Time Bandits (1981)
Directed by Terry Gilliam · Cinematography by Peter Biziou
PG110 min64 frames
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…they didn’t make history, they stole it!
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What is Time Bandits about?
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
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What does the cinematography of Time Bandits look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of Time Bandits leans on wide compositions (37% of the sample) and medium shots (25%). The camera returns again and again to low angles. Cinematographer Peter Biziou keeps 49% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 43% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 60% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Time Bandits?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Time Bandits (1981) are #302c2a, #514f4c, #121110, #463930, #b0acad, #93918f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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