Boogie Nights
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · Cinematography by Robert Elswit
R155 min61 frames
Drama
The life of a dreamer, the days of a business and the nights in between.
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What is Boogie Nights about?
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
Boogie Nights is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and concerns a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nicole Ari Parker, and Heather Graham.
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What does the cinematography of Boogie Nights look like?
Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of Boogie Nights leans on medium shots (54% of the sample) and close-ups (21%). Cinematographer Robert Elswit keeps 44% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 56% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 67% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Boogie Nights?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Boogie Nights are #322d2c, #100d0d, #f2f1f0, #cfcfce, #4d5153, #8b6a53 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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