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here's Enter The Void in a "movie barcode" i guess they call them

 

[Zoe]

The Matrix as released theatrically: blue
The Matrix as altered years later: green

I remember it always being split.

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Batman Begins: brown

The Dark Knight: blue

The Dark Knight Rises: black/white

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

schinler's list - red

I was going to mention this because even though it is for a short period of time, it plays a huge role in the film.

 

[J2 Cool]

Batman Begins - Brown

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Drive did it really well because they didnt abuse color filters. Some movies go overboard and end up over saturated with black crush or washed out with loss of detail in grey scale.

It's a gorgeous movie, no doubt. I think it's one of those movies all all about the style.

I like it, but there isn't a great deal of substance to it. And the lack of dialogue, you could probably write the script on a sheet of A4.

 

[Jimothy]

The first movie was originally more brown / green. My Blu-Ray is more blue/green. It feels more "remastered" rather than a matching job. It looks a bit crisper with that color correction.

EDIT: Hero. Aren't there 3 colours for three sections there?

Found a couple comparison pictures:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/comparisons/comparisons/l_m/matrix/Default.htm

Looks like they upped the greens in the matrix AND real world scenes. The green tint is pretty standard for all remasters, FOTR and Taxi Driver being other examples.

 

[Gorillaz]

Matrix had so much green my god.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

here's Enter The Void in a "movie barcode" i guess they call them

I've always been intrigued by Gasper Noe, Enter The Void and irreversible are on Netflix, worth a watch?

 

[HiResDes]

Irreversible if you want a really down night. Enter the Void if you plan to get under the influence in some manner and just have it on in the background kinda.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Irreversible if you want a really down night. Enter the Void if you plan to get under the influence in some manner and just have it on in the background kinda.

I've got some paperwork to catch up on tomorrow, maybe I'll stick ETV on in the background. I know irreversible is a bit of a video nasty apparently! Human Centipede 2 and August Underground were too much for me, if that's any barometer.

 

[ComputerMKII]

I've always been intrigued by Gasper Noe, Enter The Void and irreversible are on Netflix, worth a watch?

Definitely. Be patient with Enter the Void, though, that movie is long.

 

[SuperEpicMan]

It's a shit movie but The Omen seemed to have a black and white colour scheme but with obvious red things which stick out dramatically.

 

[Dany]

The Matrix as released theatrically: blue
The Matrix as altered years later: green

That sounds right...

Just to add. Its only green when theyre inside the matrix.

This makes more sense, hmmm

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Oh yeah, there's a very evident green hue when inside the matrix.

 

[ComputerMKII]

I've got some paperwork to catch up on tomorrow, maybe I'll stick ETV on in the background. I know irreversible is a bit of a video nasty apparently! Human Centipede 2 and August Underground were too much for me, if that's any barometer.

Irreversible has little visible gore/blood but there definitely is a lot of violence. Enter the Void has gore but is surprisingly not very violent.

 

[SteveWinwood]

I want more movie barcodes.

 

[EightBitNate]

Not movies, but...

Breaking Bad - Green/yellow
Mad Men - Red
Walking Dead - Gray

 

[Weltall Zero]

EDIT: Hero. Aren't there 3 colours for three sections there?

Was going to post that. There's actually no less than five color schemes int he film: black for present, then red, green, blue and white for the other sections in the film (don't want to spoil anything). What's more impressive is that, unlike many examples posted here (as evidenced by the Wired article quoted earlier), it seems to be done mostly by choice of wardrobe and background, rather than digital tinting. This fan-made trailer shows it quite well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srFhXDZhUZI
It has also assured me that it looks every bit as beautiful now than ten years ago, and that's why it's still my favorite wuxia film ever.

 

[twobear]

I've got some paperwork to catch up on tomorrow, maybe I'll stick ETV on in the background. I know irreversible is a bit of a video nasty apparently! Human Centipede 2 and August Underground were too much for me, if that's any barometer.

Irreversible is both more and less shocking than something like Human Centipede 2. Less shocking because Human Centipede 2 is horrible trash. More shocking because Irreversible has something resembling a point behind all the shock.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I want more movie barcodes.

Remember that thread were TV show casts were represented in sticks made of blocks of colour? That was an awesome thread.

