15 Movies you should watch for beautiful colors
Color in the movies plays as an important role as in photography or design. It’s used as an additional powerful way to emphasize the idea of the director, reflect the mood of the scene or give that special accent. It’s not unusual that movie effects inspire most stunning artworks in photography and design, it also happens other way round. Movies with stunning use of color, texture and imagery are here for your inspiration. Do you have a favorite movie with beautiful colors not mentioned here? Please speak out in the comments.
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Hero has truly stunning visuals; the five colors are used as a symbol for five different story lines. Each episode is drenched in red, blue, white or another dominant color.
Amélie’s color scheme is saturated with reds and greens with accents of blue and yellow. It’s works hand-in-hand with plot and tone, putting in a warm world when appropriate, then shifting to a cooler look as the emotional emphasis shifts.
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red)
Three Colors Trilogy is a set of three movies directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. Blue, white, and red are the colors of the French flag. The director used blue, white, and red to give him the predominant color and mood for each of the movies.
The picture was deliberately overlit, and the negative was bleach-bypassed during post-production. This gave the movie a distinctive look, with colors desaturated, yet the blacks and shadows have a high contrast, looking almost like a film noir picture.
Kubrick is known for the use of whites and blacks in his movies but on Eyes Wide Shut warm colors dominate the movies (with contrast in blue cold colors) reflecting the movies sexual themes.
The movie uses quite a lot of dark colors to suggest a mysterious atmosphere, for example in the bar. When in the streets of Tokyo it is brighter colors, but on the other hand the colors are used in a way that express the confused atmosphere.
One of the great uses of color in film, this movie goes along the life journey of the last Emperor of China representing various ages with different colors that make up the entire chromatic spectrum of visible energy.
Color timeline represents progression from a Technicolor’s two-color palette to a vibrant three-strip palette and into a more contemporary look to reflect the technological advances of the movie industry at that time and mirror the characters’ emotional evolution.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
the movie’s color schemes present to the viewer a mnemonic method for arranging the movie’s non-linear narrative within an intelligible order as well as stages in their relationship from the first time meeting to break up.
The use of varying color saturations emphasize different aspects of the immensely colorful story, cutting quickly back and forth between the actors’ subtle facial expressions to fit the mood of the scene, whether it be slapstick comedy, unbridled lust, or tragic romance.
This movie combines high and low key lighting as well as visually-rich and well-toned color added to the emotional aspect as well as the visual interpretation of the movie.
Sin City used unique coloring procession, which rendered most of the movie in black and white but retained or added coloring for select objects. To make it appear more like the original comic, the movie was treated for heightened contrast so as to more clearly separate blacks and whites.
Some of the scenes in The Cell movie are inspired by works of art; the director uses saturated live colors and the gloomy colors to contrast between good and evil.
This movie has stunning visuals and vibrant colors with the accent on the red and blue which is duality colors often used in place of black and white, and most commonly represent the earth and heavens.
This movie has a stunning combination of color, texture and imagery all seem to have roots in the impressionistic and surrealistic paintings of the 19th century.
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