Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Directed by Michael Cimino · Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond
R219 min59 frames
DramaWestern
What one loves about life are the things that fade.
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What is Heaven’s Gate about?
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten, and loosely based on the Johnson County War. It revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants of modest means in Wyoming in the 1890s.
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What does the cinematography of Heaven’s Gate look like?
Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Heaven’s Gate leans on wide compositions (53% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond keeps 46% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 68% of the frames play in daylight. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 59% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Heaven’s Gate?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Heaven’s Gate (1980) are #332f2a, #514738, #948a71, #261b15, #55524a, #897869 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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