teal & orange.xls

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

http://i51.tinypic.com/514t9j.png

http://i.imgur.com/2K5rH.gif

i'd crush her blue

here's a promo shot for dances with wolves:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7HqO4e1M-Aw/TT3SWIGGzxI/AAAAAAAAG4k/uHF9dMIdIrY/s1600/dances-with-wolves.jpg

and here's a t&o.xls version they've been using recently:
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/05_02/1990/0099348/l_7580_0099348_1b71ed22.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/2liu42c.jpg

They're not even trying to hide it in Cedar Rapids. Everytime the commercial comes on, my brain starts doing a "teal & orange, teal & orange, teal & orange" mantra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VspqcwtJQ

goddamn that entire hotel is teal&orange.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/egypt020911/s_e39_0RTXXLZ5.jpg

amazing picture

that baby's popping

that baby's pooping

i think kenan's otm for the most part, it's like the '23' thing where once you hear about it you see it everywhere. brains love pattern recognition.

but still

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/mrsunshine.jpg

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/115/115442_1_f.jpg

http://risingtensions.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3095247717/1/tumblr_lfie0zs4FF1qayd70

what the

!

http://www.4dudes.com/2011/02/baby-toss-meme-collection.html

http://www.knowledgeforthirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/irn-bru.gif

I watched "Hot Tub Time Machine" last night, and yeah, ok, the teal-and-orange-ness of it was really extreme. Also, I didn't laugh that much and found it vaguely depressing, which is a much bigger problem than the color scheme.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/049I1jD86g066/610x.jpg

nope

I think that's aquamarine and red, yo.

Kind of an emerald, maybe. But teal, it ain't.

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/1C9DDC6E-5BE3-435C-84EF-00C405E8E77F/CSM003092.jpg

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 am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:01 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Dude, teal and orange is all over that fucking picture. You can argue this is whining or whatever, but don't minimize the teal and orange MANIA to which we are all slaves.

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.

― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 5:45 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark\

Except this "word" is a painfully overused one that was invented recently, and is going to date every fucking movie it touches.

ok maybe that metaphor got mixed along the way

and is going to date every fucking movie it touches.

I said that myself upthread. Can't deny that at all.

There are degrees of this, too. It seems like with romantic comedies that they like to make sure that there is a significant amount of orange and teal in a frame, and they just intensify the pre-existing tones. With thrillers, they drag all shadows and neutrals into cyan/teal (even if they weren't teal to begin with), and then drag highlights to orange. You can see this really clearly on the trailer for that new Liam Neeson movie with January Jones (can't remember the title). They didn't play quite as much with the orange, but all of the shadows and medium tones are teal in many of the scenes, even when it basically defies reason for there to be that much teal in any kind of realistic lighting in a setting where nothing in it is actually teal to begin with.

one thing that mitigates this problem is that almost all of the movies that are teal and orange fests are pretty terrible anyway.

Has anyone jokingly teal & orangized old classics? I'm asking before looking.

I Am Number Four promo shots are very t&o

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464540/mediaindex?page=2

Terminator 2 is pretty egregious in the Teal & Orange dept iirc.

Lady Antebellum music video:

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2483/ladyhotel1.png
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9811/ladyhotel2.png

http://i51.tinypic.com/514t9j.png

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/3d-mad.gifH8 TEAL AND ORANGE S0 MUCHhttp://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/3d-mad.gif

I think that's aquamarine and red, yo.

― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:50 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's the joke.

this thread is just full of high saturation pictures of things commonly found in films: white people, fire, the ground & water, sky and night.

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/spartacus-movie-image-2.jpg

http://media.ifccenter.com/images/films/the-shining_592x299.jpg

http://watchgodfather.com/pictures/1.jpg

etc. etc.

that dances with wolves thing is just the original image with saturation boosted.

you mean pictures are made more t&o by increasing the amount of t&o in the pictures? mind blown

well, no, saturation != hue.

colour film of dramatic events and human activity have always been mostly teal and orange, on average.

thread proves nothing except that confirmation bias works.

that dances with wolves thing is just the original image with saturation boosted.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7HqO4e1M-Aw/TT3SWIGGzxI/AAAAAAAAG4k/uHF9dMIdIrY/s1600/dances-with-wolves.jpghttp://i52.tinypic.com/2liu42c.jpg

ok, so it's not as simple as saturation but...

1) this is for the box art of a dvd, so who cares if it's been adjusted in some way.

2) where they needed to extend beyond the crop by adding sky they made it the colour of clear sky rather than an overcast day. seems like a pretty legitimate choice for a dvd box.

3) the sky is blue, not teal.

4) and the only orange is less orange than in the original. they've added some yellow.

this is an example of blue & yellow & saturation.xls. this is what i'm talking about confirmation bias.

There is also suddenly a wolf.

a legitimate choice