The Dark Knight (2008) — QuantCinema

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CAST · THE DARK KNIGHT

Faces & feelings

Per-character screen time, dialogue and emotion breakdown — derived from face recognition + expression classifier across every frame.

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Faces detected

34,929

across full runtime

Named matches

15

actors identified

Close-up shots

19.8%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

4.4%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

78%

22%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Neutral 44%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Heath Ledger

74% non-neutral

Lead screen share

23%

15 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

4.4%

1,550 frames

Surprise

4.3%

1,504 frames

Neutral

44.4%

15,507 frames

Fear

11.2%

3,911 frames

Sad

14.3%

4,992 frames

Angry

17.2%

6,005 frames

Disgust

4.2%

1,460 frames

Screen time by actor

15 named · 66m tracked of 152.2m

01

Aaron Eckhart

as Harvey Dent · 2155 scenes

15.0min · 23% of cast

angry

02

Gary Oldman

as Gordon · 1865 scenes

13.0min · 20% of cast

angry

03

Maggie Gyllenhaal

as Rachel · 1140 scenes

7.9min · 12% of cast

sad

04

Christian Bale

as Bruce Wayne · 1088 scenes

7.6min · 12% of cast

angry

05

Morgan Freeman

as Lucius Fox · 704 scenes

4.9min · 7% of cast

sad

06

Michael Caine

as Alfred · 673 scenes

4.7min · 7% of cast

sad

07

Eric Roberts

as Maroni · 372 scenes

2.6min · 4% of cast

sad

08

Chin Han

as Lau · 355 scenes

2.5min · 4% of cast

neutral

09

Monique Gabriela Curnen

as Ramirez · 270 scenes

1.9min · 3% of cast

sad

10

Nestor Carbonell

as Mayor · 247 scenes

1.7min · 3% of cast

neutral

11

Ritchie Coster

as Chechen · 242 scenes

1.7min · 3% of cast

neutral

12

Heath Ledger

as Joker · 169 scenes

1.2min · 2% of cast

sad

13

Ron Dean

as Wuertz · 89 scenes

0.6min · 1% of cast

angry

14

Anthony Michael Hall

as Engel · 54 scenes

0.4min · 1% of cast

angry

15

Cillian Murphy

as Scarecrow · 22 scenes

0.1min · 0% of cast

sad

Dialogue by character

words spoken · WPM · share of total dialogue

NOTE — speaker matching uses face-detection overlap; actors not recognized by the AI appear as unidentified.

Actor / Character	Words spoken	WPM	% of dialogue
Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent	2,520	247.9	24.0%
Heath Ledger as Joker	1,880	103.9	17.9%
Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox	954	222.5	9.1%
Gary Oldman as Gordon	807	75.1	7.7%
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel	707	129.8	6.7%
Michael Caine as Alfred	693	160.3	6.6%
Monique Gabriela Curnen as Ramirez	565	209.4	5.4%
Nestor Carbonell as Mayor	436	226.4	4.2%
Unidentified speakers	384	—	3.7%
Ron Dean as Wuertz	374	161.6	3.6%
Eric Roberts as Maroni	360	167.3	3.4%
Chin Han as Lau	300	215.4	2.9%
Ritchie Coster as Chechen	203	202.1	1.9%
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow	161	176.6	1.5%
Anthony Michael Hall as Engel	88	177.8	0.8%
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne	74	219.4	0.7%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

