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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
* 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]]'' 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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