Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Directed by Bob Rafelson · Cinematography by Roger Deakins
R136 min61 frames
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Two strangers made friends by a savage land. Two friends made enemies by the civilized world.
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What is Mountains of the Moon about?
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
Mountains of the Moon is a 1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men. The film stars Patrick Bergin as Burton and Iain Glen as Speke. Delroy Lindo appears as an African whom the explorers meet.
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Across 61 sampled frames, Mountains of the Moon builds its coverage from wide compositions (44% of the sample), with medium shots (38%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Roger Deakins keeps 66% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture.
What is the color palette of Mountains of the Moon?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Mountains of the Moon (1990) are #362d2b, #4a342b, #261a13, #a88f74, #534b4a, #d2c7ae — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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