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A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005)

Directed by Garth Jennings · Cinematography by Igor Jadue-Lillo

PG109 min65 frames

AdventureComedyScience Fiction

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What is A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy about?

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Yasiin Bey, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, and John Malkovich, and the voices of Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren, Richard Griffiths, Thomas Lennon, Ian McNeice, and Alan Rickman. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick, and the film is dedicated to Adams, who died in 2001 before production began. The film received mainly positive reviews and grossed over $100 million worldwide.

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What does the cinematography of A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy look like?

Across 65 sampled frames, A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy builds its coverage from wide compositions (35% of the sample), with medium shots (22%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Igor Jadue-Lillo keeps 43% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 65% of the frames.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (2005) are #312f2c, #f3f4f2, #d1d2cf, #4b4d3a, #100c0d, #71756b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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