10 Things Wes Anderson Puts In EVERY Movie

3. Thoroughly Crafted Colour Palettes

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Best Example: The Use Of The Colour Yellow

If there’s one film director who knows how to expertly utilise the pastel aesthetic, it’s Wes Anderson. The filmmaker tends to stay away from the extremes of lightness and darkness with very relaxed visuals that are deliberately limited in colour to have a storybook feeling to them.

The greatest visual feast of all is The Grand Budapest Hotel. There isn’t a single second in that movie which you couldn’t frame up as a picture because the entirely of the film is overflowing with a gorgeous selection of colours, despite being very neutral and unvaried in the palette. Everything is not quite a primary colour - not blue but navy, not pink but rose, not green but emerald etc.

Additionally, Wes Anderson seem to gravitate to the colour yellow (or mustard) with many props, costumes, set designs, backdrops, vehicles and even fonts being a distinctive shade of the primary colour and becoming a focal point of the scene. A lot of his films seemingly have a monochrome of yellow to them which is why he was able to achieve the earthy textures of Fantastic Mr Fox and the exotic atmosphere of The Darjeeling Limited.

Watch the clip below and pick out all the ‘yellow-y’ parts you notice.

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