Straw Dogs (1971)
Directed by Sam Peckinpah · Cinematography by John Coquillon
R113 min58 frames
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In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.
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What is Straw Dogs about?
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.
Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm. The film's title is derived from a discussion in the Tao Te Ching that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference.
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What does the cinematography of Straw Dogs look like?
Across 57 sampled frames, Straw Dogs builds its coverage from medium shots (47% of the sample), with wide compositions (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer John Coquillon keeps 46% of it in soft, low-key light. 54% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 61% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of Straw Dogs?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Straw Dogs (1971) are #322e2b, #55504a, #100f0d, #897b6c, #afa591, #d4d0c7 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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