The yellow filter in hollywood movies

[Jhon Smith]

It’s called yellow filter, and it’s almost always used in movies that take place in India, Mexico, or Southeast Asia. Oversaturated yellow tones are supposed to depict warm, tropical, dry climates. But it makes the landscape in question look jaundiced and unhealthy, adding an almost dirty or grimy sheen to the scene. Yellow filter seems to intentionally make places the West has deemed dangerous or even primitive uglier than is necessary or even appropriate, especially when all these countries are filled with natural wonders that don’t make it to our screens quite as often as depictions of violence and poverty.

 

[pentamogged9000]

But Mexico and India are very dirty dangerous places

 

[Deleted member 30461]

India

True, never trifle with Desi bad boys in Bharat !!!

 

[Gonthar]

It used to be pretty common in the early 2000s, tons of films had all sorts of colored filters on them, but now they're less popular, more recently Extraction comes to mind - this one takes place in Bangladesh.

 

[Latinus]

True. I've read about that before, it makes sense when the movies takes in place in the Mexican desert, but not in urban areas.

Mexican telenovelas are more "realistic" in their colour paletes, but they aren't Americans, so they don't stereotype themselves in yellow filters.

 

[Jhon Smith]

But Mexico and India are very dirty dangerous places

Yeah i agree some places there are shithole but they aren’t a hot desert with no grass and green trees

 

[Jhon Smith]

True. I've read about that before, it makes sense when the movies takes in place in the Mexican desert, but not in urban areas.

Mexican telenovelas are more "realistic" in their colour paletes, but they aren't Americans, so they don't stereotype themselves in yellow filters.

Yeah hollywood uses the yellow filter on any country deemed as a shithole third world or is a danger to the US

 

[Jhon Smith]

It used to be pretty common in the early 2000s, tons of films had all sorts of colored filters on them, but now they're less popular, more recently Extraction comes to mind - this one takes place in Bangladesh.

Yeah it indicates danger poverty and crime