Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

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Captain America: The First Avenger — official trailer

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What is Captain America: The First Avenger about?

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Joe Johnston, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, and Stanley Tucci. During World War II, Rogers, a frail man, is transformed into the super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull (Weaving) from using the Tesseract as an energy source for world domination.

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Who stars in Captain America: The First Avenger?

• Chris Evansas Captain America / Steve Rogers
• Hayley Atwellas Peggy Carter
• Sebastian Stanas James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes

Who made Captain America: The First Avenger?

• Joe JohnstonDirector
• Shelly JohnsonCinematography
• Kevin FeigeProducer

What does the cinematography of Captain America: The First Avenger look like?

Across 63 sampled frames, Captain America: The First Avenger builds its coverage from medium shots (46% of the sample), with wide compositions (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Shelly Johnson keeps 57% of it in soft, low-key light. 54% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 63% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.

What is the color palette of Captain America: The First Avenger?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) are #302e2d, #0f0f0f, #514f4e, #251b16, #0c1929, #453934 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

• #302e2d
• #0f0f0f
• #514f4e
• #251b16
• #0c1929
• #453934

See the full Captain America: The First Avenger colour palette — every hex with its share, plus warmth, saturation and luminance.

Captain America: The First Avenger ranks in

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Techniques in this film

• Anamorphic Lens Shots
• Soft Light
• Shallow Depth of Field
• Night Scenes
• Wide Shots

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