Cinematographer Roger Deakins plays his tonality in a tight, slightly
desaturated range that visually supports the unforgiving aspect of the theme and the harsh realities of the settings.
Not exact matches
Outside of Genndy Tartakovsky's splashy animated sequence, the image is fashionably
desaturated and drained of colour from the red end of the spectrum especially (the crimson Screen Gems logo is here metallic blue), but within its mostly - teal palette there's an impressive dynamic
range.
Criterion's 4K digital restoration restores the
desaturated palette created by Vilmos Zsigmond for Altman, the somber, dipped - in - amber look of muted colors and candlelight, giving the film a richer texture (and this film has amazing textures) and a greater
range of detail and color.