Subtle Visual Tricks Hollywood Uses To Mess With Your Brain

There’s an insane amount of visual cleverness that sails right over your head (and into your brain).
Subtle Visual Tricks Hollywood Uses To Mess With Your Brain

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Movies are an insanely visual medium, and they employ scores of people working behind the scenes to give their picture the biggest possible impact on your senses. And the amazing thing is, most people never consciously notice all the visual themes and hidden messages being beamed into their brains.

Until now.

In Game of Thrones season 7, Cersei, Dany, and Sansa are all wearing dark, monochrome outfits for a reason. The almost colorless styles reflect the br
CRACKED.COM Reality In The Matrix, the Wachowskis tinted 'real world' scenes blue and The Matrix scenes green. The green tint is inspired by the color
Subtle Visual Tricks Hollywood Uses To Mess With Your Brain
Moonlight emulates three different film stocks to show the evolution of the main character. When he's a child, it emulates Fujifilm stock, which bring

The Florida Project

The bright and vibrant COLOR SCHEME of THE FLORIDA PROJEGT was used to emulate the worldview of the children living in the seemingly DREAMLIKE Orlando
ANE IT FOLLOWS Second intentionally attempted to create a vague period of time by using costumes, sets, and props that felt as if they belonged in the
Sidney Lumet used subtle camera tricks in 12 Angry Men to keep the audience engaged. CRACKED.COM The film starts with wide angle shots, above eye leve
CRACKEDcO Tom Hooper uses a lot of wide-angle close-up shots of his characters, letting his characters' faces deliver the emotional impact. This is wh
The MILK DRINKING SCENE in GET OUT where ROSE is sipping a tall glass of WHITE MILK through a straw while eating the separated (COLORED) Froot Loops q
Subtle Visual Tricks Hollywood Uses To Mess With Your Brain
The Zodiac killer in David Fincher's 2007 film Z DIAC was played by 3 different actors based on actual descriptions CRAt from eye witness testimony. T

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski used an unflattering wide-angle lens on Mia Farrow, in order to give Rosemary's apartment a life of its own, as if it w
CRACKED COM IN MR.ROBOT CHARACTERS ARE OFTEN FRAMED AS IF BEING SUFFOCATED BY NEGATIVE SPACE IN ORDER TO DEPICT THEIR LONELINESS
NARNDA -T'HE CHRONICLES OF THE LION,E WITCH AND THE WARDROBE The White Witch's crown gradually melts throughout the film to show that she's losing her
Subtle Visual Tricks Hollywood Uses To Mess With Your Brain
Subtle Visual Tricks Hollywood Uses To Mess With Your Brain
In the casino scene in Black Panther, the colors of the outfits worn by T'challa, Okoye, and Nakia collectively form... The colors found on the Pan-Af
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