The Hateful Eight (2015)

Directed by Quentin Tarantino · Cinematography by Robert Richardson

R168 min50 frames

DramaMysteryWestern

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What is The Hateful Eight about?

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American Western mystery thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight dubious strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover a decade after the American Civil War.

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What does the cinematography of The Hateful Eight look like?

Across 50 sampled frames, The Hateful Eight builds its coverage from wide compositions (40% of the sample), with medium shots (34%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Robert Richardson keeps 58% of it in soft, low-key light. 44% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 58% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1800s.

What is the color palette of The Hateful Eight?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Hateful Eight (2015) are #2f2d2e, #141210, #534736, #f0f2f2, #43382e, #2f251b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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