Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
Directed by Monte Hellman · Cinematography by Jack Deerson, Gregory Sandor
R102 min60 frames
Drama
no beginning... no end... no speed limit...
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What is Two Lane Blacktop about?
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 American road film directed and edited by Monte Hellman, from a screenplay by Rudy Wurlitzer and Will Corry. It stars musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird in the leading roles. The sparse, existentialist plot follows a group of street racers during a cross-country race through the American Southwest.
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What does the cinematography of Two Lane Blacktop look like?
Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of Two Lane Blacktop leans on medium shots (50% of the sample) and wide compositions (32%). Cinematographer Jack Deerson keeps 78% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 78% of the frames play in daylight. The image texture recalls 16mm. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 65% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of Two Lane Blacktop?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Two Lane Blacktop (1971) are #30312e, #4e524c, #121110, #d7d5cd, #91938c, #abaa94 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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