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Alien: Resurrection (1997) colour palette

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Shot by Darius Khondji

Alien: Resurrection (1997), shot by Darius Khondji, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is near black (#12120f), covering 12% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.691 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.207 — more saturated than 28% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.338 — brighter than 7% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the Alien: Resurrection page →

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