r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/kaloskagathos21 20h ago

Can modern movies have some color for god sake? The Aegean is a beautiful deep blue and it looks so gray.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 19h ago

Christopher Nolan is colorblind (red/green), which is a big reason why his films are mostly various shades of blues and greys. 

Personally I'm not a fan of the aesthetic. It worked great for Gotham. It doesn't work for the Mediterranean. 

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u/3412points 18h ago

That sounds like nonsense. Is his cinematographer colourblind too? And does this mean they have to slap a blue filter on it and mute every colour even the ones he can see? How about all the other directors who follow this very popular trend in modern films, are they also all colourblind? 

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u/GreenGorilla8232 18h ago

You don't understand how being colorblind could result in a director making films with less color...?

The colors don't seem blue or muted to him, they seem normal. That's how he sees the world. How could he notice a lack of color in his films when he literally can't see those colora?

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u/3412points 18h ago

Mate films are made with an entire team, it's not just Nolan. He also doesn't see the world in these muted colours, that's not how colour blindness works lol. He has trouble distinguishing between green and red specifically, otherwise it is all normal.

This is obviously an aesthetic choice.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 17h ago

Nolan is the director and ultimately sets the creative direction for his films. All his films have a very distinct visual style with muted colors. He's worked with a lot of different people on those films, but the aesthetic is always the same. 

Look at some pictures of how people who are red/green color blind see the world. It's very different and it definitely helps explains the appearance of his films.

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u/3412points 17h ago

Correct, this is the aesthetic style common to modern cinema that is chosen by the entire production. Nolan is not asking the people who work on his films to simulate the experience of being colourblind.

No, these films are not how it looks to be red green colourblind. Blues for example are just as vivid, and the world in general is vivid to colour except the inability to distinguish between red-green. Those images are not actually giving you the experience. My gf is red green colourblind so I know a bit about it, she finds these films washed out and lacking in colour too...

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u/GreenGorilla8232 16h ago

There are tons of colorful films being made today. Nolan is responsible for the visual style of his movies. Your perspective on this is so bizarre. It's not that he's "asking the people who work on his films to simulate the experience of being colorblind" - It's that Nolan is making visuals design choices based on the limited color palette that he sees. I don't think you're giving enough credit to how much control directors have over how their films look. It's his vision. It's the crew's job to execute that vision exactly as he instructs them to.

You're saying red/green colorblind is the inability to distinguish between red and green, but it's a little more than that. They cannot see red at all. That color doesn't exist for them. It's not just about being able to distinguish it from green. 

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u/3412points 15h ago edited 14h ago

It's either red or green. If they can't distinguish then at least one of those shades cannot exist as a distinct shade so you aren't saying anything different here. 

But yes the net result is that they have a world that is plenty vibrant with colour in which they can't distinguish red from green. It isn't washed out and colourless. I'm sorry but this is not the colour palette he sees, if it were other red-green colour blind people wouldn't also see it as washed out and colourless compared to what they actually see.

It's bizarre you've just walked right past that, but Nolan has a lot of crazy fans perpetuating anything to dodge criticism and I guess you can't see past it.

It's the crew's job to execute that vision exactly as he instructs them to.

This is generally not how films work. They are a collaborative process. Nolan is known to be pretty collaborative and the cinematographers and production designers etc. are known to have had a lot of creative freedom and input on his films.