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