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Inglourious Basterds (2009) colour palette

Directed by Quentin Tarantino · Shot by Robert Richardson

Inglourious Basterds (2009), shot by Robert Richardson, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#322e29), covering 11.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.817 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.273 — more saturated than 60% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.362 — brighter than 17% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Inglourious Basterds page →

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