Hard Boiled (1992)
Directed by John Woo · Cinematography by Horace Wong Wing-Hang
R128 min53 frames
ActionThrillerCrime
As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill.
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What is Hard Boiled about?
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
Hard Boiled is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Gordon Chan and Barry Wong, based on a story by Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, alongside Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Teresa Mo. It follows a hard-boiled police inspector whose pursuit of a violent Triad syndicate draws him into a dangerous operation involving an undercover officer working deep within the criminal organization.
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What does the cinematography of Hard Boiled look like?
Sampled across 53 frames, the coverage of Hard Boiled leans on medium shots (45% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Horace Wong Wing-Hang keeps 38% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 45% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1990s.
What is the color palette of Hard Boiled?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Hard Boiled (1992) are #2e302d, #d3d5cf, #74786e, #555754, #2e394b, #acad95 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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