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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Directed by David Fincher · Cinematography by Jeff Cronenweth

R158 min60 frames

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What is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo about?

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a girl from a wealthy family who had disappeared 40 years earlier. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker.

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What does the cinematography of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo look like?

Across 60 sampled frames, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo builds its coverage from medium shots (47% of the sample), with wide compositions (22%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth keeps 65% of it in soft, low-key light. 65% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 70% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) are #2d322d, #141513, #484734, #4f544c, #70736c, #192628 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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