Friday, June 19, 2015

They did it, Star Wars does now look like every other movie!

Here is a promotional screencap from MakingStarWars.com directly from the movie I guess.

No this is not due the low quality of the screenshot. The color choices one can read out that image clearly show a heavy, heavy trend towards the usual modern teal and orange look.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens:
(100% teal and orange)

A Screencap from Empire Strikes Back (Episode V)
 (image from GOUT, original unaltered trilogy)

This is fucking boring, because it's Star Wars for god's sake, not just any movie.
Show at least a bit of confidence. And don't blame it to nostalgia to have a new look. This is not a "new look", but a sickness that producers completely submissively bow down to.
See they can't even have the confidence to give the one, probably weightiest movie name/franchise of all the movies that are released in near future a unbiased natural look.
The human ego is pandered all over the image and this diminishes the full experience, because it's straight in the face, no looking away here, expect you experience it as a audio drama.

To further reinforce the truth about the look, let's look at other screencaps from the Teaser Trailer.
The first thought was that it's a exception. But looking at the above image, there is absolutely no question that the look is real.

 Stormtroopers illuminated by teal?
 (original)


How about the same with natural colors?
 (recolored)

 Why is the light teal? Not blue, white, red, green, yellow, turquoise, purple, violet, pink, white or anything else? No this light-bulb is exactly teal, one of the 2 modern movie colors, what a coincidence!


Stormtroopers preparing for war?

The same image with natural colors:
(now that we've seen the truth, I will also say that this computer generated image as a composition-- looks without depth or believable! The re-color helps a lot.)

Let's look at some more images from the Trailers.

R2D2
(wow, R2D2 is orange and the background teal)

Chrometrooper
(the walls sure look teal)

John Boyega as Stormtrooper
 (uuuh, the Armor is literally orange and the background is teal!)

X-Wings


 (teaaaaaaaal! I give up!!!)

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Didn't JJ Abrams wanting to tribute the original 3 classic Star Wars movies?
So why does it look like an ordinary modern movie, suffering the color-sickness?
Probably it won't even be JJ Abrams fault, but the studio simply forces that look to be super-imposed. Because they are really scared, little children, that even can't grow the confidence to make the one single movie called Star Wars to have a slightly different look (natural colors).
People would go watch the movie any way, it could have been the ONE movie that would guide the modern film-look back to reason.

If they even can't make Star Wars look natural and have a comprehensible color-palette.
Then all is lost!


How about suddenly making Mickey Mouse to be green?
Absolutely you can't do that. But whatever it's "modern" right? That's now what people do today. If you're exposed to those colors that heavily that you won't even notice them anymore. It has become a sickness, due to the over-exposition. It's the same as someone who is psychically sick but strongly believes that he is sane.

This is the truth that should concern anyone, not only Star Wars fans but Film fans generally. This is fucking Star Wars, understand that?
How about giving the people or fans a choice to watch the movie in an unaltered-natural look and a teal-and-orange look?
Of course not for the theatrical, but maybe they should consider giving that choice for home released. I don't think this is any strange at all.

2 comments:

  1. Here is proof that they are color grading the thing. The images above are from the trading cards that have not gone through the color grading process:
    http://i.imgur.com/toxCzsQ.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/VxBEQiA.jpg

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  2. Of all the things to be concerned about, you choose color theory? Really?

    If this is so concerning to you, perhaps you should buy a copy and b digitally alter it yourself. Looks like you're capable of that

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