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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) movie poster

Film Profile · THE-SHAWSHANK-REDEMPTION

The Shawshank Redemption

1994Drama / CrimeDrama2h 22m
Detections136,770
Night Frames75%
Dialogue WPM78
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-78% vs genre
12.9/100

Very Bright

Action Intensity+7% vs genre
59/100

Moderate

People Density+29% vs genre
82/100

Social

Indoor / Outdoor
76% indoor

Indoor · 75.7% indoors

Object Diversity
98/100

High

Pacing
0.7 cuts/min

Highly Variable · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

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

DARKNESS53ACTION59DIALOGUE41PEOPLE82VEHICLES2VISUAL62
The Shawshank RedemptionDrama 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 → 142m
02550751000m36m71m107m142m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

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

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates44%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates47%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates46%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

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

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
1:25:00
motion 104/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 665.2s at 95:03
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

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

Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled6,831
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#413537
31.8%
#5E4C4A
22.4%
#656171
18.7%
#8A8394
13.3%
#B2AFC1
7.8%
#E6E6EB
6.0%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Action scenes
#45393C
#5F5761
#817A88
#A9A6B6
#E1E5F0
Empty scenes
#4E413E
#8E7461
#445996
#BEB7BE
#7591D7
Night scenes
#433334
#594C52
#766975
#9990A5
#D9D7E3
Outdoor scenes
#443637
#5C5359
#7A727F
#9F9CB1
#DDDDE3
Romantic scenes
#433638
#585257
#74707D
#A69FAF
#E1E2E9
Vibrant scenes
#794632
#4669B0
#2D437C
#638BE3
#D6A126

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

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

Tie17%
Poster1%
Book3%
Chair5%
+ 6 more · person in 90% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

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

TR
Tim Robbins
Andy Dufresne
32.3m · angry
MF
Morgan Freeman
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
31.2m · sad
BG
Bob Gunton
Warden Norton
9.8m · angry
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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

  • Over 82 people consistently appear on screen throughout, leaving The Shawshank Redemption outscoring 82% of all Drama films in cast density.
  • 5,567 unique people spotted (90% of frames)
  • "man" is said 51 times — once every 2.8 minutes.
  • Tim Robbins is on screen for 32 of 142 minutes — 23% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 4 min 52 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • 127 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 67 seconds.
  • Only 3.1% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • At 117 BPM, the score sets a slow, meditative pace throughout.
  • 2,853 unique words spoken out of 11,096 total — a vocabulary richness of 25.7%.
  • AI detected 98 unique object types across 136,770 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 682 unique ties spotted (17% of frames)
  • 289 unique chairs spotted (5% of frames)
  • 298 unique books spotted (3% of frames)
  • 177 unique cups spotted (3% of frames)
  • 118 unique cars spotted (1% of frames)
  • 102 unique dining tables spotted (2% of frames)
  • Posters appear in 1% of frames
  • 73 unique bottles spotted (0% of frames)
  • 39 unique benchs spotted (1% of frames)
  • Features 3,774 high-action sequences (9% of the film)
  • 166 weapon appearances (1 per minute)
  • Contains 127 profanities (0.9 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 5 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • Peak dialogue speed: 204 words per minute
  • 25% of frames are close-ups
  • Only 3.1% of face detections are smiling
  • 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.

41% dialogue59% silence / score
11,096
total words
78
words / min
127 · 1.1%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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