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Ride With The Devil

Directed by Ang Lee · Cinematography by Frederick Elmes

R138 min64 frames

DramaWarRomanceWestern

In a No-man's Land between North and South, You didn't fight for the Blue or the Grey... You fought for your friends and family.

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Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — A vast, grassy prairie under a twilight sky features distant rolling bluffs and hills. A single small wagon…Ride With The Devil movie still: closeup — A dark space with a single bright light source illuminating a writing surface. A hand holds a white…Ride With The Devil movie still: fullbody — A wooden farmhouse porch features weathered white siding and various antique wooden tools. A young…Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — A rain-drenched swamp filled with dead, leafless tree trunks standing in dark murky water. Dense green…Ride With The Devil movie still: medium — A rural farm with a wooden cabin sits in a green field. A mature woman stands in the foreground while a…Ride With The Devil movie still: medium — A dimly lit interior space features a wooden door frame partially obscuring a man. The man looks toward…Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — A group of men on horseback pause near a quiet pond surrounded by trees. The cavalrymen are scattered along…Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — A vast, open field of dry grass sits under a dense, overcast gray sky. A lone figure on horseback moves…Ride With The Devil movie still: closeup — A man stands outdoors in a dark field at night with foliage visible nearby. He is illuminated by dim,…Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — A grassy landscape features a reflective pond under a fading deep blue evening sky. A covered wagon pulled…Ride With The Devil movie still: medium — A dark, rustic interior space with indistinct background textures suggests a simple wooden building. Two…Ride With The Devil movie still: medium — A wooden porch of a 19th-century farmhouse features painted balusters and decorative columns. A man stands…Ride With The Devil movie still: closeup — A dense patch of blurred green foliage serves as the backdrop. A person in period clothing points a…Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — An open expanse of dry golden grass stretches towards a treeline under a hazy sky. Three men on horseback…Ride With The Devil movie still: fullbody — A sunny clearing surrounded by dense trees with a white wooden fence in back. Two men in 19th-century…Ride With The Devil movie still: wide — A desolate hillside overlooks a dense forest of leafless trees under a pale sky. Two men sit on a dirt ridge…
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What is Ride With The Devil about?

Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.

Ride with the Devil is a 1999 American revisionist Western film directed by Ang Lee and starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jewel in her feature film debut, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Caviezel, Thomas Guiry and Jonathan Brandis. Based on the novel Woe to Live On, by Daniel Woodrell, the film, set during the American Civil War, follows a group of men who join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers—guerrilla units loyal to pro-Confederacy units of the state—and their war against Northern Jayhawkers allied with the Union army.

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What does the cinematography of Ride With The Devil look like?

Across 63 sampled frames, Ride With The Devil builds its coverage from wide compositions (32% of the sample), with medium shots (27%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Frederick Elmes keeps 79% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1800s.

What is the color palette of Ride With The Devil?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Ride With The Devil are #343229, #575148, #504c3a, #6f6f53, #aeaa93, #918871 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #918871

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