Burn After Reading (2008)
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki
R96 min65 frames
ComedyDrama
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What is Burn After Reading about?
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy espionage film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox, whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees. When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they embark on a series of misadventures in an attempt to profit from their find. The film also stars George Clooney as a womanizing U.S. Marshal; Tilda Swinton as Katie Cox, the wife of Osborne Cox; Richard Jenkins as the gym manager; and J. K. Simmons as a CIA supervisor.
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What does the cinematography of Burn After Reading look like?
Across 65 sampled frames, Burn After Reading builds its coverage from medium shots (48% of the sample), with wide compositions (22%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki keeps 45% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 68% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Burn After Reading?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Burn After Reading (2008) are #31302e, #525250, #d4d2cd, #90918b, #acadad, #463a34 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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