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Gladiator (2000) colour palette

Directed by Ridley Scott · Shot by John Mathieson

Gladiator (2000), shot by John Mathieson, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 90 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#312d2c), covering 6.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.702 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.31 — more saturated than 74% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.396 — brighter than 38% of ranked films

Measured across 90 frames. See the frames on the Gladiator page →

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