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What Lies Beneath (2000) colour palette

Directed by Robert Zemeckis · Shot by Don Burgess

What Lies Beneath (2000), shot by Don Burgess, runs heavily desaturated and cool, measured across 32 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and orange. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2e2e2e), covering 18.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

cool

-0.332 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.173 — more saturated than 14% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.385 — brighter than 31% of ranked films

Measured across 32 frames. See the frames on the What Lies Beneath page →

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