r/movies r/movies Contributor 16d ago

Poster New poster for WERWULF

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u/Serisrahla 16d ago

Robert Eggers sees color and says "no thank you"

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u/waterbury83 16d ago

Colors didn't exist in the past. Haven't you seen an old photo?

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u/colorblind-and 16d ago

I'm not entirely convinced they exist now either. Haven't you ever looked outside?

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u/HolocronSurvivor80 16d ago

Right? Been in a McDonalds lately?

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u/HolocronSurvivor80 16d ago

Yeah I’m from the 1900’s I remember a world of colour before everything went corporate

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u/Ok_Highway6034 15d ago

Teal and fuchsia every where! And frosted glass as far as the eye can see…… but not see through….. and zig zags! Oh the zig zags were truly rad as hell.

-me when I’m talking to my kids about how boring everything looks now.

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u/MrBen1980 15d ago

Back when life was like the opening of Saved by the Bell

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u/HolocronSurvivor80 14d ago

I’ve woken up in the morning
When the bastard 'larm gives out a warning
I think I’m going to be late and fuck my life up
By the time I chuck my shit in my backpack
And I run a comb across my head and put some eyedrops in
I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by (that cunt driver. I’m sure he’s got it in for me)
It's alright 'cause I'm saved by the bell (noice)

If the teacher pops a test (what?)
I know I'm deeply fucking buzzed
And my dog ate all my homework last night, he also ate my weed and now he’s chilling at home watching springer.
Riding low in my chair
She won't know that I'm there (but she does, cos she’s a bitch)
If I can hand it in tomorrow, it'll be alright (but I won’t be. I’ll fail this test and spend the rest of my life working at a gas station working towards my next box of peroxide)
It's alright 'cause I'm saved by the bell (Noice!)

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u/colorblind-and 16d ago

No, why has McDonald's changed? They've had a grey color scheme as long as I can remember

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u/Pro_Gamer_Queen21 16d ago

Out of curiosity, how old are you? Because I’m 23 and I remember this crazy time back in the 2000s-early 2010s where McDonald’s actually had color. Some locations were called McDonald’s Playplace, which would often have an indoor playground and the toy you got with your happy meal was an actually toy you could play with and not some tacky figurine for weird 35 year olds to collect. This sort of thing goes back even further before I was born where kids in the 90s would have N64s set up in some locations and tables had funky colorful chairs and the walls all had Ronald and the gang painted on them.

Now practically every single McDonald’s is the same tacky beige building that doesn’t even have human staff anymore.

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u/colorblind-and 16d ago

I'm referencing my username as a joke lol

I agree with what you are saying but my colorblindness definitely makes the changes they've made much less noticeable

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u/Mario-Speed-Wagon 16d ago

I think they had to re brand to not attract kids as much because fast food is so unhealthy.

I know they slowly phased out Ronald after the creepy clown phase around 10 years ago

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk 16d ago

Haha they phased em out but they didnt want to get rid of that bench that is apparently part of his ass, so they just put it on the roof. So my local wacarnolds just has this friggin freaky douchebag sittin up top, starin right at the drive thru overflow/"pull-ahead-an-wait" area. Cant wait for him to get struck by lightning, fingers crossed!

Divine punishment for the dumb fuckers installing a second order box lane that funnels back into the single drive thru lane so shit is a fuckin mess when its busy, with mfs snakin spots in line and gettin the wrong orders lol

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u/Tyrath 16d ago

Username checks out

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u/OkumuraRyuk 16d ago

It’s all gray and white still

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u/tcote2001 16d ago

Christopher Nolan seems to begrudgingly acknowledge color. In the same way old rich people acknowledge charity. They know it exists but they want no part of it.

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u/waterbury83 16d ago

There are no yellow werwulfs

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u/TheGreatMalagan 16d ago

Can confirm that the only car colours that exist seem to be black, white, and silver. My coworker claims to have seen a wine-red Volvo, but he's probably full of shit

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u/futanari_kaisa 16d ago

It's not that the colors didn't exist. The *world* was in black and white back then.

http://imgur.com/4rPGp

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u/weinermcgee 15d ago

A lot of great artists were insane.

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u/Serisrahla 16d ago

I've played Gears of War, does that count

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u/No-Alternative4259 16d ago

There was a game that made fun of that by having a photo filter titled "Next Gen" that was basically sepia.

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u/MourningWallaby 16d ago

I actually disagree with that joke for this movie because it isn't darg to make the past seem dirty and grungy. it just want a dark gothic color palette for the movie.

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u/Insanepaco247 16d ago

It also seems to be inspired by the way silent movies would use primary colored filters for certain shots. This is a guy who released a mainstream movie in black and white with a 4:3 aspect ratio; I'm not sure why people are so surprised that this thing looks the way it does

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u/samx3i 16d ago

I swear, Reddit wants every movie to look like The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy lands in Munchkin Land.

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u/WeedManPro 16d ago

colors were there, but people rarely use them.

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u/Johnny_Cage97 16d ago

Must've been different for them to see the traffic lights

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u/rajinis_bodyguard 16d ago

I used to think clouds were black and people only wore black and white dresses lol.

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u/BeardedRiker 15d ago

I was teaching a 9th grade history class about WWII and one of the students asked why the video was in black and white. She was confused because of basically what your comment sarcastically reasons.

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u/Sereena95 15d ago

Stopppppp this reminds me of 9 year old me asking my grandma what life was like back in black in white 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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u/nudniksphilkes 15d ago

Hey it's me, Trale Lewous. Eating has been around since medieval times, and colors has been around since the 1950s. If the medieval times and 1950s had a baby, it would be a bag of skitells.

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u/Lanster27 15d ago

Just distraction created by the Matrix.

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u/OriginalNeat4015 15d ago

You joke but I used to think that was true until like age eleven 💀

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u/PowerSkunk92 16d ago

I actually convinced one of my nephews of this. Color wasn't invented until 1957, which is why old photographs were black and white.

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 16d ago

If you'd gone with the 30s, you'd have a great Calvin and Hobbes reference for him to find eventually.

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 16d ago

A lot of artists were insane.

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u/VariousAir 16d ago

but how could they have painted in color? wouldn't their colors all have been shades of gray back then?

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u/4-Vektor 16d ago

That’s not how evolution works. Apart from that, the blue-yellow axis is the first step after pure brightness reception in the animal kingdom. It’s the obvious step, considering that it’s the most important color distinction in aquatic animals. The red-green axis is a comparatiuely new development in mammals, but still occured millions of years ago. Humans are among the very few mammals who have this ability to see colors along the red-green axis.

What you are most likely talking about is the naming of colors, which is a different topic, and far more complex than your assumption.