teal & orange.xls

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poll

i'd say pixar

This one even has bokeh!
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its really tough to judge most of those on their own merits, cuz of the associations i have w/each one - feel like the WB shield is super classic though

http://jayisgames.com/games/tealy-and-orangey/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4bnwvGmKM

while watching the "tree of life" tealer this came up

that game is tough

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Winter Wipeout Zone, teal contestants/obstacles/water accented by orange fire

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-02/59181274.jpg

Clearly this photo was tampered with, because these colors occur nowhere together in real life.

holy shit, they just showed a clip on conan of the new adam sandler movie & it was maybe the most orange & teal-y thing

that i've ever seen

the specific scene i'm talking about isn't on youtube but this fucking trailer

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I think the "teal & orange" thing is like when you learn the meaning of a new word, and then suddenly you hear and notice that word in print everywhere. Even though they were always there.

The place where it goes bad is when people start pretending like teal and orange is a totally unacceptable color combination, and is totally made up, and is taking over our lives.

aw man, well at least I know what next month's WDYLL theme should be.

xp For instance this:

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is a bit of a stretch.

(... for that bikini, amirite?!)

Seriously, Jordan, after the first three-ish photos you posted, none of them contain unusual amounts of teal OR orange.

Let Me In owns this thread

i don't agree -- i mean, somehow (a coincidence?) 80% of the extras in the background of these scenes happen to be wearing teal or orange?

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i mean a totally classic random sample here of people wearing all different color shirts at the chuck-e-cheese

So the problem is with the wall color of a Chuck-E-Cheese in a movie? Of the shirt of a random background guy?

I assume this thread is meant as a complaint. If it's just meant as observation, then I gently and politely do not care.

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classic couple of dudes, just hanging out in teal & orange shirts next to a teal vase w/ orange flowers

And that means...?

I don't think the issue is as much with costumes and set decorations as it is with the post-production colour correction.

that it looks fucking retarded in succession

it's clearly an aesthetic choice & it's a terrible one

I don't think the issue is as much with costumes and set decorations as it is with the post-production colour correction.

I understand, that's ostensibly the trouble brewing here. The reason that particular palette is used so often is because the flesh tones remain reasonably believable, but the blues opposite those tones stand out in high contrast. It's all about making the blacks blacker, I think. It's a fashion, it will fade, and movies from this time period will be recognizable for that particular look.

It's not a bad color combination, I don't think. I have much more of a problem with the obsession with making the blacks as black as the cover of "Smell the Glove," and that's not just a movie problem. Every "glossy" computer monitor nowadays has it, as well.

still, all of those jpgs pale in comparison to the scene they showed on conan -- ill try & get some shots w/ my phone but srsly y'all should turn it on in like 20 mins

I think it's that teal and orange are opposites on the colour wheel (or something like that). they make each other 'pop', as it were. that's why they do it. I blame Ridley Scott.

yes that is why

Yes, that is indeed why.

wait i knew i ripped that off from a blog somewhere. stealin' from here

I have debunked that blog post before, elsewhere on ILX, to the best of my ability, and I don't care enough to dig it up.

Point is, it's a silly thing to get up in arms about.

i thought there was some sort of deja vu to all of this. shouldn't skim threads while watching Machete.

"It's teal and orange and it makes me ANGRY!" Whoa whoa, easy there. The artform of film will survive this.

kenan otm

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i'd crush her blue

Started watching a few minutes of Worth last night which is excessively Teal & Orange. At first I wondered if this was a clever nod to the past, but then thought it wasn’t a thing until the late 00s - so perhaps just lazy filmaking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAemeB9CAw

A spot of teal and orange talk on this dissection of the colours of Skyfall and Spectre (which is slightly undermined by them being as forgettable as each other in my mind)

London and MI6 in particular are the only locations defined by what we might call a teal-and-orange palette; a sort of idling-state palette for Bond's home, but one where the desaturation implies a nice sort of decrepitude and rot. pic.twitter.com/IlvmhvhpcW

— Devan Scott (@SadHillDevan) November 11, 2021

I like the color palette on The Forever Purge, how would you guys describe it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrXpK-rUaI

This thread is making me nostalgic: teal, orange and gray were the colors in shops in 1999 when I was fifteen and buying my first set of Nice Grown-Up Clothes for a school exchange. I had a beautiful soft gray sweater from the Gap with bands of dark gray, dusty teal, and dusty orange on the sleeves. It was my favorite sweater for years until it tragically shrank in the wash.

that thread on Skyfall/Spectre is really good, disagree that they're both forgettable.

I don't like Bond movies much at all but I thought Skyfall was one of the best I'd seen whereas Spectre was largely unmemorable - that thread articulates at least partly why that was the case.

Sludge: the new teal & orange. I don't watch enough TV (he lied) to spot the trend but I noticed how desaturated The Tourist was before I saw this article.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge

not specifically about colour palette, but inspired by this tweet:

I believe CGI is getting worse even as the tech advances. I don't know if it's laziness or cost cutting but so many shots look so much worse now than in the nineties. Look at these shots from DEATH ON THE NILE. It looks like it was shot at a local tv station's weather map set. pic.twitter.com/eDt10FieyM

— Greg Fantomas F. (@FantomasCinema) April 4, 2022

What is this thing where movies are (intentionally?) made to look like video game cut scenes? Is this just really cheap green-screening or is it that younger people who grew up watching video game cut-scenes actually like this look? (it's probably both I guess)

It occurred to me how long it's been since I had occasion to complain about teal and orange. Everything is only getting grey-er. I'm indulging a childlike, total layman's impression that there was like one guy responsible for the teal & orange boom who was promoted or moved on, and now there's a guy who likes everything murky and "realistic" in his place.

are you thinking of andor?

No, I'm thinking of every movie and show so desaturated you can't tell what's going on. My wife just tried watching House of the Dragon in the daytime and it was a hopeless cause.

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Now I'm thinking of this game where you had to put like littel walls up for somreason - I think hte board was teal and the walls orange ...

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Teal & orange's second coming

Now that the DALL-E has been successfully midjourneyfied, it is becoming apparent that instead of simulating all possible ›styles‹, AI is fostering the emergence of a distinct visual style, born out of popular aesthetic preferences dominating platforms like DeviantArt
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— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen) March 7, 2023

PPS: Thanks to @saintsoftness just learned that there already is a name for this color scheme, »Teal and Orange«, a popular look in color grading and achieved by »push[ing] blues or teals into the shadows and oranges or yellows into the highlights« https://t.co/GHgJ1SIcgb

— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen) March 7, 2023

Just saying: there exists a YouTube channel based around a conspiracy theory about how the Teal & Orange colour grading trend is actually due to a Mandela Effect-type mysterious phenomenon that turned all the world's media teal. pic.twitter.com/Dq1cemmgBz

— Devan Scott (@SadHillDevan) July 15, 2023

The Mandela Effect subreddit is on it

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Best use of teal and orange in a while:

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— Glen Oglaza (@glenoglaza1) July 22, 2024

The John Wick spinoff movie Ballerina may be the most teal & orange thing I've partially seen (movie is terrible and quit after 20min)

there’s prob 40 good min clustered across the runtime tbf

Teal & Orange through the years

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wow, a lot of stunning tableaus at that link

wow that site is sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21JsHLHnY8

Christoper Nolan's "The Odyssey"
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omg that he-man trailer looks horrendous but what did I expect