Contraband (2012)
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur · Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd
R109 min196 frames
ThrillerActionDramaCrime
What would you hide to protect your family?
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What is Contraband about?
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Contraband is a 2012 action thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J. K. Simmons and follows a former smuggler who is coerced to smuggle illicit goods from Panama into the United States. The film is a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam distributed by Universal Pictures.
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What does the cinematography of Contraband look like?
Across 192 sampled frames, Contraband builds its coverage from medium shots (54% of the sample), with close-ups (21%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd keeps 53% of it in soft, low-key light. 53% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 76% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Contraband?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Contraband (2012) are #31302c, #121210, #53524c, #d4d3cb, #f8f9f6, #8f8874 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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