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'''Please only include examples that do not belong on a more specific color trope.'''
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== Film - Animated ==
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== Film - Live Action ==
* In the 2002 film ''[[Hero (Film)|Hero]]'', many recurring colors appear. Black is used for mystery, red for deceit, blue for romance, green for memory, and white for truth.
* [[M Night Shyamalan]]'s films often use bright colors like red and yellow to emphasize the supernatural or otherwise scary or shocking elements in a scene. This is particularly noticeable in ''[[Unbreakable]]'' (which also uses the colors green and purple to isolate the characters played by [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] and [[Samuel L Jackson]], respectively).
* In the film ''Auto Focus'', orange is used to symbolize normalcy - Bob Crane's ordinary life has him drinking orange juice, he has a monologue about the meaning of the word "orange", and John Carpenter, who tempts Bob into his sex addiction, is color-blind and during a presentation, can't tell that the color is off on his projector and the on-screen oranges are purple.
* In ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' films, the color orange is a symbol of impending death. Usually, it comes in the form of orange fruit, but even orange clothing and orange decorations are used as foreshadowing towards death.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Ethan Frome]]'', the color gray is associated with Ethan's wife Zeena, a cold, apathetic woman, while the color red is associated with Mattie, a lively, younger woman that Ethan falls for.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', all the noble houses [[Colour -Coded for Your Convenience|throw their heraldic colours around]] every chance they get. The major players at the beginning of the series are the grim, dour, "[[Meaningful Name|stark]]" Starks whose colours are grey and white, and the rich, opulent Lannisters whose colours are red and gold (which contrast plays into the whole "ice and fire" motif as well).
* There's color symbolism throughout ''[[The Great Gatsby (Literature)|The Great Gatsby]]'', associating white with purity and yellow with corruption, such with the girls with yellow dresses at Gatsby's party. As for his eternal love Daisy, what kind of flower is white on the outside but yellow on the inside?
* The author Chuck Palahnuik uses a recurring motif of cornflower blue throughout his novels, for example, the colour of the tie and eyes of the narrator's boss in [[Fight Club]].
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