Why Hollywood Won't Stop Making Some Foreign Countries Look Awful | Mashable
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2021
- It's not just in your head. We talked to filmmakers, colorists, and pop culture experts about why Hollywood keeps using weird color filters to depict certain countries.
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Wait, you’re telling me when you cross the board to these country the world doesn’t go orange?!
Makes one long for greener pastures.
Sometimes in Mexico, yes
@@fernansierrano2742 your stupid when you cross the border Mexico is full of stores and houses
@@Salas83149 creo que no entiendio el sarcasmo
Even worse. The subtitles aren't showing up either.
As a Mexican, living in Mexico, one who has traveled around Mexico a lot. I always wondered why everytime they were in Mexico, it looked terrible. Like not only the filters, but it always seemed like they found some backwater town to film in. Like I have even traveled to a lot of towns, and they are never like what they show in Hollywood.
I then, found it hillarious when I heard that several Hollywood movies have been shot in Mexico, pretending to be in Europe. Of course in those movies, they show the good side of Mexico.
Grande
it must be weird to finally visit a country where everything isn't yellow
Same in India they seem to make everything smoky and yellowish sky with elephants around xD
Mainly because of the stories being told by those films or shows. The Wire is focused on the crime ridden streets of Baltimore, so naturally they're not going to show the beautiful landscapes of Colorado. Breaking Bad is focused on the grimey drug world that is influenced by Mexican cartels and so they show destitute regions in Mexico which are prey to cartel control due to their isolation. If there was some filmaker that wanted to show the beauty of Guadalajara or Campeche they would do so.
boo hoo cry me a rio
It’s when the media use filters in their news clips that worries me
Oh, that would actually be very interesting to see more about. It would be very interesting to see which news channels us what filtering in various circumstances. Maybe C-SPAN should be in an orange filter.
Show me an example of when the media uses filters in their news stories.
@@AllThingsFilm1 You've peaked my interest. I'd like to get a clear declaration from a variety of news media sources as to what kinds of processing was used. I'd like to see it in a manner similar to photography magazines, particularly the scientific ones, in which there's this small technical caption that declares the camera, the lens, the f-stop, and the shutter speed, as well as any special filters that were used. You ask for examples, and I want some too. But, it would be nice if the details are open for discussion, rather then leaving people to make blind speculation. And, it would be nice if this for the norm. I think Scientific photography probably does this best, but I'd like the same declarative standard in the news.
@@AllThingsFilm1 Most notably when Vice cover China/Japan/East Asian countries on technology stuff that they always use the "techno-dystopia" filter to make the city look depressing which feels a little xenophobic lmao
@@AllThingsFilm1 Look up 'BBC' and 'China filter' or 'underworld filter'. The BBC routinely desaturates its footage of China to make it look dull and grey (and will sometimes add a bit of haze just for extra effect).
I think it'd be neat if there was a Hollywood movie that took place in america, but applied that kind of colour grading. Use it to really screw with the viewer's subconscious that's been trained to see those colours as symbolizing squalor and violence.
CSI :p
@@gulbsoftsystems1009 the first time I watched CSI miami I seriously thought something was wrong with my tv lmao
Idk aren't there already movies like that? Enemy 2013 off the top of my head.
@@lDaniyarl enemy is great (shoutout to one of the only movies filmed AND set in toronto) but... something else....
There are. Ever seen a shitty action movie?
Funny thing is L.A.’s smog makes it look like a filtered city where they produce these movies. Go south to San Diego or Tijuana and you’ll find a much brighter blue sky
I love San Diego and Tijuana. When I was in SD all the racist white people there told me under no circumstances should I go to TJ. This was in 2010. I went to TJ. No problems. Had food and tequila.
@@titusmccarthy exactly, I was on holidays in the US and people were scared of going down to Tijuana like they were going to be killed
If your job is not related to drugs or journalism you should be fine in TJ.
@@mendistudio Well, Mexico is pretty bad, especially if you're not Mexican, and it's only gotten worse since you made your comment.
