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Terrible decisions

dandandandan
in SPECTRE Posts: 92
I have just watched the Day of the Dead doc on the bluray.
Looks like such a wonderfully colourful event.
Who on earth made the decision to make it all washed out yellow in the movie?
What a really really terrible decision.

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  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
    Posts: 1,817
    I guess it was just so people knew it was Mexico.
  • dandandandan
    Posts: 92
    What do you mean by that?
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    Posts: 2,252
    Mexico is "deserty" so they make it yellow.

    Like how there's a blue filter in DAD in the ice scenes
  • dandandandan
    Posts: 92
    But the scenes were of a colourful event set in Mexico City, not the desert.
    And it was very colourful before they took the colour out.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited March 2016 Posts: 6,778
    It wasn't necessary, even more so because they have a title which says that we're in Mexico City.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    I read somewhere that Hoyte Van Hoytema is know for his use of colour filters ?
  • daltondalton
    edited March 2016 Posts: 1,631
    The yellow filter persists in Spectre, though, not just in the Mexico City scenes. It plagues the Rome scenes and dulls what should have been a very crisp-looking location in Austria.

    The decision to do this was definitely one of the big problems with the film. There are a lot of great locations in the film that are all but ruined because of the extreme use of the yellow filter.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    dalton wrote: »
    The yellow filter persists in Spectre, though, not just in the Mexico City scenes. It plagues the Rome scenes and dulls what should have been a very crisp-looking location in Austria.

    The decision to do this was definitely one of the big problems with the film. There are a lot of great locations in the film that are all but ruined because of the extreme use of the yellow filter.

    Austria was yellow?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    Yellow snow, is always bad news ! ;)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    This has been discussed to death in plenty of other threads, no sense in opening up another just for this.

    Locked.
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