Wicked director Jon M. Chu defends the film's deliberate color grading after complaints about the film being desaturated and dull were made online. Jon M Chu, the director of Wicked, has hit out at criticism about the film's colour grading after audiences attacked it for looking "washed out".
The musical follows Ariana Grande as Glinda. Apparently Wicked 's muted colors make it more like our desaturated reality Wicked director Jon M. Chu explains that he wanted viewers to "feel the dirt" of Oz.
'Wicked's' Color Grading Is Intended to 'Immerse People Into Oz, to Make It a Real Place,' Says Director Jon M. Chu: If It Was 'Fake,' Then the Relationships and Stakes 'Wouldn't. Another added: "Honestly amazing that modern filmmakers can take literally any source material, including a technicolor triumph like Wicked was based on, and turn its palette so washed out and blah.
"Underexposed, undersaturated, poorly lit film and tv shows are truly a plague upon our screens." But what is technicolor in the first place? People are criticising Wicked's washed out, unsaturated colours, but the director of the film has hit back. Wicked may have defied box office records raking in millions of dollars since its release earlier this week.
Fans and critics have called the film "magical" and have urged people to go and watch the "bewitching musical experience" featuring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. Despite rave reviews, ther. But there's been some criticism thrown at the blockbuster, specifically about its color grading.
And now director Jon M. Chu has defended stepping away from the "glorious technicolor" look on the. "I mean, there's color all over it," Jon M.
Chu says The post 'Wicked' Director Defends the Look and Color of the Film: Wanted to 'Feel the Wear and Tear' appeared first on TheWrap. The director has been hit with criticism over the handling of color in his musical adaptation pretty much from the jump. When the first promotional images of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as.