@@user-do5zk6jh1k not really Mexico is the most visited Latin Country
I can imagine Americans going batshit crazy if an Mexican movie producer uses that yellow filter when the scene is taking place in the US while it's all nice & clear in Mexico.
It's not that simple, people are often more focused/sympathized on stereotyped poor community, even though there're also bluish filters on cold place setting including particular European countries, it's more than just a filter for some purposes but a hard truth about fact that hotter climate countries are often also poorer/chaotic, so hot climate filters are subconsciously translated into dehumanizing stereotype or even racism.
Disclaimers: "I'm a liberal and of course I hated these stereotypes too"
No they wouldn’t
@@rickydinto You really hit it on the head. It's supposed to be a climate color
I was just thinking "what if they put the sh*thole filter over L.A?
@@jackaguirre8576 yellow filters like this have been used quite a few times for LA I believe. It’s kinda to show how it’s a hot place and kinda separate it from another place
Mexicans should start making movies where scenes in the US look incredibly purple. (Since purple is the complimentary color of yellow)
When I watched The Good Doctor episode supposedly portrayed and set in my country, Guatemala I was kind of flabbergasted noticing the over used of brown and yellow filters. That city they mentioned they were at is in the highlands. Rainy, green, cold where you can see the flocks of sheep grazing in the meadows and in the mountains. What they showed where cactuses, Mexican sombreros and people drinking Tequila. Then the locals spoke with a Mexican accent not Guatemalan. Just imagine saying that the film is set in Texas and people speaking with a New York accent. LOL
I bet the didn't even bother to do a deeper research of those whereabouts in my país.
I'm sorry, but frankly speaking, not many people would care for that to notice anyways. Not saying it's correct, but it happens to much larger countries as well.
@@srisaipatnaik2776 It looks like you missed the point of the video and also Joel's comment
@@srisaipatnaik2776 chad
“ay get da fuk outta heah, pawtnuh” 😂😂
Well half of all Americans would probably just think, Mexico same thing. Afterall, their the same people who think Earth is flat, Africa is a country and you can did down to China.
the reasoning for the filter in Breaking Bad is it hides age and wrinkles in flashbacks
If I ever became a director, one film I would make is a movie where a character travels across the world, and everything has a natural and realistic color palette. But as soon as the MC goes to America, it's this dull,grey, and ugly texture. Every color has to be washed out just to make fun of filmmakers who are still practicing this technique.
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The filmmaker use that technique to save money and i didn't like how to want to make US looks boring, Beacause all filmmakers that use this technique are not always American.
it seems actually accurate, well at least in known cities
Detroit
@@TylerWillson925This dude always skip his English classes.
Mexico looks so beautiful in real life
Until you get kidnapped.
True lol
@@teddnagurski5583 Here it is not common for you to be kidnapped or assaulted, or your phone stolen. Insecurity comes from cities near the United States border, due to drugs or drug trafficking....
Mexico is beautiful and colorful. Just like Coco movie .
@@bakerstudio6923 true my wife is from the state of Veracruz
I didn't notice how washed out some of those black people look with the filters until you showed it. Wow! It's like they erased them. Excellent video! Something to keep eyes open for.
I liked that you pointed out how " Extraction" used yellowish effect on Dhaka ( Bangladesh ) . Which wasn't even shot in Bangladesh
Yeah, it was shot in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, but only the impoverished and old parts of City were used
Somehow, there are going to be some creative types who learn from this--and give us whole new movie perspectives--by just taking us out of the stereotypes to give us story nuances that haven't been seen before. And, then they'll have to play in art houses because the Hollywood industry is going to think it can't sell. Oh, wait, that's already how it works.
What's strange is Extraction portrays Dhaka with yellow filter and hellish appearance while Mumbai is portrayed naturally and shown as if it is as developed as an EU nation. Both cities, and therefore, countries have equal standards of living with there being a large percentage of poor and a growing middle class population in big cities.
they dont potray india any better.
If you are talking about extraction, i think they for the school part only.
Btw .....how can anyone in Bangladesh say the standard of living is same
Come to Mumbai once u ll know
I mean, that was also Arizona in Breaking Bad and Texas in No Country for Old Men, etc.
