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American Gangster (2007) colour palette

Directed by Ridley Scott · Shot by Harris Savides

American Gangster (2007), shot by Harris Savides, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32302d), covering 16.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.869 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.134 — more saturated than 7% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.379 — brighter than 25% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the American Gangster page →

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