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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

Directed by Tommy Lee Jones · Cinematography by Chris Menges

R121 min60 frames

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What is The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada about?

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

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Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada leans on medium shots (42% of the sample) and wide compositions (35%). Cinematographer Chris Menges keeps 68% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 68% of the frames play in daylight. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) are #36322c, #575348, #d7d6d2, #aa9579, #d4caad, #cdaf93 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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