Oh no, I live in a gentrified shithole now
Probably to signify they're not in the city anymore. Albuquerque in Breaking Bad was always portrayed really blue to comfort the audience, and every time they hit the road for the desert to cook meth and kill people everything was yellow. It subconsciously tells the audience where they are and to expect bad stuff to happen.
Jesus Christ, it's just color correction that corresponds to the climate of the scene or what's going on in the story at the moment
@@jamesrosewell9081 Yes, that’s my point by showing it isn’t just foreign countries like there's some agenda.
@@tylerdurden6882 They literally made Bangladesh orange. Bangladesh doesn't even have any deserts, they're humid and coastal, they have rivers and get plenty of monsoon rains and cold winters. It's ridiculous. You wouldn't see an orange filter on New York movies just because New Mexico is a desert. Hollywood's giving Americans a dumb idea of what the world looks like.
This is what it looks like to be outside in NYC rn
4:03 that’s so true. When I was up in northern norway, it was summertime and the midnight sun was just beginning to end, and the arctic landscape would be bathed in an orange light that made it look indistinguishable from the arizona desert. I was literally like “this is a sunset in california...”
Stop romanticizing this filter, it makes a really misconception about how the countries really are. It's kinda funny think some people still believe we dress sarapes y sombreros.
I dont get people like you who get mad at the sarapes and sombreros, I wish we still were using them because they make us unique. Everyone in th world is using western american clothing, if we could be different and use traditional clothes that look cool like the charro dress and sombreros, to me that is something positive.
@@ericktellez7632
Oh people still use them
But they are in very specific areas
The whole population of Mexico never used sombreros and serapes
Some Mexicans used other typical clothes and others used more European like clothing
It was also popularized on TV during the early 2000s with 24 and ALIAS because of their globe-trotty nature.
24 was a top pick by many racist/fascist/far-right Republikkkans. One of the creators went on to make the very racist, one-sided, xenophobic Homeland.
Good video. I guess a lot of Hollywood studios don't even care that these filtered "third-world-like" colored countries in the film are later being shown at the cinemas of those countries. It really does become stereotyping. It's okay if it's a comedy, but in other movie genres, I'm not so sure.
Mexicans dont care, they just laugh at it be because it's dangerous in reality those citys, the gringos are the ofended ones
As a Mexican it’s amazing to see color for the first time
The fact that this needs to be explained to general viewers shows how people believe so much watching hollywood films. A good content but makes me laugh that this content needs to exist.
I noticed this in the Black Adam movie, everything looks super yellow and run down.
1:06 That's funny that they're using this shot from the Wizard of Oz as an example of color grading, because it's not color grading used here. They just painted the interior of Dorothy's cabin brown to look like a black and white movie, the whole shot is in color
I came to Boston from Mexico City when I was 6 and my whole life american kids could not understand that I wasnt from a “Pueblo” or “village” … they could not believe I was from a mega city 10x the size of Boston lol movies make it seem like USA is the only country with cities
R u sure about that?
Taco
@@Literallyryangosling777 gay
@@fullm3tal90 desert
Let's not forget Hype William's 1998 film 'BELLY'
He turned Baltimore ice blue, and made all sorts of other incredibly creative choices.
Wow, this is probably why I think England is such a dreary-looking country. Because anytime I see it on film, it looks dead. Not realizing that it's the way they captured the country that has shaped my imagination.
Idk I went there and it did feel dead it’s so overcast and dreary all the time ai felt like there was no real spice in weather, that being said my country is either desert arid or rainy so that’s why it may have been so dramatic to me
The Yellow-Orange filters is the reason why I could not watch the Netflix movie Extraction.
It was over the top I agree
Well thats actually pretty stupid reason to not watch it
@@thatguy7155 It's not actually. Go ahead and watch you favorite movies but put on a yellow tint on all of them. And come back to me then and say the same thing.
@@thatguy7155
I would agree if there was no nuances but those are present there:
1)Warm colours are naturally harder to continuosly look at.
Blue light is just easier on eyes,and the blue color is more suitable for comfort.
Only place where I see people do the opposite are the "night modes" but newer studies are showing how using warm colours in night modes is a dumb idea.
