Being There (1979)
Directed by Hal Ashby · Cinematography by Caleb Deschanel
PG130 min64 frames
ComedyDrama
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
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Being There — official trailer
What is Being There about?
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
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What does the cinematography of Being There look like?
Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of Being There leans on medium shots (48% of the sample) and wide compositions (34%). Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel keeps 53% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 47% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Being There?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Being There (1979) are #322e2d, #110f0e, #514f4b, #241915, #d7d2cb, #4b362b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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