The Descendants (2011)
Directed by Alexander Payne · Cinematography by Phedon Papamichael
R115 min64 frames
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What is The Descendants about?
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
The Descendants is a 2011 American tragicomedy film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash is based on the 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney in the main role, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller in her film debut, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Nick Krause, Michael Ontkean, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster, and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on November 18, 2011, after premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011.
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What does the cinematography of The Descendants look like?
Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of The Descendants leans on wide compositions (33% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael keeps 72% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 66% of the frames play in daylight. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 58% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Descendants?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Descendants (2011) are #30312d, #50524e, #8e8c75, #d4d2ce, #45392f, #90918c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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