Flash Gordon (1980)
Directed by Mike Hodges · Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor
PG111 min59 frames
Science FictionAdventureAction
Pathetic earthlings...who can save you now?
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What is Flash Gordon about?
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Flash Gordon is a 1980 space opera superhero film directed by Mike Hodges, based on the King Features comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond. The film stars Sam J. Jones in the title role, Melody Anderson, Ornella Muti, Max von Sydow and Topol, with Timothy Dalton, Mariangela Melato, Brian Blessed and Peter Wyngarde in supporting roles. The film follows star football quarterback Flash Gordon (Jones) and his allies Dale Arden (Anderson) and Hans Zarkov (Topol) as they unite the warring factions of the planet Mongo against the oppression of Ming the Merciless, who is intent on destroying Earth.
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Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Flash Gordon leans on wide compositions (39% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor keeps 37% of it in soft, high-key light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 68% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Flash Gordon (1980) are #090909, #312f2d, #8f0303, #cd090a, #360d0d, #cdcdcc — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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