The lighting is often somber and shadowy, the colors muted.
Its ethereal evocation of a pulp-fiction future-past eclipses almost any other sci-fi franchise in subtlety and imagination, but shadowy washed-out color is a far cry from the robust hues of a movie like "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
And the tinting of the glasses darkens images that are already shadowy and dim, turning colors drab and faces indistinct.
In his final two decades, Busoni favored subdued colors and shadowy forms, his music always on the point of vanishing over the horizon.
Significantly, the silk carpets, with their patina of soft colors and shadowy equestrian prints, are made by artisans in China who hand-weave the 155,000 knots, to the designs of the American artists Janis Provisor and Brad Davis.
Regular chroma-keying replaces a single key color with an overlaid image, but the grass or turf on a football field contains a range of colors, from shadowy dark greens to mud brown, and the colors can change as daylight fades or as clouds pass in front of the sun.
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In his version, the gang members actually look like teen-agers; the Latina chorus girls are not Broadway beautiful; the costumes (by David C. Woolard) and set designs (by James Youmans) explore the subtle, shadowy ranges of a color palette that takes the show away from glitzy spectacle and toward a grittier, more muted stylization.
We like them because, after centuries of shadowy, complicated illusionism, they used bold colors and simplified shapes.
It is much easier to coax detail out of shadowy underexposed areas than to put color back into overexposed areas.
