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The King Of Marvin Gardens

Directed by Bob Rafelson · Cinematography by László Kovács

R103 min61 frames

Drama

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What is The King Of Marvin Gardens about?

Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.

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What does the cinematography of The King Of Marvin Gardens look like?

Across 60 sampled frames, The King Of Marvin Gardens builds its coverage from medium shots (53% of the sample), with wide compositions (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer László Kovács keeps 43% of it in soft, low-key light. 45% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1970s.

What is the color palette of The King Of Marvin Gardens?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The King Of Marvin Gardens are #312d2b, #d5d2cc, #121010, #524e4b, #8e918e, #251c18 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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