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O Brother, Where Art Thou? poster

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) colour palette

Directed by Joel Coen · Shot by Roger Deakins

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), shot by Roger Deakins, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 62 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is deep orange (#38322c), covering 6.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.872 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.337 — more saturated than 82% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.433 — brighter than 64% of ranked films

Measured across 62 frames. See the frames on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? page →

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