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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"I used to like the color blue. Now it's dead to me. Cram it, Smurfs. Piss off, ocean. Screw you, sky."''
|'''[[Riff Trax]]''' on ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]''}}
A subtrope of [[Mood Lighting]] common in [[Science Fiction]] and [[Police Procedural|Forensics]] shows. Shots are suffused with vaguely blue lighting. This is usually complemented by stark, overly bright desk lamps. Occasionally this infects outdoor scenes, making sunny days look more overcast; this should not be confused with the dark blue camera filter used in shooting "[[Hollywood Night|day for night]]".
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Nowadays, the rise of [[Orange-Blue Contrast]] makes this nearly ubiquitous in mainstream movies and television.
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== Advertising ==
* For whatever reason, it's being used in recent Viagra commercials like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbzSlBjmGs this one] (maybe because the pill itself is blue?). The effect is weird because that particular commercial takes place ''in the desert.''
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== Film ==
* Used to great effect in ''[[Little Buddha]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130912192326/http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6972 contrasting the cool blue Seattle shots with the warm reds of Tibet].
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' films, the battles at Helm's Deep and Osgiliath are shown in a blue tint.
* The ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' series makes consistent use of trope, blended with [[Hollywood Darkness]]. Individual scenes which ''aren't'' primarily blue are a rarity. Even the DVD covers invoke this.
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** The lighting used on the shows seems to extend to the DVD packaging with CSI being in green boxes, ''[[CSI: NY]]'' being in blue boxes and ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' being in—you guessed it—orange boxes.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and its spinoff ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has this in spades, the Asgard and Human spaceships especially. The Ancients get into it as well.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Parodied on ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''.
{{quote|"Let's try the blue light" *yellow light comes on* "No, the blue that's not yellow."}}
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== Real Life ==
* L.E.D lights
** This is because most “white” LEDs are made by starting with blue emitters, then adding a layer of fluorescent compounds (“phosphors”, although not all such compounds actually contain the element phosphorus) to convert some of the blue light to the longer wavelengths. Low-grade LEDs may use less phosphors than desirable, and phosphors can also degrade causing the light to gradually turn bluer with age.
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