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Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Directed by John Krokidas · Cinematography by Reed Morano

R104 min59 frames

DramaRomanceThriller

A true story of obsession and murder.

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What is Kill Your Darlings about?

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Kill Your Darlings is a 2013 American biographical drama film about the college lives of leading members of the Beat Generation: Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. Written by Austin Bunn, it is directed by John Krokidas in his feature film directorial debut.

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What does the cinematography of Kill Your Darlings look like?

Across 56 sampled frames, Kill Your Darlings builds its coverage from medium shots (43% of the sample), with close-ups (43%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Reed Morano keeps 54% of it in soft, low-key light. 55% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 82% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Kill Your Darlings (2013) are #33302d, #57524c, #141312, #958775, #49372f, #d1cbb3 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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