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So you just turn up the shadows to the teal end, the highlights to the orange.
Unlike other pairs of complementary colors, fiery orange and cool blue are strongly associated with opposing
More [http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html here], [http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html here] and [http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-part-2.html here]. Games have (relatively) recently also picked up on this trend, and you can find some of the worst offenders on [http://orangeandtealgames.tumblr.com this Tumblr].
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* ''[[The Doors]]'' by [[Oliver Stone]] uses this a lot, especially in the drug use scenes.
* ''[[Easy A]]''.
* The Indian film ''[[Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi]]'' is strong with
* ''[[Drive (film)|Drive]]''. In the opening sequence, the only colours (with the exception of the pink title) are the blue and orange coming from the lighting in Los Angeles at night.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]''
* The song and dance number in ''[[Om Shanti Om]]'' called Dard E Disco has lovely orange blue contrast with gold tones for about 3/4 of the song.
* ''[[Minority Report]]''
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== New Media ==
* In its four-color
** Also one of the display palettes for the [[Apple II]], though not as commonly used as black, white, green and purple/magenta.
* [[Google]] always had blue links, now it's using quite a bit of orange as well.
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* The video game adaptations of ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]]'' use practically only blue and orange shades throughout the game.
* Every boxart for the classic ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series features this.
* ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption'' used this for box art and other artwork, but not quite as much for the game
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' exaggerates it for the [[Dark World|Silent Realm]] in order to emphasize [[Eldritch Location|how alien the alternate dimension is]]. However, everything turns red whenever Link is spotted.
* The new ''[[Mortal Kombat 9|Mortal Kombat]]'' has this on the cover and, to a lesser extent, on the main menu background; both achieve this by putting Scorpion and Sub-Zero opposite each other.
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