2)"Yellow coloured skin" is actually a fairly common remark used by racists people.
The shithole colour grading literally plays into it by making the people living in other countries look yellow.
@@LeclipsChannelAK @Aitish Kumar well let me tell you that in the movie it's not like were looking at a yellow windows but it's just a low transparent yellow filter so it's pretty easy to look at
And also if you hate this movie for the supposed racism then it's still a stupid reason not to watch it cause the story itself had nothing to do with racism
Recently just notice news agency also use yellow filter for dramaticing, especially for middle east reporting
I would give Breaking Bad a pass since most scenes at Don Eladio's pool are flashbacks
The scene with Don Eladio was a flashback but when there were scenes with the Salamanca bros, it was also yellow (ish). I wouldn't go as far as calling it racist but a generic look.
At least Modern Warfare 2022 don't use that shitty filter in the Las Almas scenes
you know you’ve screwed up when a call of duty game is more “progressive.”
And this still happening in 2023 on Last of Us series when depict Indonesia 🙂
Hollywood also portrays reckless handling of firearms as some kind of macho right-of-passage--with virtually no sense of what real gun safety practices look like. So, what does that say about our culture and World culture. I'm seriously ready to see a video on this.
It says nothing because movies aren't real! People who believe anything in movies, unless they were based on real life events, are real need a reality check. Everyone knows the way they use firearms in movies are not how it's done in real life and movies that are not actually real don't need to teach you about firearm safety. That's the job of your parents and your school not the movie making industry.
Hollywood directors: Ehhh Messi
This title is a classic example of where the premise is true, but the conclusion that is made is does not follow.
Agreed
Agreed
Yup, everything is “racist” now a days
@@danebeee1 Wanna bet you're white?
@@titusmccarthy Don't be racist and assume everyone that has this opinion is white smh.
Yellow tint in breaking bad is because yellow represents meth in the show so since the only time they go to Mexico it's cartel related so its yellow
I’m originally Greek, and all movies about ancient Greece are showing Greece as a barren place with no trees. While some islands look like that (which is where Americans go for vacations and so are familiar with them), most of the myths take place in mainland Greece, that HAS trees and it’s a quite green place. Also, the light in the Mediterranean is different than anywhere else (films actually shot there look different due to the light, but most films about Greece are not filmed anywhere near Greece).
Having said all that just as observation, I don’t really care. This is yet one more reason for people to be worked up about nothing. Others don’t have power over me (so I don’t feel offended by stereotyping personally). They’re free to understand the world anyway they like, be it accurate or not.
Literally looks the same for both movies vs irl
From a country that loves the color and is one of its characteristics even in the art, it's so stupid use a brown/sepia filter for Mexico ! And who says that all Mexico is warm all the year?
They do that with India also a country/culture like Mexico known for vibrant colors but Hollywood makes it look drab and dusty. It figures a country like the US with beige or gray cookie cutter like box buildings doing this.
POV when you come of twitter
Fascinsting, thank you!!
Thank you!
Audio mixing on this is ooof...
Hollywood movies does the same thing with my country too, also they start playing some stupid traditional Indian music which nobody here listens to.
Wow you doesn't understand filmmaking.
But....you didn't actually say why they won't stop....
Cause they're americans, they do whatever they want
This is an excellent video!
I noticed similar kind of filter for Russia. Before i used see those in memes and laugh at it. But when i saw The Americans starring Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell where they have portrayed all the scenes set in the 80s Soviet Union with blue filter that's where i noticed how Americans stereotype other countries with color.
They also use that filter for certain desert scenes that take place in the US
I agree how the color filters used to depict those countries are BS, but in the end the freedom of the artist to make the art (movies in this case) as how he pleases should always be maintained
I hate it. I can't stand watching movies with that yellow tint to it.
0:48 The girl on the bottom right must be in Mexico.
I hate it because nowadays TV technology, i hope to watch beautiful color but some movie not have that idea.
I won't watch shows with the yellow tint. I hate it.
