I've only zapped past this show a few times, never watched it, but the colours have always struck me as strangely intense and bright.
What is the technical reason for this? I'm in Europe, so I've zapped past it on PAL TV sets.
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Yeah in Miami everything is flashy and bright! That is why they have colors in there. You have to have some flash to get peoples attention you know. I mean for me as a guy I would wear some clothes or certain colors to appeal to women when I go out.
Trust me it helps and works and I think women does it as well. It is what you call strutting your peacock feathers around to appeal to the opposite sex.
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I also heard somewhere that Silk Stalkings started out to be a low budget show. They didn't have allot of money. But what they lacked in quality due to having to keep the cost low, they took back in color. They used allot of colors on the set to get people to watch the show, cause the colors drew peoples attention.
I also heard that the intro was made in only one day. They sent someone out with a camera and a couple of actors/actresses and told them to make a intro. I can't remember if the music was made before or after the intro was filmed. But point is, it looks cool, but it was made with almost no money, in one day with only one camera. Thats pretty cool :-)
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Thanks! That is some great information that you gave to me. I appreciate that a lot! Yes they always did go with some bright colors which was good. You also have to remember that possibly NBC/Universal Studios who are the parent company to USA Network might not have given the show that much money to work with when it first started.
The show still was good to watch though.
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Also, one more note on the colors.
The colors used by the costume department were actually dead on.
In the artistic sense so to speak.
All the colors, most specifically worn by the two leads, are either always direct compliments, or analogous colors.
So, whoever did the costuming actually put a lot of thoughts into the specific choices for each scene. Even if it was with a low budget.
You make some valid points about the color of the clothing and the clothing designer who selects what the main characters wear.
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Stop saying 'allot'. The term is 'a lot'. 'Lot' meaning 'plenty' and 'A' as in 'article', okay?
In any case, it's SAD when people write about colors THIS way.
Colors used to be normal. Have you ever seen the eighties? It was FULL of colors - color is a normal part of nature, look at space, planets, nature, skies, sunsets, sunrises.. even people's eye colors and such. PLENTY of color there, and no one questions it.
But when in modern times people detect (no pun intended) a TV show where colors were actually used (which is beautiful and normal to my eye, but in modern times, I can only call it 'refreshing', because it's so rare, because ugly grey and black and colorless sludge is the NORM these days, and it's irritatingly repulsive), they are actually SHOCKED by it and QUESTION it.
The colors of this show are NOT the problem, people questioning them is the shocking problem to me.
I knew the day would come when people would not only understand, like, want or use colors anymore, but to see it questioned so blatantly in a discussion forum has to be a really sad thing.
No one questions the _LACK_ of colors anymore, which is an EPIDEMIC, but people question the actual EXISTENCE or USAGE of colors - which would be NORMAL.. and was normal, and should be normal, and I can't WAIT for it to become normal again.
To live in times where no one would even think to question the colors of this show, Miami Vice, or the eighties in general, ahh. That would be heaven..
I say, ring in MORE colors, and I QUESTION YOUR QUESTIONING of colors!
WHAT'S WITH THE COLORLESSNESS IN THE WORLD?!!
_THAT_ is the real question!
Look at cars, clothes, umbrellas, ANYTHING - no color anywhere! What happened? This show was made just after the eighties had ended, they still had not only the guts, but good sense and eye to bring us beautiful colors (though look how badly lit the police station is inside), just before the world decided "NO MORE COLORS FOR YOU" and brought us into grey+black.
I swear, if NATURE didn't so matter-of-factly defy this kind of people's weird, probably indoctrinated and conditioned hatred of colors, I would have to commit a suicide or something. I can't live without colors, how can anyone creative?
Why aren't there protests against grey and black everywhere? Or 'thin' colors or 'dark' shades that you can't even see if you are even slightly color blind?
Why don't we hear people chanting "WE WANT COLORS! WE WANT COLORS!"??
Why are people apathetically accepting the norm of 'non-color'? Why can't people realize anymore what a NIGHTMARE VISION it used to be that the world would become colorless and grey?
It used to be a popular story element in horror - 'the world became colorless' used to be something to be SCARED of and something to feel horrible about - - NOW IT IS THE NORM, where people actually, and I still can't believe it, QUESTION colors in a TV show!
How can you question colors instead of embracing and enjoying them?!
HOW? ARE YOU A HUMAN BEING OR A ROBOT?
That really is how Miami looked in the early 90's.
Shocking, I know.
I was in San Diego with the Navy when they filmed the intro and I always wanted to find the locations, especially the parking lot exit with the body and the two big arrows. Right on with the colors! And Chris always wore those cool Palm Beach blazers. They had them in a local store and I always wanted to get a teal and a mauve, but at 200.00 a pop I didn't.
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Yeah it was Early 90's California pretending to be Florida
excessive Neon clothing is almost a surefire way to ID a series as Made in the 90s (the size of the women's Hair will typically narrow it down farther
Just one quick FYI: the show took place in Palm Beach, not Miami, about 70 miles north.
shareAnd the 70's, but less so then, I think, and the hair may well be long and straight, a la Cynthia Lennon. I remember being so glad to be able to get the Night Gallery episode, "The House," based on a wonderful short story and starring Joanna Pettet, one of the most beautiful women of our generation. It was as good as I remembered, but I was so distracted by the hippie-dippy clothes she wore I almost lost my way in the story!!!!!! ;) But loud colors and big hair--definitely 90's!!!!!!
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