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== Anime & Manga ==
* In the Toei first series anime of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', the palette seems to be made up entirely of super-saturated neons that do not go together.
* The infamously confusing anime ''Bounty Dog'' takes place on the moon, and everything is colored a shade of sickening yellow.
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* The first film of ''[[The Twilight Saga]]'': Because Forks is a dreary, rainy town, the director decided to desaturate the colors to bring this across. The point is that the colors are also very desaturated when Bella is in another place, such as California, meaning that (a) the director's explanation [[Fridge Logic|does not make sense]] and (b) the whole movie looks bland and boring.
** Done again in the sequel, where everything seems washed with gold.
* Among the many, many reasons that the ''[[Battlefield Earth (
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', the scenes in the normal world are tinted a cold blue; the scenes set in the Matrix itself are tinted a digital green, like an old monochrome computer screen. In fact, the green tint becomes more and more prominent as Smith takes over the Matrix. {{spoiler|The final scene, after Smith is defeated and the Matrix freed, [[Rule of Symbolism|is completely devoid of this tint]]}}.
* [[Spy Game]] uses different filters for each flashback segment. Vietnam is orange as hell, Berlin is kind of a cool blue, and Beirut is sort of a sandy yellow. This serves to easily delineate between the flashbacks and the central hub of the story.
* ''[[Traffic]]'' has different filters for different locales. In particular, Mexico was always awash in orange-yellow. The US had a blue filter.
* [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' plays with this a lot; they messed with the hue and saturation until everything was an intensely colorful brown, imitating the look of old-timey photos. [[Ur Example|Also, the first feature film to be entirely digital color corrected]].
** This was also done because dying yellow crops look better in a Depression-era film, whereas most of the greenery was verdant as Hawaii during filming.
* ''[[Vicky Cristina Barcelona]]'' is very golden-yellowy looking.
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* Used far too much in the made-for-TV film ''Jason and the Golden Fleece'', with desaturated colours and hard light.
* ''[[Avalon]]'' has a ''very'' amber filter, to the point of monochrome {{spoiler|until the end, when it's removed to suggest that the main character is now in "the real world."}}
* The Moroder version of [[
* The original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy has a fairly consistent dark blue wash (very noticeable in scenes set on mostly-grey spaceships) in the DVD version that wasn't in any earlier version (compare the bonus disc, which has the original theatrical version without the blue wash).
* In the film adaptation of ''[[South Pacific]]'', everything appears heavily yellow because the film was filtered through a yellow sheet of cellophane in postproduction. This was overkill of what they wanted, which was to make the film "more yellow", and they hadn't actually intended it to ''be all'' yellow. They released it anyway.
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** [[Steven Spielberg]] and Kaminski have done this at least twice now - ''[[Minority Report]]'' has an icy hue to it, accomplished in the [[wikipedia:Bleach bypass|film processing stages]] of post-production.
* ''[[Clerks II]]'', except for the [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|dance scene]].
** The film was originally intended to shot in black and white like the first one but producer Harvey Weinstein wanted the film open wide so director [[
* ''I Am Sam'' is very blue, both in color and in mood.
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' films, the first installment is full of vivid colours, with plenty of warm reds and gold. Each of the films thereafter gets more and more desaturated until ''[[Deathly Hallows]]'' is practically in B&W.
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* On ''[[Skins]]'', scenes that take place outdoors have very saturated colours. This is often seen as very good cinematography.
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'' did this. The entire show was made to look older (took place in the 1970s) by washing everything with yellow during the coma/ whatchamacallit (and that lasted the entire show). The 2006 scenes were, in comparison, almost drained.
* ''[[
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'': scenes on lifeless planets tend to be very washed out. But the scenes on Kobol had implausibly vivid green foliage.
* ''[[Charlie Jade]]'' had a different colour wash depending on which dimension you were currently watching. Alpha was green, Beta was Blue and Gamma was red.
* ''[[Jekyll]]'' plays with this to wonderful effect. When Tom Jackman is awake, colors are subdued by means of a subtle blue filter, while vivid colors mark Hyde being awake.
* Similar to ''[[Traffic]]'' above, from season 2 onwards [[Breaking Bad]] would frequently visit orange-yellow-tint Mexico.
* In ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', earlier episodes had an almost orange look to them, fading out to a very slight greenish tint for the rest of the series.
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* ''[[Singularity]]'' is overly fond of [[Orange-Blue Contrast|lighting everything with the color orange. Anything that isn't orange tends to be blue.]]
* ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', like ''Singularity'', is fond of a yellowish-brown color for absolutely everything with occasional blue-lit areas (usually in the Undercity).
* ''[[Prototype (
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** ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'''s Shadow Moses and a good deal of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'' are green-blue.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', the Twilight Realm was initially designed as [[Deliberately Monochrome|grayscale]] with some splahes of color. However, the design later changed to an incredibly hyper-saturated color scheme, with gold, brown, and magenta being the most prominent colors. Most have praised the new design, citing it as more original and evocative of a creepy, alien twilight world.
** Used to a lesser extent with normal-Hyrule, which had a faint yellowish tint to most things.
* [[World of Warcraft]] uses different color grading in different areas. The difference is sometimes very noticeable--for instance, Ghostlands looks very different when you're looking in from Zul'Aman than when you're inside and the darker color grade takes hold. It's sometimes so strong (particular with red colored areas like Durotar) that it takes a while for eyes to readjust to another color when changing zones.
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