Hud (1963)
Directed by Martin Ritt · Cinematography by James Wong Howe
Approved112 min64 frames
DramaWestern
The man with the barbed-wire soul.
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What is Hud about?
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
Hud is a 1963 American contemporary Western film directed and produced by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, and Patricia Neal. It was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures. Its screenplay was by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. and was based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel, Horseman, Pass By. The film's title character, Hud Bannon, was a minor character in the original screenplay, but was reworked as the lead role. With its main character an antihero, Hud was later described as a revisionist Western.
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What does the cinematography of Hud look like?
Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of Hud leans on medium shots (56% of the sample) and wide compositions (27%). Cinematographer James Wong Howe keeps 52% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 69% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Hud?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Hud (1963) are #030303, #fbfbfb, #484848, #878787, #afafaf, #c8c8c8 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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