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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Directed by Shaka King · Cinematography by Sean Bobbitt

R126 min63 frames

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You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution.

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What is Judas and the Black Messiah about?

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Judas and the Black Messiah is a 2021 biographical historical crime drama film directed and produced by Shaka King, who wrote the screenplay with Will Berson, based on a story by the pair and Kenny and Keith Lucas. The film is about the betrayal of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late 1960s Chicago, by William O'Neal, an FBI informant. Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Sheen also star.

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What does the cinematography of Judas and the Black Messiah look like?

Across 61 sampled frames, Judas and the Black Messiah builds its coverage from medium shots (61% of the sample), with close-ups (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt keeps 59% of it in soft, low-key light. 51% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 85% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Judas and the Black Messiah?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) are #30302d, #131412, #51504b, #f7f6f4, #d5d2ce, #46392e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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