THX 1138 (1971)
Directed by George Lucas · Cinematography by Albert Kihn, David Myers
GP86 min63 frames
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The Future is here.
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What is THX 1138 about?
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
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What does the cinematography of THX 1138 look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of THX 1138 leans on wide compositions (37% of the sample) and medium shots (29%). Cinematographer Albert Kihn keeps 52% of it in high-key light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 65% of the frames.
What is the color palette of THX 1138?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of THX 1138 (1971) are #f5f6f6, #d3d4d3, #0b0b0c, #2d2e2f, #abacad, #4e5050 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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