HD

Aaron Eckhart

AS HARVEY DENT

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

14m 59s

Scenes

2155

First seen

13:11

Last seen

142:37

Volatility

36 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

5%

Happy

3%

Surprise

19%

Neutral

8%

Fear

17%

Sad

35%

Angry

12%

Disgust

G

Gary Oldman

AS GORDON

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

12m 58s

Scenes

1865

First seen

6:56

Last seen

144:21

Volatility

39 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

2%

Happy

8%

Surprise

27%

Neutral

11%

Fear

8%

Sad

40%

Angry

3%

Disgust

R

Maggie Gyllenhaal

AS RACHEL

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

7m 55s

Scenes

1140

First seen

13:18

Last seen

99:44

Volatility

30 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

21%

Happy

2%

Surprise

21%

Neutral

17%

Fear

30%

Sad

2%

Angry

8%

Disgust

BW

Christian Bale

AS BRUCE WAYNE

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

7m 34s

Scenes

1088

First seen

12:29

Last seen

112:56

Volatility

33 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

3%

Happy

4%

Surprise

23%

Neutral

4%

Fear

10%

Sad

37%

Angry

19%

Disgust

LF

Morgan Freeman

AS LUCIUS FOX

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

4m 53s

Scenes

704

First seen

18:04

Last seen

143:22

Volatility

27 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

6%

Happy

11%

Surprise

12%

Neutral

5%

Fear

61%

Sad

3%

Angry

3%

Disgust

A

Michael Caine

AS ALFRED

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

4m 41s

Scenes

673

First seen

11:42

Last seen

142:54

Volatility

38 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

3%

Happy

14%

Surprise

21%

Neutral

2%

Fear

45%

Sad

5%

Angry

10%

Disgust

M

Eric Roberts

AS MARONI

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

2m 35s

Scenes

372

First seen

13:56

Last seen

119:05

Volatility

36 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

26%

Happy

1%

Surprise

18%

Neutral

5%

Fear

34%

Sad

9%

Angry

7%

Disgust

L

Chin Han

AS LAU

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

2m 28s

Scenes

355

First seen

17:59

Last seen

96:23

Volatility

30 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

4%

Happy

21%

Surprise

31%

Neutral

2%

Fear

17%

Sad

11%

Angry

14%

Disgust

R

Monique Gabriela Curnen

AS RAMIREZ

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

1m 53s

Scenes

270

First seen

6:46

Last seen

123:36

Volatility

37 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

6%

Happy

0%

Surprise

24%

Neutral

20%

Fear

30%

Sad

16%

Angry

3%

Disgust

M

Nestor Carbonell

AS MAYOR

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

1m 43s

Scenes

247

First seen

6:43

Last seen

117:45

Volatility

39 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

22%

Happy

8%

Surprise

30%

Neutral

3%

Fear

2%

Sad

23%

Angry

11%

Disgust

C

Ritchie Coster

AS CHECHEN

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

1m 41s

Scenes

242

First seen

7:31

Last seen

103:57

Volatility

39 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

6%

Happy

19%

Surprise

29%

Neutral

1%

Fear

23%

Sad

18%

Angry

4%

Disgust

J

Heath Ledger

AS JOKER

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

1m 10s

Scenes

169

First seen

23:54

Last seen

134:22

Volatility

50 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

5%

Happy

1%

Surprise

26%

Neutral

7%

Fear

33%

Sad

23%

Angry

7%

Disgust

W

Ron Dean

AS WUERTZ

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

0m 37s

Scenes

89

First seen

6:48

Last seen

115:41

Volatility

46 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0038m76m114m152.2m

2%

Happy

6%

Surprise

20%

Neutral

8%

Fear

27%

Sad

35%

Angry

2%

Disgust

E

Anthony Michael Hall

AS ENGEL

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

0m 23s

Scenes

54

First seen

6:42

Last seen

126:22

Too few detections for emotion analysis

S

Cillian Murphy

AS SCARECROW

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 09s

Scenes

22

First seen

10:17

Last seen

10:34

Too few detections for emotion analysis

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 24 clusterssums to 99.8% of all dialogue

