![]() ![]() ![]() For Theodore especially, he wears these brown wool pants. We wanted the happiness and warmth that comes with those colors, because it makes clear that the future is not an unhappy place. The red shirt that Theodore wears in the poster is actually a shirt of mine that I had been wearing to early meetings, and Spike was like, “It’s such a great color what if we put it in the movie?” So we ended up with a lot of reds or these primary yellows. He became excited about the absence of blue as a visual reference. How did that happen?ĬS: It’s avoiding what’s traditionally in the future. MN: You also removed the color blue almost entirely. Why would you still have it if you didn’t need to? And it’s really interesting when you take what’s been standard and you remove it. Businesspeople have worn suits and ties for hundreds of years. The length of the jacket might change and the width of tie might change. Part of it is just the workplace casual that seems to be in place at the office of Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix’s main character), but then you realize you don’t see it anywhere.ĬS: The suit and tie is fascinating, historically speaking. MN: The lack of suits and ties did that for me. When something you see every day you don’t see anywhere in the movie, you start to get the sense you’re in a different world. When you’re watching you can’t put your finger on it, but you know something’s not like it is now. So in our vocabulary we took away collars, and denim, and lapels, and even belts and ties. And we thought, “Wouldn’t it make more sense, instead of making that stuff up, to take away things that do exist?” Because that’s how these thing go – what’s really popular fades away. MN: It’s also striking how certain things are absent, almost as though you wanted to say that we were going to shed many of the conventions we take for granted.ĬS: What usually happens in future movies is that filmmakers start adding things. PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of movies and TV If you had all the things in the world, what would you gravitate to? For a lot of people it would be something warm and comfortable. You can choose from everything in the world, so clothes become more individual. We thought what really made more sense, what could very likely be happening, is access. Or I guess that’s the thought progression. And the way you depict coldness is you use clothes and colors that suggest coldness-blacks and silvers and whites and blues. And when there’s distance you lose warmth and end up with coldness. MN: Because so many of those movies do just that-the clothes and the whole movie has this sheen to it, black-and-silver uniforms, latex, lots of boots-almost as though there’s some unofficial rule in a costume-designer handbook that mandates that.ĬS: I think with a lot of other movies the logic is that with technology taking over our lives that it creates distance. We wanted to use updated elements of things we know rather than project things we didn’t. Casey Storm: When we first started talking about how to depict the future we immediately disliked anything you usually see in movies about the future. ![]()
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