Red Dawn (2012)

Directed by Dan Bradley · Cinematography by Mitchell Amundsen

PG-1393 min149 frames

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What is Red Dawn about?

A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerrilla group of fighters.

Red Dawn is a 2012 American action war film directed by Dan Bradley and written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore. It is a remake of the 1984 film of the same name. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film centers on a group of teenage guerrillas defending their hometown from a North Korean invasion.

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What does the cinematography of Red Dawn look like?

Across 146 sampled frames, Red Dawn builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with wide compositions (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen keeps 55% of it in soft, low-key light. 53% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Red Dawn?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Red Dawn (2012) are #31312d, #121210, #54534c, #4f4838, #28231b, #887a69 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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