"In film, rules are meant to be broken. Color theory is one of the most well-known guides in all of cinema. The general premise that certain colors matched with a specific brightness, saturation, and value will elicit certain emotional reactions from the audience has been followed by many and worked very well. But for more or less as long as color has made its way to the silver screen, directors, production designers, cinematographers, and other minds have found inventive ways to subvert the rules of color theory.
The results can be varied. Subverting preconceived notions of colors can give the film a strong sense of irony, reveal a bastardized aspect of the story's world, or offer a subtext that is not visible in the characters' purview. No matter the case, the following 10 films are all examples of how subverting color theory can give additional intricacies to already developed tales."
