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A Dangerous Method colour palette

Directed by David Cronenberg · Shot by Peter Suschitzky

A Dangerous Method, shot by Peter Suschitzky, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#322e2a), covering 13.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.723 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.17 — more saturated than 13% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.453 — brighter than 79% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the A Dangerous Method page →

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