Cape Fear
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: high
Audience Score
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The Verdict
Scorsese's Cape Fear is a pure psychological thriller with zero identity messaging. Its villain embodies a menacing, predatory masculinity, but that's character-driven horror rather than any ideological framing. Nothing here registers as woke.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
0No established characters are race- or gender-swapped; original characters in a remake of the 1962 film.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
5No girlboss framing; Sam Bowden is a flawed but central male protagonist and his wife/daughter are family characters.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+ content present.
DEI Casting
3Casting reflects a small Southern town with no quota-driven choices contradicting the setting.
Preachiness
5A tense psychological thriller; no sermonizing or activist messaging.
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
10Cady's predatory masculinity is villainous but it's character-specific menace, not a thematic indictment of men or the West.
- Max Cady as a Bible-quoting psychotic rapist stalker
Source Betrayal
5A faithful remake of the 1962 film with no identity- or agenda-driven changes.
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Cast & Crew
Robert De Niro
Max Cady
Nick Nolte
Sam Bowden
Jessica Lange
Leigh Bowden
Juliette Lewis
Danielle Bowden
Joe Don Baker
Claude Kersek
Robert Mitchum
Lieutenant Elgart
Gregory Peck
Lee Heller
Martin Balsam
Judge
Illeana Douglas
Lori Davis
Fred Thompson
Tom Broadbent
Kathleen Kennedy (Executive Producer) · Martin Scorsese (Director) · Frank Marshall (Executive Producer)
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