It's one thing to favor a blue/teal palette in the art direction, accurately photographed to accentuate its pulsating blue/teal tones, but quite another to impose a blue/teal palette on an image where the color did not exist before. Steel desks are blue. Ditto for typewriters. Look at the pages of the manuscripts littering the desks. They're blue - not white! Look at the men's crisp white business shirts. They're blue. Not white. Look at the bricks and mortar of the buildings, the concrete side walks, the metal garbage cans outside David Savage's apartment, the cement window sills, the ambulances, etc. et al. Fabian's outer office steno pool used to favor a cold white traditional 50's office feel with random splashes of bold rich reds, mustard yellows and greens for the doors leading to the executive's offices. All these colors have been muted and bathed in a blue hue. There are no true whites in the office now, nor grays, nor beige; all of which were part of the original art direction color scheme! They've all adopted a very heavy and unnatural blue wash. Ditto for shadow highlights. Stephen Boyd's shiny black hair has blue highlights. The robin egg blue of various actors' eyes bleeds into the whites of their eyes.
This is not 'enshrined' blue/teal bias put forth in Mark-Lee Kirk, Jack Martin Smith or Lyle Wheeler's art direction, and certainly, NOTHING in Adele Palmer's costuming recommends it for virtually all of the men's business suits; Boyd appearing perpetually attired in a grungy greeny/blue suit. All you have to do is check out the scene where Mr. Shalamar attempts to feel up Caroline Bender's leg in the commissary while Mike Rice and April look on to see how heavy-handed the blue bias is. Background information, clothing, eye tint, shadow highlights - all VERY blue and VERY inaccurate. It makes for an ugly and extremely untrue representation of what The Best of Everything used to look like. I say, no thanks. Others may disagree. The beauty of this forum is that it allows for both points of view.
This is not 'enshrined' blue/teal bias put forth in Mark-Lee Kirk, Jack Martin Smith or Lyle Wheeler's art direction, and certainly, NOTHING in Adele Palmer's costuming recommends it for virtually all of the men's business suits; Boyd appearing perpetually attired in a grungy greeny/blue suit. All you have to do is check out the scene where Mr. Shalamar attempts to feel up Caroline Bender's leg in the commissary while Mike Rice and April look on to see how heavy-handed the blue bias is. Background information, clothing, eye tint, shadow highlights - all VERY blue and VERY inaccurate. It makes for an ugly and extremely untrue representation of what The Best of Everything used to look like. I say, no thanks. Others may disagree. The beauty of this forum is that it allows for both points of view.
