Desaturated hues, such as Elderberry and Hawthorne, are said to offer a new sense of strength, while the power of pink comes into its own.
Not exact matches
Some scenes opted for other
hues — the yellow street lamps, the red lighting of the brothel — but usually the flick went with a cold, somewhat
desaturated look.
Colors are
desaturated just a bit, which adds a coolness to the image, and yet most of the
hues that have been
desaturated were warm to start — browns, greens, golds, yellows.
While comparisons to The Aviator (the other megalomaniac - biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio) and Public Enemies (with which Eastwood's film shares a key showdown between Hoover and Senator McKellar from 1936) seem inevitable, J. Edgar was shot and color - corrected to more closely resemble Changeling, with its patina of
desaturated copper - green
hues and a meticulous eye for the specific materials of the period's rooms and attire.