{"title":"Best Mercenary Movies","theme":"mercenary","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/mercenary","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":16,"listedFilms":14,"frames":1441,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"assault rifle","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":17.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00324,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00018,"observedInFrames":27},{"element":"tactical vest","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":11.22,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00913,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00081,"observedInFrames":76},{"element":"rifle","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":7.12,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00889,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00125,"observedInFrames":74},{"element":"soldier","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.32,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00649,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0015,"observedInFrames":54},{"element":"fire","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.84,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00553,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00144,"observedInFrames":46},{"element":"military uniform","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.003,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00103,"observedInFrames":25},{"element":"beard","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.9,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00889,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00307,"observedInFrames":74},{"element":"concrete wall","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.77,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00457,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00165,"observedInFrames":38}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.444,"ratio":0.98},{"hue":"blue","share":0.182,"ratio":1.05},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.122,"ratio":1.6},{"hue":"red","share":0.103,"ratio":0.68}],"meanSaturation":0.242,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.401,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi","year":2016,"director":"Michael Bay","cinematographer":"Dion Beebe","exemplarScore":1.838,"framesIndexed":201,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/13-hours-the-secret-soldiers-of-benghazi-2016"},{"rank":2,"title":"Blood Diamond","year":2006,"director":"Edward Zwick","cinematographer":"Eduardo Serra","exemplarScore":1.109,"framesIndexed":226,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/blood-diamond-2006"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Rock","year":1996,"director":"Michael Bay","cinematographer":"John Schwartzman","exemplarScore":0.972,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-rock-1996"},{"rank":4,"title":"The Last Samurai","year":2003,"director":"Edward Zwick","cinematographer":"John Toll","exemplarScore":0.815,"framesIndexed":166,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-last-samurai-2003"},{"rank":5,"title":"Deadpool 2","year":2018,"director":"David Leitch","cinematographer":"Jonathan Sela","exemplarScore":0.75,"framesIndexed":55,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/deadpool-2-2018"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Wind That Shakes the Barley","year":2006,"director":"Ken Loach","cinematographer":"Barry Ackroyd","exemplarScore":0.661,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-wind-that-shakes-the-barley-2006"},{"rank":7,"title":"Alien: Resurrection","year":1997,"director":"Jean-Pierre Jeunet","cinematographer":"Darius Khondji","exemplarScore":0.44,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/alien-resurrection-1997"},{"rank":8,"title":"Ice Road: Vengeance","year":2025,"director":"Jonathan Hensleigh","cinematographer":"Tom Stern","exemplarScore":0.333,"framesIndexed":88,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/ice-road-vengeance-2025"},{"rank":9,"title":"Streets of Fire","year":1984,"director":"Walter Hill","cinematographer":"Andrew Laszlo","exemplarScore":0.334,"framesIndexed":56,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/streets-of-fire-1984"},{"rank":10,"title":"Hard Target","year":1993,"director":"John Woo","cinematographer":"Russell Carpenter","exemplarScore":0.295,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hard-target-1993"}],"outlier":{"title":"Haywire","year":2011,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}