Color Palettes From Famous Movies Show How Colors Set The Mood Of A Film
Trainspotting (1996) dir. Danny Boyle
Color sets the tone and mood of a film before any of the actors have even uttered a word. Directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski used a green tint in The Matrix (1999) to create a mood palette that was suggestive of the early monochrome computer monitors. Yellow was used in Kill Bill (2003) to depict Uma Thurman’s character’s madness and instability. Romantic comedies use pastel shades like beige, pink and lilac. Sci-fi and cyborg films use shades of blue, grey and green. Teal and orange seem to be the trend in Hollywood nowadays, especially in movie adaptations of graphic novels and comic books.
Highlighting the significance of color in films, Twitter account @CinemaPalettes shares color palettes derived from memorable scenes from famous movies. So far they’ve compiled more than 250 palettes, and yes, they also take requests. Some of these might even give you color ideas for your next design project. Check them out below.
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Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas
Melancholia (2011) dir. Lars von Trier
Django Unchained (2012) dir. Quentin Tarantino
Lost in Translation (2003) dir. Sofia Coppola
The Blues Brothers (1980) dir. John Landis
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) dir. Wes Anderson
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit
Funny Face (1957) dir. Stanley Donen
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) dir. Terry Gilliam
The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Léon: The Professional (1994) dir. Luc Besson
The Revenant (2015) dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
Deadpool (2016) dir. Tim Miller
American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron
American Beauty (1999) dir. Sam Mendes
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller
The Hateful Eight (2015) dir. Quentin Tarantino
Constantine (2005) dir. Francis Lawrence
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) dir. David Zucker
Home Alone (1990) dir. Chris Columbus
Peter Pan (1953) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Edward Scissorhands (1990) dir. Tim Burton
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) dir. Wes Anderson
Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) dir. James Bobin
Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott
Gone Girl (2014) dir. David Fincher
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme
The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Shaun of the Dead (2004) dir. Edgar Wright
The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir
American Beauty (1999) dir. Sam Mendes
Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino
Fargo (1996) dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) dir. David Fincher
