%
Tie6%
Wanted poster1%
+ 6 more · person in 85% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

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

JF
Jodie Foster
Clarice Starling
30.7m · neutral
AH
Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
10.9m · disgust
SG
Scott Glenn
Jack Crawford
3.0m · angry
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

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

  • Crime films typically use only 21% close-ups, but The Silence Of The Lambs eclipses them with a staggering 42% of tightly cropped shots.
  • 2,724 unique people spotted (85% of frames)
  • "sir" is said 31 times — once every 3.8 minutes.
  • Jodie Foster is on screen for 31 of 119 minutes — 26% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 8 min 14 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • Only 7.3% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • The 5 most intense moments all happen within 18 seconds of each other.
  • At 125 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 2,281 unique words spoken out of 7,323 total — a vocabulary richness of 31.1%.
  • AI detected 165 unique object types across 76,823 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 234 unique cars spotted (6% of frames)
  • 324 unique ties spotted (6% of frames)
  • 175 unique chairs spotted (3% of frames)
  • 55 unique bicycles spotted (2% of frames)
  • 78 unique books spotted (1% of frames)
  • Features 125 dog appearances
  • 3,635 cars spotted (vehicle-heavy film)
  • 370 weapon appearances (3 per minute)
  • Contains 13 profanities (0.1 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 8 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • 42% 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.

33% dialogue67% silence / score
7,323
total words
62
words / min
13 · 0.2%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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