Edit:

 

[Osietra]

here's Enter The Void in a "movie barcode" i guess they call them

Aesthetically that's beautiful.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I want more movie barcodes.

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Pitch Black alternates between scorching yellow and dreary creepy blue, depending on what sun is up, and the ambient light effects all the other colors in the film, and similarly the current mood of the film.

 

[SteveWinwood]

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

Why thank you sir.

 

[Krev]

The Dark Knight - Blue of course.

One of many ways Nolan was cribbing from Mann.

 

[Dead Man]

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

These are excellent for seeing if a movies does have a dominant colour.

 

[Osietra]

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

Holy shit. You could actually reproduce these with a nice giclee ink and make some money.

 

[jmdajr]

Stuff I take for granted....

 

[Oppo]

Yeah, using a tool at your disposal in creating art that is known to evoke whatever emotion you're trying to elicit is inherently lazy.

No fucking kidding. That Cracked writer was just dripping with condescension, earned because he "noticed" color grading. What a wanker.

Protip: we've been color timing/grading film for years and years, before the digital era.

 

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twilight

 

[Paddington Bear]

Hulk/The Incredible Hulk - Green... For obvious reasons.

 

[Lamel]

Breaking bad - dull green/desert yellow.

 

[woxel1]

Days of Heaven - Golden

Spoiler

Hour

 

[Fry]

Drive - Orange and Blue... very subtly.

http://imgur.com/a/C3jUq

'Nice jacket, Heisenberg' haha

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

Bourne Trilogy is mostly blue. Incredibly blue actually.

 

[Septimius]

The Matrix as released theatrically: blue
The Matrix as altered years later: green

As I've already said. It was more brown/green in the original, but Matrix has always been very clever and very, very conscious about how it uses color-tinting. In the latter parts of the movies, it becomes greener. In the original, it was always present to underline green being matrix, blue being reality. Remember the scene in the car and the bug in his stomach? Very blue. Because it's becoming of the real.

Did you also note how the rain on the windshield looks like matrix code?

The suits of.. everyone "machine" like? The agents? Green. Did you notice how the pictures in Neo's boss' office have pictures that resemble more matrix code than it does what is in the pictures? How machine-like his bosses speech is, how much it resembles Smith's interrogation later? "You have to choose", "you think you are above the rules. You are not". Neo's suit is actually greener in this shot than his bosses, but a hint at how he's a part of the matrix?

 

[The One Who Knocks]

Pan's Labyrinth or El Laberintho Del Fauno is the most obvious one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet. The real world within the movie is primarily in darker colours, blue and black being the most prominent. To contrast this the much more fairy tale segments are generally lighter, with red and yellow being particularly visible. This feeds very well into the plot, and theme, of the movie so I'm surprised it's not been mentioned yet

For examples:

Real World:

Fantasy:

 

[Banjotanooki]

Sin City: Black and white with a bit of red every now and then.

 

[ScraftyDevil]

Sin City: Black and white with a bit of red every now and then.

And yellow

 

[RevDM]

I noticed a lot of gray shades in Casablanca

 

[runningjoke]

The Fountain is very yellow

 

[lastplayed]

Star Trek '09 - lens flare

 

[BlueSummers]

Hero isn't on the first page? You slackin Gaf.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Since when is Avatar's main colour Purple? It's blue. It's a Cameron film, after all.

 

[jerry1594]

Every Alien movie is associated with a colour, which is reflected by the boxart of their Blu-Ray special editions:

Some Pixar movies also have an obvious colour theme, such as red in The Incredibles, sky bllue in Up, deep blue in Finding Nemo, and green in Brave.

Alien<3

 

[blame space]

pan's labyrinth is dope.. is that movie on netflix?

 

[Vilam]

Traffic was the most egregious example for me. The over saturated oranges used for scenes in Mexico, and the overwhelming blue for any scenes in Washington. I'm all for the subtle use of color, but it was so distracting in that film that it genuinely bothered me when I watched it.

 

[Psychological Intellect]

Finding nemo-blue

lolol

 

[Samara]

I really don't remember the name of the movie but it had Helen Mirren in it, ad each set had a predominant color to it. It went from blue/red/yellow/red.