Bad Boys (1995)

Directed by Michael Bay · Cinematography by Howard Atherton

R119 min56 frames

ActionComedyCrimeThriller

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What is Bad Boys about?

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

Where can you watch Bad Boys?

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What does the cinematography of Bad Boys look like?

Across 56 sampled frames, Bad Boys builds its coverage from medium shots (38% of the sample), with wide compositions (32%) carrying much of the rest. Low angles recur throughout. Cinematographer Howard Atherton keeps 39% of it in soft, low-key light. 48% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.

What is the color palette of Bad Boys?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Bad Boys (1995) are #302f2d, #100f0e, #4d4d49, #cececb, #50473b, #0c122e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #4d4d49
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  • #50473b
  • #0c122e

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