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The Fountain (2006) colour palette

Directed by Darren Aronofsky · Shot by Matthew Libatique

The Fountain (2006), shot by Matthew Libatique, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is near black (#13110f), covering 10.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.946 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.266 — more saturated than 57% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.39 — brighter than 34% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Fountain page →

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