13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Directed by Michael Bay · Cinematography by Dion Beebe
R144 min186 frames
WarActionHistoryDrama
When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
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An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a 2016 American biographical action-thriller film, directed and produced by Michael Bay. Written by Chuck Hogan, it is based on the 2014 non-fiction book 13 Hours by American author Mitchell Zuckoff. The film follows six members of the Annex Security Team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya after waves of attacks by militants on September 11, 2012. The film stars James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Max Martini, David Denman and Dominic Fumusa, with supporting roles by Toby Stephens, Alexia Barlier and David Costabile. Filming on location began on April 27, 2015, in Libya.
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Across 185 sampled frames, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi builds its coverage from medium shots (45% of the sample), with wide compositions (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dion Beebe keeps 51% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. 52% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 64% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) are #2e302d, #0c0d0d, #8e8a70, #51524b, #f7f8f6, #d2d2cd — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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