Drive's color palette

quality. stunning film.

Seems weird that someone would capture all that now as if it's some sort of revelation. It was clearly obvious and very noticeable that they'd gone for certain stylistic themes throughout especially with the colours. Many of Kubrick's films do the same. Think I will eventually pick Drive up on Blu, I'd imagine it looks great.

repeat viewings haven't done too much to soften my opinion that this is a good but very overrated film in general, but you certainly can't fault the way it looks (and sounds).

that is some lovely color work tbh because i can't say it occurred to me when i watched it, but it looks blatantly obvious in those pictures. which means they probably got it spot on. or i'm an inattentive spazmaloid.

Yup. To the trained eye it seems obvious, but to the average person this sort of thing usually goes unnoticed. Which, to me, means it's a job well done.

i have to say i honestly didn't think to myself when watching it, "wow there's a lot of orange and blue in this film" and i'm usually ok at spotting that kind of stuff. it obviously had a look but i just attributed that to a whole load of brown

was probably too busy being sexually confused by ryan gosling, and generally confused by the lack of film beneath all the pretty pictures and noises.

My friend linked to this on facebook today. I can only assume its a coincidence because its from 2010 and doesn't reference Drive whatsoever.

theabyssgazes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html?m=1

ffs, i was just about to write how abs' link was going to ruin films for me from now on because i'll just be noticing how blue and orange they are, but it's already gone even further than that. all i could think about when i was showering this morning was the cliched color work in my bathroom

thanks abs, you've ruined my life.

the link to the nightmare on elm street trailer was so ridiculous in its teal and orangeness i actually pissed myself

Of course anyone can play guitar, but not everyone can be Hendrix.


Point is, Drive motherfucking rules with the blue/orange theme.

That analogy doesn't work because Hendrix was one of the pioneers in what he did, whereas with the blue and orange scheme Drive is just following a familiar pattern seen in so many films.

Don't get me wrong it's a fucking brilliant film for loads of reasons. Just this isn't one of them.

I think it is one of the reasons why it's so good, because it takes something that's being commonly done and takes it to an entirely new level. It probably wouldn't be the same film if it used a different aesthetic, color scheme or cinematography. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

I dunno, it seems initially this was presented as something pretty unique to the film, and now it's been shown its been done loads of times before it's just like "oh but Drive did it better"

I prefer the color palette of danish film "terribly happy". Pretty cool anyways because orange is the best color