What happend to the color in movies.

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Originally Posted by KubrickFan

We're talking about motion pictures here, visual cues are a pretty big part of that.
And you might think it's lazy to do that, but since people are complaining about it, it's still not picked up by most people.



What the cinematography in the Shining is trying to do is a very even looking lighting, so that every hallway and room looks the same to convey the sense of claustrophobia.
But talking about Kubrick, he used a very 'simple' color pallet on Eyes Wide Shut, in which the colors red, blue and yellow stand out. It's amazing what he makes of that, and I wouldn't call that lazy at all.

Eyes Wide Shut may have a simple color pallet, but it's not muted. I think the OP is referring to muted color pallets.