Movies that exaggerate the colour...

I'm pretty sure it's just to make it more visually interesting. I really hate staring at movies with bland, washed-out colors (unless it fits the theme of the movie).stevenk4k5

Agreed. I really liked how I Am Legend and King Kong looked.

Not all movies do it but I notice a lot of high-profile movies seem to have a lot of emphasised tone on the colour of the picture. Like, the skies always seem more blue, the grass greener and the skin of people more golden. Some movies are more natural with the colour but why do some movies do this with the colour?

Examples I think of include 300, The Island, Crank, I Am Legend and King Kong. I know some movies match colour to the theme at times but it just seems to be standard now with many movies emphasing colour. Anyone have any thoughts?

Thorpe89

Heroes loves doing this, but instead of just using colour, they are using entire filters to distinguish the mood from another or one place from another. For example, in season one; New York had a very blueish dark filter used while in Japan the filter is blurry greenish. In Texas they use a hint of yellow filters that go with their weather.

I think it's just movie-makers experimenting with color balances to set a certain tone for their movie. You mentioned 300, and that had an almost grungy, dirty, almost grainy look to it. But it was all to create a visual style that highlighted the premise of the movie.

It is happening more often though, but really as long as a movie's colors aren't simply messed with for the hell of it, then I'll be fine. I don't mind some variety.

Every time someone mentions that, I always remember Matrix and the green filter used in the computer world.

I kind of like it, makes the pictures look cooler and cleaner. I hope I'll never get tired of it.

I like it. It makes it more lively and more vivid. I love vivid colors.

In photography, I always edit my pictures to make colors stand out more. I hate washed out colors.

it's all part of what the movie is going for. you look at Stanley Kubrick films and that stuff is generally less colorful than real life is. sometimes colors are bright, sometimes not.

and I didn't know thorpe was British...

Every time someone mentions that, I always remember Matrix and the green filter used in the computer world.

I kind of like it, makes the pictures look cooler and cleaner. I hope I'll never get tired of it.

Hungry_bunny

Yes, the Matrix is very...green.

the first and best one to do it of its time

Some of the modern Spieldberg movies. One in particular is Minority Report. The tone of the whole picture is blue, which I believe the emphasis on this is:

[spoiler] when you are looking into the Precogs visions, they are usually either heavily blurred or heavily tinted blue indicating that you're looking into the future. When you are going through the events of the main character, the scenes look tinted light blue to blue. Because he's already moving forward into his known future. Then after he actually kills Crow in the room, color is actually restored, because we are no longer knowing what the Precogs have predicted. That's my opinion when watching the movie, and these are things that I noticed. [/spoiler]

Another movie is Sunshine...There's actually two tones carried out through this movie, which is actually genious. During the scenes inside the space ship, the tone of the scenes and people are very normal, organic and the rooms & hallways, are kinda pale because of basic flourecent lights. However when the video is outside of the ship or your in the peaceful room where you can see the sun, you're slightly overwhelmed by the colors of the sun. This is to give you the feeling of wanting the light of the sun. Because inside the ship it lacks sun, but when your outside, it overwhelms you and gives you that sudden longing of the sun, hence the name of the movie Sunshine.

There we go, those are the two I totally have noticed.

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Every time someone mentions that, I always remember Matrix and the green filter used in the computer world.

I kind of like it, makes the pictures look cooler and cleaner. I hope I'll never get tired of it.

Ghost_702

Yes, the Matrix is very...green.

Right, usually when they enter the matrix, it gives you the feeling of being in the matrix, but when they are disconnected or they are in a training program, it's usually in full color.

it's all part of what the movie is going for. you look at Stanley Kubrick films and that stuff is generally less colorful than real life is. sometimes colors are bright, sometimes not.

and I didn't know thorpe was British...

quiglythegreat

I thought The Shining and A Clockwork Orange were very colorful, with both of them especially putting an emphasis on very bright and warm colors, which emphasised the dreamy and ridiculous atmosphere of each respective film. However his other films like 2001 and Full Metal Jacket were very darkish and almost grainy to a certain degree, which seemed to be emphasizing the space and war aspects respectively.

Reality is boring, so movies do what they can to make it less boring. ;)

I think more movies need to do the sort of style that was seen in A Scanner Darkly. I thought that was really cool.

Not a movie, but CSI Miami was a lot like that.

Too damn bright.

IDK why, but when I think of colorful movies I think of Disney's Brother Bear. :?_LiquidFlame_

You know, I actually enjoyed the movie, but the ending was incredibly weak...

I'm pretty sure it's just to make it more visually interesting. I really hate staring at movies with bland, washed-out colors (unless it fits the theme of the movie).stevenk4k5

All movies are colour graded by a colourist. Originally to colour match shots that might of been shot on different days or different time of day with different lighting conditions. Film is generally shot quite flat - which means not much colour or contrast so the colourist can then manipulate it how they like. Because this is all done in the digital realm now, the ability to do much more interesting things easily has seen more movies being more experimental.

I've found in the TV series Dexter, they've put red in to the dark areas/shadows which not only gives it subliminal richness but is also a metapor for the blood in Dexter's darkside of his personality.

In TV ads of late washed out 70s colours became a bit of a trend. So is the greeny brown look. Though really rich deep colors will always capture your attention more.