Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Directed by Tomas Alfredson · Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema
R127 min61 frames
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George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel. The film stars an ensemble cast including Gary Oldman as George Smiley, with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik and Kathy Burke. It is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service.
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Across 61 sampled frames, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy builds its coverage from medium shots (39% of the sample), with wide compositions (30%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema keeps 56% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) are #33312d, #54524d, #161413, #737069, #a59b8e, #d5d0c9 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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