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Fatal Attraction (1987) colour palette

Directed by Adrian Lyne · Shot by Howard Atherton

Fatal Attraction (1987), shot by Howard Atherton, 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 (#312c2d), covering 11.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.736 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.171 — more saturated than 13% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.452 — brighter than 78% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Fatal Attraction page →

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