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Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (2018)

Directed by Dennis Gansel · Cinematography by Torsten Breuer

110 min212 frames

AdventureFamilyFantasy

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What is Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver about?

A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.

Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver is a 2018 German fantasy adventure film directed by Dennis Gansel and produced by Christian Becker. It is an adaptation of the 1960 children's book by Michael Ende. It stars Solomon Gordon as Jim Button and Henning Baum as Luke the Engine Driver.

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What does the cinematography of Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver look like?

Sampled across 200 frames, the coverage of Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver leans on medium shots (39% of the sample) and wide compositions (26%). Cinematographer Torsten Breuer keeps 51% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Golden-hour light is a recurring motif, appearing in 15% of the sample. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 70% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (2018) are #32302d, #101010, #53514a, #d0b38d, #ab946f, #907452 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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