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If the content is good, who cares?
The people who search for a product, and get get results ranked based on irrelevant blogging.
You might think it's bad to take advantage of that, but refraining from doing so doesn't likely yield a fair product quality ranking, just some different unfair rating.
Our fitness function is broken.
At least they had the good grace to link to http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho... before effectively rewriting his original blogpost (and copying some of the images directly from it!)
Those priceonomics guys really care for their SEO. They are one of the few websites that writes totally unrelated articles to sell a product. I kind of feel used when I see them pop up.
In The Matrix, you could tell which "world" you're in by the general grade of color. When in the Matrix, everything had a greenish overtone, and when in the "real world" it was more blue. I really liked that use of color to be a part of the story telling process.
Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) made heavy use of this, too, to distinguish different locales and parts of the story. The Mexico/Benicio Del Toro partions were heavy on gold/orange, burnt, sepia, while the Washington/Michael Douglas parts were blue, cool.
I usually dislike any color grading over an entire movie. I recently re-watched Snatch and its heavy green cast felt so obnoxious and ugly.
[0] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/
[1] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/104685404787/transformer...
[2] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3432016573/traffic-2000
[3] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/8951346287/tron-legacy-2...
Look around, in light, orange and blue hues dominante our world. Sunlight, moonlight, street lights, sky, incandescents, the glow of lcds screens, etc - blue and orange everywhere. If you take notice, you will realize this is true.
As the article points out, in art, when wanting to create vibrancy and visual interest, one of the best tools in our arsenal is the use of complementary colors.
No other compliments are even close to occurring as frequently in the lighting of our natural world. This, I believe, is the true reason for its abundant use in cinema.
Of all the compliments, orange and blue is just the most natural.
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Just as a note, the green grading was made stronger in releases after the original DVD.
You can see a comparison here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtktg9hbC_g I do think they over-egged the pudding in the Blu-ray release. In some scenes Neo's skin tones look awful.
For example, most of the agent scenes in that comparison the left frame appears "greener" (but also more washed out in terms of brightness contrast) than the right.
The Summer Blockbuster Colour Grading Tutorial: https://vimeo.com/65617394
Ironically, teal and orange reached its peak with tranformers. With the rise of RED cameras (which have useless colour reproduction) we've gone the opposite way, low contrast, lots of grain. http://emertainmentmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/in... (warning, 5k image) http://applications.creativeengland.co.uk/assets/public/reda... note the softness on james corden's face, thats most likely someone painting out…
In The Matrix, you could tell which "world" you're in by the general grade of color. When in the Matrix, everything had a greenish overtone, and when in the "real world" it was more blue. I really liked that use of color to be a part of the story telling process.