Scrooged (1988)
Directed by Richard Donner · Cinematography by Michael Chapman
PG-13101 min59 frames
FantasyComedyDrama
The spirits will move you in odd and hysterical ways.
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What is Scrooged about?
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional 20th century retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard.
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What does the cinematography of Scrooged look like?
Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Scrooged leans on medium shots (34% of the sample) and wide compositions (34%). Cinematographer Michael Chapman keeps 54% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 64% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 59% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
What is the color palette of Scrooged?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Scrooged (1988) are #2e2c2c, #0c0b0b, #504d4f, #d3cfcc, #f7f7f8, #78716f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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