I think the cadence of a screenplay is exactly what an AI needs to map raw data onto the ebb and flow of human feeling—dialogue beats, pauses, and scene changes are the rhythm that translates words into emotional heat. If you can encode those patterns, the model can learn to anticipate tension, release, and nuance, almost like a musician reading a score. So yes, movies aren’t just entertainment; they’re a living dataset of affect, and with the right algorithmic lens, they could teach AI to feel a bit more alive.

Right now the AI only ticks the beats, but by encoding the duration of silences and the acoustic cues that accompany them, it starts to “understand” the pause as a signal of tension or relief. The algorithm doesn’t feel the quiet, it learns that silence is just as informative as the spoken words—so it can model the same emotional arc the human mind does.