{"title":"Best Manipulation Movies","theme":"manipulation","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/manipulation","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":22,"listedFilms":15,"frames":1944,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"blonde hair","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.51,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00334,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00133,"observedInFrames":37},{"element":"neon sign","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00407,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00203,"observedInFrames":45},{"element":"mirror","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.85,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00425,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0023,"observedInFrames":47},{"element":"skin","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.74,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00524,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00301,"observedInFrames":58},{"element":"chair","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.73,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00407,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00235,"observedInFrames":45},{"element":"desk","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.57,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00389,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00247,"observedInFrames":43}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3266,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.77},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8465,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.23},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2527,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.22}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.441,"ratio":0.97},{"hue":"red","share":0.177,"ratio":1.17},{"hue":"blue","share":0.167,"ratio":0.96},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.073,"ratio":1.3}],"meanSaturation":0.232,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.429,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Filth","year":2013,"director":"Jon S. Baird","cinematographer":"Matthew Jensen","exemplarScore":1.332,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/filth-2013"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Neon Demon","year":2016,"director":"Nicolas Winding Refn","cinematographer":"Natasha Braier","exemplarScore":1.26,"framesIndexed":61,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-neon-demon-2016"},{"rank":3,"title":"Dressed to Kill","year":1980,"director":"Brian De Palma","cinematographer":"Ralf D. Bode","exemplarScore":1.233,"framesIndexed":204,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/dressed-to-kill-1980"},{"rank":4,"title":"Ex Machina","year":2015,"director":"Alex Garland","cinematographer":"Rob Hardy","exemplarScore":1.02,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/ex-machina-2015"},{"rank":5,"title":"Sicario","year":2015,"director":"Denis Villeneuve","cinematographer":"Roger Deakins","exemplarScore":0.916,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sicario-2015"},{"rank":6,"title":"Inception","year":2010,"director":"Christopher Nolan","cinematographer":"Wally Pfister","exemplarScore":0.799,"framesIndexed":72,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/inception-2010"},{"rank":7,"title":"Megalopolis","year":2024,"director":"Francis Ford Coppola","cinematographer":"Mihai Malaimare Jr.","exemplarScore":0.83,"framesIndexed":187,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/megalopolis-2024"},{"rank":8,"title":"Memento","year":2000,"director":"Christopher Nolan","cinematographer":"Wally Pfister","exemplarScore":0.718,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/memento-2000"},{"rank":9,"title":"Get Out","year":2017,"director":"Jordan Peele","cinematographer":"Toby Oliver","exemplarScore":0.703,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/get-out-2017"},{"rank":10,"title":"Dark City","year":1998,"director":"Alex Proyas","cinematographer":"Dariusz Wolski","exemplarScore":0.695,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/dark-city-1998"}],"outlier":{"title":"The Lion King","year":1994,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}