Eckhart 14.9%

Ledger 26.6%

Oldman 15.8%

Gyllenhaal 8.0%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 18 ensemble

0:0038:0376:06114:09152:12

runtime

SPEAKER 32

1:47enter

Ron Dean

1:52enter

SPEAKER 06

1:58enter

SPEAKER 44

3:05enter

Gary Oldman

4:20enter

Heath Ledger

4:44enter

SPEAKER 05

4:58enter

Eric Roberts

5:26enter

SPEAKER 35

6:27enter

Aaron Eckhart

6:36enter

Nestor Carbonell

6:42enter

Monique Gabriela Curnen

6:46enter

Ritchie Coster

7:46enter

Cillian Murphy

7:47enter

Morgan Freeman

8:30enter

Michael Caine

11:35enter

Maggie Gyllenhaal

14:04enter

Chin Han

17:54enter

Christian Bale

20:02enter

Anthony Michael Hall

42:28enter

SPEAKER 29

42:32enter

SPEAKER 50

89:45enter

SPEAKER 40

122:28enter

SPEAKER 23

123:36enter

Aaron EckhartSPEAKER 17

Rapid exchange

14.9%

of all dialogue · 2,520 words · 10:10 spoken

WPM247.9

Turns511

Avg turn1.4s

Longest11.7s

enters at 6:36profanity 1

Heath LedgerSPEAKER 22

Rapid exchange

26.6%

of all dialogue · 1,880 words · 18:06 spoken

WPM103.9

Turns457

Avg turn1.7s

Longest14.7s

enters at 4:44profanity 1

Morgan FreemanSPEAKER 30

Rapid exchange

6.3%

of all dialogue · 954 words · 4:17 spoken

WPM222.5

Turns195

Avg turn1.5s

Longest9.7s

enters at 8:30profanity 0

Gary OldmanSPEAKER 34

Rapid exchange

15.8%

of all dialogue · 807 words · 10:45 spoken

WPM75.1

Turns234

Avg turn1.3s

Longest12.6s

enters at 4:20profanity 1

Maggie GyllenhaalSPEAKER 11

Conversational

8.0%

of all dialogue · 707 words · 5:27 spoken

WPM129.8

Turns144

Avg turn1.6s

Longest5.9s

enters at 14:04profanity 0

Michael CaineSPEAKER 18

Conversational

6.4%

of all dialogue · 693 words · 4:19 spoken

WPM160.3

Turns123

Avg turn1.7s

Longest9.7s

enters at 11:35profanity 3

Monique Gabriela CurnenSPEAKER 43

Brief

4.0%

of all dialogue · 565 words · 2:42 spoken

WPM209.4

Turns95

Avg turn1.9s

Longest14.6s

enters at 6:46profanity 2

Nestor CarbonellSPEAKER 10

Conversational

2.8%

of all dialogue · 436 words · 1:56 spoken

WPM226.4

Turns100

Avg turn1.4s

Longest9.4s

enters at 6:42profanity 1

Ron DeanSPEAKER 31

Brief

3.4%

of all dialogue · 374 words · 2:19 spoken

WPM161.6

Turns92

Avg turn1.4s

Longest8.7s

enters at 1:52profanity 2

Eric RobertsSPEAKER 15

Rapid exchange

3.2%

of all dialogue · 360 words · 2:09 spoken

WPM167.3

Turns185

Avg turn1.0s

Longest5.9s

enters at 5:26profanity 0

Chin HanSPEAKER 07

Brief

2.0%

of all dialogue · 300 words · 1:24 spoken

WPM215.4

Turns64

Avg turn1.5s

Longest7.4s

enters at 17:54profanity 0

Ritchie CosterSPEAKER 42

Brief

1.5%

of all dialogue · 203 words · 1:00 spoken

WPM202.1

Turns64

Avg turn1.1s

Longest5.5s

enters at 7:46profanity 0

Cillian MurphySPEAKER 26

Brief

1.3%

of all dialogue · 161 words · 0:55 spoken

WPM176.6

Turns43

Avg turn1.5s

Longest15.1s

enters at 7:47profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 32 · unmatched

Brief

0.6%

of all dialogue · 112 words · 0:26 spoken

WPM263.5

Turns13

Avg turn2.7s

Longest7.2s

enters at 1:47profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 05 · unmatched

Brief

0.6%

of all dialogue · 96 words · 0:25 spoken

WPM234

Turns22

Avg turn1.2s

Longest4.1s

enters at 4:58profanity 0

Anthony Michael HallSPEAKER 36

Brief

0.7%

of all dialogue · 88 words · 0:30 spoken

WPM177.8

Turns8

Avg turn2.7s

Longest6.8s

enters at 42:28profanity 0

Christian BaleSPEAKER 45

Brief

0.5%

of all dialogue · 74 words · 0:20 spoken

WPM219.4

Turns23

Avg turn1.4s

Longest5.5s

enters at 20:02profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 06 · unmatched

Brief

0.2%

of all dialogue · 48 words · 0:08 spoken

WPM358.2

Turns10

Avg turn1.6s

Longest5.4s

enters at 1:58profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 35 · unmatched

Long-form

0.2%

of all dialogue · 45 words · 0:08 spoken

WPM324.5

Turns1

Avg turn9.5s

Longest9.5s

enters at 6:27profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 50 · unmatched

Brief

0.2%

of all dialogue · 37 words · 0:10 spoken

WPM217.6

Turns8

Avg turn1.4s

Longest2.4s

enters at 89:45profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 23 · unmatched

Brief

0.2%

of all dialogue · 22 words · 0:09 spoken

WPM148.5

Turns4

Avg turn1.7s

Longest3.2s

enters at 123:36profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 40 · unmatched

Brief

0.1%

of all dialogue · 13 words · 0:03 spoken

WPM253.2

Turns11

Avg turn1.1s

Longest2.1s

enters at 122:28profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 44 · unmatched

Brief

0.3%

of all dialogue · 9 words · 0:13 spoken

WPM41.1

Turns34

Avg turn0.8s

Longest2.6s

enters at 3:05profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 29 · unmatched

Brief

0.0%

of all dialogue · 2 words · 0:01 spoken

WPM193.5

Turns12

Avg turn0.7s

Longest3.2s

enters at 42:32profanity 0

AGGREGATE — 15 unique characters · 34,929 faces detected · 15 named matches · 66m screen-time tracked