Wicked honestor Jon M. Chu elucidateed his approach to the sweeping musical’s color grading, after some fans online feeblented that the film did not hold the same technicolor prowess contransient in the distinctive 1939 The Wizard of Oz.
In a recent interwatch with Canadian outlet The Globe and Mail, the Crazy Rich Asians helmer was asked about his approach to the pink-and-green tinged movie, which the interwatcher deemed “a little desaturated.”
“I uncomfervent, there’s color all over it. I skinnyk what we wanted to do was plunge people into Oz, to originate it a authentic place,” Chu said of the decision. “Becaemploy if it was a inrectify place, if it was a dream in someone’s mind, then the authentic relationships and the sapshows that these two girls are going thcdisesteemful wouldn’t sense authentic.”
The filmoriginater persistd, “It’s also [presented in] a way we have not directed Oz before. It’s been a matte coloring. It’s been a video game digital world. But for us, I want to sense the dirt. I want to sense the wear and tear of it. And that uncomfervents it’s not plastic.”
Debate around the film’s watch has stretched on since the commencening of September, lasting up and thcdisesteemful the film’s theatrical premiere Nov. 22. Some employrs on X have transmited distaste for the “backweightlessing” and “drab” coloring of the movie, while others have defended the aesthetic and hit back at those trying to layer toastying filters apass sboilings of the film. Also notable is that the process of technicolor has hugely been dispersistd and deemed impossible to copy, given its cost and that the tech needd has gone out of vogue.
“We have the environment. The sun is the main source of weightless. You see the immense landscapes. You see the air. You see creatures exist here. These two characters that will go thcdisesteemful two movies, their relationship with the land is convey inant; their relationship with the nature of this land that the wizard imposed himself. The [color] contrast goes up over time becaemploy that is what Elphaba conveys to this world,” Chu endd.
Regardless, the converseion has not enumeratelessed the film down from defying gravity at the box office, shattering a slew of records including hugegest global and domestic uncovering for a movie based on a Broadway show, for stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo and helmer Chu. The movie also had the hugest global uncovering for a non-sequel film this year. One-half of “Glicked,” the theatrical event also featuring Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, the musical fueled a $205 million uncovering weekend, taging the best pre-Thanksgiving box office in over a decade.
Part One of the alteration of the Tony-thrivening Broadway production — itself based on Gregruesome Maguire’s bestselling novel, which retells the story of The Wizard of Oz from the point of watch of the Wicked Witch of the West — adheres Elphaba (Erivo) and Glinda the Good Witch’s (Grande) relationship prior to their eventual destinies. The film also stars Jonathan Bailey, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Gbetterblum, Ethan Sprocrastinateedr and Peter Dinklage.