I was just watching Netflix cowboy bebop buy stopped because of the shitty orange of tj
Once a trope has been identified, it's played out and an opportunity innovators to break away from it arises. I refuse the watch Ozark not only because of over the top story line and a venal interpersonal dynamic among the characters, but I just can't stand that blue tint.
New York City looks like Mexico now.
CSI Miami
Oh my Gawshhh thanks for giving it a name because every time I watch peaky blinders the colour grading makes it extra depressing
While true the uk actually is pretty much always overcast and depressing weatherwise (coming from someone from a country that is mostly desert tbf)
I thought you get the Yellow eye glasses at Mexican Airport, lol
Meanwhile, the US in the matrix: blue
Great video 😍
As a Mexican I find this funnier than offensive, specially when they hire American actors to play native speakers and their accent is good enough to pass as Mexican but their grammar and vocabulary is all weird. Also everybody seems to be a hard working hot girl and their poor family or a narco (bonus points if they are in full cholo gear). I am starting to think it's some kind of a fetish (not judging).
I think this is restricted to action movies
3:38 it's meant to be Zurich, Switzerland, not Soviet Union
So what about series' NCIS.los
Rumour has it when flying into Mexico you can see the orange haze fill the plane as you cross the border.
What a gorgeous and well-versed-on-LUTs young lady.
0:38 actually it's called yellow filter
Because shooting in a isolated dessert area are much cheaper than shooting inside a city.
Thanks to sens8 for making mexico city look like mexico city
Contemporary movies look like that because filmakers are lazy and just plaster the trendy cliches over anything they came up with. The stereotype is the least resistance path from producer to audience.
Ah yes writing a script and managing the set location and actor to play and etc are lazy.
It's not only the colors, but the locations
Sometimes it's appropriate to set the story in a shitty location because it makes sense, but it never feels as if it were a rarity and not common occurrence in that country
Maybe it's because they present it as "third world country" and not "specific area, country" like they do in stories set in USA
They color grade states and cities in the United States. What makes you think they won’t color grade other countries?
Wait is that Beard Shapiro
Deal with it. Hollywood USA makes films for a paying client. Dont like it, dont buy the ticket or pay or the streaming service
90 comments and 15K views...somethings fishy...a bunch of woke comments missing
for India its even worse 😪
Wait, mexico is not orange ??
Mexico is yellow in movies
Where is Kazakhstan?
Lo más gracioso es que un mexicano hizo la TV a color.
Yes. This was done to Joe Rogan when he had the flu. CNN (leftists) color graded his video. Thanks.
Everybody’s talking about Mexico and Europe which is okay, but have you watched any Hollywood movie with an African scene in it?
Never
Yeah it would be a desert and the people would appear half naked
Its so America can look like their the safest and most free country on earth. Patriotism at its finest
Guys it’s a colour. It’s not offensive
"thoughtlessly" sure kid
Plot twist: Actually Indian people have a pale white skin irl.
You are blacker than the coal. Your upper middle class pays good money to whiten their skin to look like us lol
When you travel to Philadelphia or California you will be amazed because is the face of USA that Hollywood don't wants to show
As an Arab, I’m happy that this video exists
Sounds like not a big a deal as they are making it. It's just a movie ffs.
thats awful they should be sued
Maybe they should portrait it better ...
It is offensive. Its derogatory meaning portraying negatively. Like in the old days portraying others as stupid or poor. That was acceptable to Americans but isnt right
Very cool Kanye
I feel kinda ashamed for not even realizing this coming from a person who has not been to Mexico for many years 🇲🇽
Cancun was amazing when I was there....
You need to visit Jalisco and Morelia.
This video is so cringey. Of ALL the problems that are occurring in the world, you decide to complain about some pretentious filming technique and blame racial problems on that.
This is a problem too... why not talk about it?
Great clips! Sent this to all my friends who do photo and video color grading 👍🏽
Making other countries look horrible is the most American thing you can do.
Most movies aren't meant to be realistic. Look at the guns. A Glock 17 with the stock Magazine doesn't have 50 rounds.
Why are people whining so much? lol
Even when they film London UK they still film people in bowler hats and the cars are all from the 80s. Disgrace
not in shaun of the dead (2004).