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Gran Torino (2008) colour palette

Directed by Clint Eastwood · Shot by Tom Stern

Gran Torino (2008), shot by Tom Stern, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 63 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and green. The single most common colour is dark grey (#30312c), covering 19.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.712 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.112 — more saturated than 5% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.359 — brighter than 15% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the Gran Torino page →

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