Dark City (1998)
Directed by Alex Proyas · Cinematography by Dariusz Wolski
R100 min62 frames
MysteryScience Fiction
They built the city to see what makes us tick. Last night, one of us went off.
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What is Dark City about?
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Alex Proyas. It stars Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, and Ian Richardson. The screenplay was written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs, and David S. Goyer. In the film, Sewell plays an amnesiac man who, finding himself suspected of murder, attempts to discover his true identity and clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known as the "Strangers".
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What does the cinematography of Dark City look like?
Across 62 sampled frames, Dark City builds its coverage from wide compositions (37% of the sample), with medium shots (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski keeps 84% of it in low-key light. 84% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of Dark City?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dark City (1998) are #0e100e, #2f332a, #4b4a39, #25261a, #d2d4ca, #172c2d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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