>Steven Soderbergh used different optical effects to make the three separate plotlines visually distinct from each other in Traffic (2000), which included a yellow filter for Mexico >everyone else copied him because they're fucking hacks, and unlike him they did it digitally so they're twice as hacky
Correct, it was a trend and copying a now mostly forgotten film. It's just understood that once you travle to Mexico it becomes yellow. The idea is hot desert = sand = yellow. But you'd only ever encounter these conditions in a literal DUST STORM.
Fincher’s The Game had piss Mexico in ‘97. From Dusk Till Dawn probably had it in ‘96 but I think it was yellow before they crossed the border.
>>218626582Stalker was also yellow in 1979, which is weird because that's Russia?
