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Killing Them Softly (2012) colour palette

Directed by Andrew Dominik · Shot by Greig Fraser

Killing Them Softly (2012), shot by Greig Fraser, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#322f2b), covering 14.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.724 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.148 — more saturated than 9% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.416 — brighter than 52% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Killing Them Softly page →

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