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The Big Lebowski (1998) movie poster

Film Profile · THE-BIG-LEBOWSKI

The Big Lebowski

1998Comedy / CrimeComedy1h 57m
Detections106,060
Night Frames39%
Dialogue WPM97
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-78% vs genre
11/100

Very Bright

Action Intensity-7% vs genre
58/100

Moderate

People Density-24% vs genre
56/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
70% indoor

Indoor · 70.0% indoors

Object Diversity
92/100

High

Pacing
0.9 cuts/min

Highly Variable · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS51ACTION58DIALOGUE51PEOPLE56VEHICLES9VISUAL70
The Big LebowskiComedy avg · 16 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 → 117m
02550751000m29m59m88m117m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

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

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates53%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates43%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates38%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
53:19
motion 136/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 688.6s at 83:12
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationvivid
Frames sampled5,621
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#4E331C
36.4%
#7A5332
23.2%
#977555
17.8%
#474E50
10.8%
#9C938B
8.1%
#CFC0AE
3.8%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Action scenes
#4F2F1B
#91745C
#664D37
#8F502C
#A9A09C
General scenes
#4D341E
#694D35
#8B6544
#A08163
#BDAEA0
Night scenes
#4F341D
#7C5B3F
#9C8A7E
#223857
#CFC6BA
Outdoor scenes
#433123
#65472D
#86694E
#A78F76
#BABBB6
Romantic scenes
#51361F
#9C7855
#7B5737
#9D9FA0
#38535C
Vibrant scenes
#744624
#936238
#BB844B
#2A5475
#4589B6

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Police car2%
Chair16%
Night vision goggles2%
Poster2%
+ 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.

JB
Jeff Bridges
The Dude
48.6m · angry
JG
John Goodman
Walter Sobchak
10.6m · angry
SB
Steve Buscemi
Donny
10.1m · angry
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — The Big Lebowski (1998)

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

  • The Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski outswears 14 out of 15 comedies, with 2.70 profanities per minute nearly five times the genre average.
  • 2,144 unique people spotted (86% of frames)
  • "man" is said 165 times — once every 0.7 minutes.
  • Jeff Bridges is on screen for 49 of 117 minutes — 41% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 3 min 31 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • Only 7.5% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • The 5 most intense moments all happen within 1 min 16 sec of each other.
  • At 125 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 2,740 unique words spoken out of 11,346 total — a vocabulary richness of 24.1%.
  • AI detected 92 unique object types across 106,060 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 648 unique chairs spotted (16% of frames)
  • 310 unique bottles spotted (8% of frames)
  • 395 unique cars spotted (8% of frames)
  • 263 unique cups spotted (8% of frames)
  • 203 unique ties spotted (7% of frames)
  • 101 unique dining tables spotted (4% of frames)
  • 103 unique handbags spotted (4% of frames)
  • 54 unique bowls spotted (4% of frames)
  • 85 unique cell phones spotted (3% of frames)
  • Features 118 dog appearances
  • 5,226 cars spotted (vehicle-heavy film)
  • Contains 316 profanities (2.7 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 4 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • Jeff Bridges dominates the screen — present in 41% of runtime
  • 14% of frames are close-ups
  • 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.

51% dialogue49% silence / score
11,346
total words
97
words / min
316 · 2.8%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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