Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) colour palette
Directed by Ang Lee · Shot by Peter Pau Tak-Hai
The main colours of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) are deep orange (#483831) and orange (#89786b), over a near-black base: a warm, heavily desaturated palette, measured across the film's frames.
- #30312cdark grey · 11.5%
- #51504bdark grey · 7.5%
- #111314near black · 5.6%
- #483831deep orange · 4.9%
- #89786borange · 4.6%
- #747268mid grey · 4.6%
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), shot by Peter Pau Tak-Hai, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 61 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and green. The single most common colour is dark grey (#30312c), covering 11.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.
Warmth
warm
0.431 on −1 cool to +1 warm
Saturation
heavily desaturated
0.177 — more saturated than 15% of ranked films
Luminance
dark
0.38 — brighter than 26% of ranked films
Measured across 61 frames. See the frames on the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon page →
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