Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Directed by John Carpenter · Cinematography by Dean Cundey
PG-1399 min63 frames
ActionComedyFantasyAdventure
Jack Burton's in for some serious trouble and you're in for some serious fun.
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What is Big Trouble in Little China about?
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan (Hong), who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to be released from a centuries-old curse.
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What does the cinematography of Big Trouble in Little China look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, Big Trouble in Little China builds its coverage from medium shots (41% of the sample), with close-ups (27%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dean Cundey keeps 62% of it in soft, low-key light. 71% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 65% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Big Trouble in Little China (1986) are #302e2e, #15110f, #49372b, #515151, #a98c71, #876c52 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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