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The Purge: Election Year (2016)

Directed by James DeMonaco · Cinematography by Jacques Jouffret

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What is The Purge: Election Year about?

Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.

The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 American political action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco and starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Mykelti Williamson. It is the sequel to The Purge: Anarchy and is the third installment in the Purge franchise. Jason Blum and Michael Bay are among the film's producers. The film follows a presidential candidate who seeks to end the Purge and her Secret Service bodyguard as they are trapped in Washington, D.C. during the event.

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Sampled across 54 frames, the coverage of The Purge: Election Year leans on medium shots (41% of the sample) and wide compositions (26%). Cinematographer Jacques Jouffret keeps 74% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 80% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 67% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Purge: Election Year (2016) are #0d110f, #2e302f, #f2f2ef, #14292a, #4d524d, #282319 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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