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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

Directed by Brad Bird · Cinematography by Robert Elswit

PG-13132 min46 frames

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What is Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol about?

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

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What does the cinematography of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol look like?

Across 46 sampled frames, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol builds its coverage from medium shots (37% of the sample), with wide compositions (33%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Robert Elswit keeps 59% of it in soft, low-key light. 50% 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 59% of the frames.

What is the color palette of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) are #0e1315, #32302e, #0f2932, #d0d1cf, #eff0f1, #a9afb0 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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