The Shape of Water (2017)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro · Cinematography by Dan Laustsen
R123 min60 frames
DramaFantasyRomance
A fairy tale for troubled times.
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What is The Shape of Water about?
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
The Shape of Water is a 2017 period romantic dark fantasy film directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, and inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of an evil colonel. Filming took place on location in Ontario, Canada, from August to November 2016.
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What does the cinematography of The Shape of Water look like?
Across 59 sampled frames, The Shape of Water builds its coverage from medium shots (44% of the sample), with wide compositions (29%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dan Laustsen keeps 85% of it in soft, low-key light. 83% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. The production design places the film in the 1960s.
What is the color palette of The Shape of Water?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Shape of Water (2017) are #2b342e, #101410, #0f2a28, #4e564c, #2a2918, #304d49 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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