Xanadu (1980)
Directed by Robert Greenwald · Cinematography by Victor J. Kemper
PG96 min64 frames
FantasyScience FictionRomance
A Fantasy, A Musical, A Place Where Dreams Come True.
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What is Xanadu about?
Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.
Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. Starring Olivia Newton-John along with Michael Beck and Gene Kelly in his final film role, the film features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard and the Tubes. The title refers to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China. The city itself appears in the 1816 poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is quoted by Newton-John's character in the film.
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What does the cinematography of Xanadu look like?
Across 64 sampled frames, Xanadu builds its coverage from medium shots (38% of the sample), with wide compositions (34%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Victor J. Kemper keeps 44% of it in soft, low-key light. 61% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 63% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
What is the color palette of Xanadu?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Xanadu (1980) are #0c090a, #302f2f, #f9f8f4, #d8d4cf, #d6caaf, #766d68 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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