In the book Orientalism of Palestinian American Edward Said in 1978, the author describes how America and European countries exaggerate the distortion of cultures different from them, as in the case of portraying Arab countries as uncivilized and dangerous.

This means is still prevalent to this day, in American books, news and films, so Mexico appears as a crusty place full of drugs, crime and violence, the Arab countries are desert, dust storms and beauty, and India is a dirty and crowded place all the time, and the people's culture is primitive.

This is a fact😂 pic.twitter.com/4PZffbLzck

- Ebuka. (@farouckbello) January 20, 2020

Saeed says that the dangerous and mysterious creation of the "other" helps to ensure the stability and supremacy of the Western self, to confirm that they are only the owners of civilization and the rest of the country are still primitive, and we have witnessed the use of these effects in most Hollywood films, so that you can distinguish in which country the events take place from the color of the image, Examples abound, including the following films:

Specter

In the opening scene of the movie "Specter" - one of the films in the 2015 James Bond series, which is based in Mexico - pictures appear with a yellow filter that makes the image faded and impure.

Extraction

Last April, Netflix released a new movie, "Extraction", starring Chris Hemsworth, set in Bangladesh.

Netflix published the promotional video of some of the clips during the filming of the film, and how the actors were intensively trained to show all the real scenes and the techniques used in photography and others, but all these amazing facts did not prevent the observation that the scenes depicted appeared naturally in vivid colors as we see them in all movies, but the copy The final of the movie appeared in a yellow color filter.

🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻 ‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️Chris Hemsworth 🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙 EXTRACTION 🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥🧨💥 on Netflix April 24 pic.twitter.com/TqrS62ZHkK

- NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) April 20, 2020

Traffic

The movie "Traffic" in 2000, directed by Stephen Soderberg, revolves around the drug trade in Mexico, and during one of the scenes of execution in the desert the scene appears using the yellow filter, while scenes of Michael Douglas - who plays the role of a judge from Ohio - appear in color Blue and the closest colors to reality.

Yellow filter effect

The yellow filter is often used in films that take place in India, Mexico or Southeast Asia and the Arab countries, and expresses warm, tropical and dry climates, to give a feeling that the air is hot and dusty, and makes the scene appear foggy as if it is dirty and dark, unlike the reality that is full of vitality, and has It is also used to refer to ancient events or recent years.

How to become a Hollywood director 101 pic.twitter.com/Q1h2eP8Tf8

- 🄷🄰🄽🅈 (@AhmadMHany) May 28, 2020

Filmmakers deliberately use this filter in countries that they consider dangerous or even primitive and ugly, so we find that these countries are full of landscapes and picturesque colors, but Hollywood films show them only with scenes of violence and poverty and pale colors, so the sky becomes dust, and the sea as if it is full of mud.

The use of these filters turns into stereotypes about these countries, and it reinforces viewers' minds that this fact is a consciousness due to the spread and popularity of American films, so it reflects a wrong image of the places and people who live in them, and perpetuates racism.

But in the case of filming movies in one of the western countries, filters are used in green and blue shades to express prosperity and vitality, and if we see these developing countries depicted by Hollywood in yellow, we will find that life is not as foggy as films depict, but the sky is blue and the air is not dusty as depicted by Hollywood.

These filters spread negative stereotypes about these countries and those who live in them, and reinforce the idea of ​​the American white savior who appears in this blurry picture to fight a war with gangs, drug dealers and poor villages, and of course he is the hero and savior.

As long as American films are the largest, the spread of such ideas will continue until others can produce strong works that show the reality of their civilization, such as what we see now in Bollywood films, which defeated the stereotype of the banality and lack of ideas of Indian films, and now produces films that win international awards.

Parasite makers managed to enter the Korean cinema of the world and win prizes, including the Oscar and the Golden Globe, surpassing the American films, to produce a realistic picture of South Korea and its civilization and problems, away from the style of American films.