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Wes Bentley

Wes Bentley

8 films · 577 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19992018

Born 4 September 1978 · Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA

Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley is an American film actor known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999) and Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012). Bentley was one of four subjects in the documentary My Big Break (2009), which covered his fame after American Beauty and struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premier of Venus in Fur by David Ives in the off-Broadway production in 2010, whose run was extended.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 577 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Wes takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 8 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Wes takes.

Time of day

Day46%
Night40%
Interior6%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Natural45%
Low key40%
High key10%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium39%
Wide25%
Closeup23%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
Low angle10%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral65%
Tense15%
Lonely13%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 577 frames from Wes Bentley's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.