Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Directed by Billy Wilder · Cinematography by Joseph LaShelle

PG-13125 min139 frames

ComedyRomance

It happened in Climax, Nevada

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What is Kiss Me, Stupid about?

While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.

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What does the cinematography of Kiss Me, Stupid look like?

Across 139 sampled frames, medium shots dominate the coverage of Kiss Me, Stupid (78% of the sample). Cinematographer Joseph LaShelle keeps 40% of it in hard-edged, high-key light. 53% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 58% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

What is the color palette of Kiss Me, Stupid?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) are #000000, #ffffff, #848484, #c4c4c4, #424242, #313131 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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