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Film Profile · WHIPLASH

Whiplash

2014Drama / Music / ThrillerDrama1h 47m
Detections79,372
Night Frames92%
Dialogue WPM53
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-39% vs genre
35.2/100

Bright

Action Intensity-4% vs genre
53/100

Moderate

People Density-11% vs genre
57/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
90% indoor

Indoor · 89.5% indoors

Object Diversity
127/100

High

Pacing
0.9 cuts/min

Dynamic · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS75ACTION53DIALOGUE32PEOPLE57VEHICLES1VISUAL63
WhiplashDrama avg · 26 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 → 107m
02550751000m27m53m80m107m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

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

ACT 1 · SETUP
●night dominates36%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates38%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates37%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
34:24
motion 80/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 556.2s at 76:39
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationvivid
Frames sampled5,120
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#502D07
35.0%
#805010
21.9%
#334F46
13.9%
#D3CEAA
10.0%
#819070
9.7%
#B98B33
9.6%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#885B18
#4D3712
#B28C40
#546C57
#C3C09A
Fight scenes
#533C0E
#43643E
#A19542
#CECEA3
#769F7D
Intimate scenes
#DDD5B6
#56360A
#A2792F
#4B593B
#C4BA87
Night scenes
#512D08
#875310
#2C4F51
#A68F4E
#D2C99F
Outdoor scenes
#543008
#915D14
#39564B
#A3975E
#D1CDAA
Vibrant scenes
#774109
#9B6B1B
#CA9E43
#267B6A
#1A167A

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Wanted poster2%
Chair8%
Poster1%
Tie4%
+ 6 more · person in 87% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

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

MT
Miles Teller
Andrew
40.7m · neutral
JS
J.K. Simmons
Fletcher
23.7m · angry
NL
Nate Lang
Carl
5.4m · angry
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Whiplash (2014)

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

  • In the drama genre, Whiplash has a performance that outshines 24 out of 25 other films, boasting a 48% lead over the genre average of 34%.
  • 3,209 unique people spotted (87% of frames)
  • "fucking" is said 39 times — once every 2.7 minutes.
  • Miles Teller is on screen for 41 of 107 minutes — 38% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 18 min 2 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • 79 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 81 seconds.
  • Only 4.8% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • At 144 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 1,535 unique words spoken out of 5,607 total — a vocabulary richness of 27.4%.
  • AI detected 127 unique object types across 79,372 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 385 unique chairs spotted (8% of frames)
  • 257 unique ties spotted (4% of frames)
  • 104 unique cups spotted (3% of frames)
  • 125 unique bottles spotted (3% of frames)
  • 46 unique clocks spotted (2% of frames)
  • 74 unique wine glasses spotted (2% of frames)
  • 92.2% of the movie takes place at night
  • 119 weapon appearances (1 per minute)
  • Contains 79 profanities (0.7 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 18 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • Peak dialogue speed: 212 words per minute
  • 25% of frames are close-ups
  • Only 4.8% of face detections are smiling
  • The film's emotional journey ends on a neutral note
  • Shot predominantly with warm tones
  • High color saturation — vivid visual style

DIALOGUE

Words across the runtime

Volume and pace at a glance. Top vocabulary and per-act WPM in Deep Dive.

32% dialogue68% silence / score
5,607
total words
53
words / min
79 · 1.4%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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