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Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Directed by Stephen Herek · Cinematography by Tim Suhrstedt

PG90 min64 frames

AdventureComedyScience Fiction

History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell.

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What is Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure about?

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The first installment of the Bill & Ted franchise, it stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin. The film follows two metalhead slacker high school students, Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves), who travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high-school history presentation.

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What does the cinematography of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure look like?

Across 64 sampled frames, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure builds its coverage from medium shots (47% of the sample), with wide compositions (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Tim Suhrstedt keeps 44% of it in soft, low-key light. 44% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk.

What is the color palette of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) are #312c2a, #0b0a0a, #d5d2cd, #f8f7f6, #555250, #473a30 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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