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Two gifs depicting a scene from the show Community.

A shirtless man is on the ground in front of a christmas display in a mall saying, “Please, it’s Christmas!” He looks afraid and flinches backwards.

Shirley Bennett appears enraged and swings a giant candy cane over her head and hits him with it as he attempts to roll away. As she hits him she yells, “It’s December 10th!”

The camera is shaky in both shots.

voices from the old elm (1857) - h.p. andrews

I know people often compare it to Spy Kids or Lazy town, but I don't think that comparison encapsulates the use of color in this movie correctly. I think it would be more apt to compare it to recent cartoons that have come out, like Spiderman: Across the Spider verse, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Kpop Demon Hunters.

Yes, everything is extremely saturated, but it's also purposeful, deliberate, and stylized. As I said, nothing else looks like Speed Racer.

The use of exaggerated color on the other cars makes the glistening white of the Mach 5 stand out. They inverse the colors on Rex's Mach 4 so the ghostly car can be seen separate from the Mach 5 when they overlap during the opening race.

And don't get me started on the final lap at the end of the movie, from the zebra zoetrope on the side of the track to the finish line wrapping around Speed in a kaleidoscope as he crosses it. Masterful.

And the night scenes! While muted compared to the rest of the movie, still more vibrant than most night scenes you see in movies today (isn't it great when you can actually see what's going on in the scene?). Love the moon's. And the use of the blazing red background in the scene with Racer X casing down the truck with the cartel guys who kidnapped Taejo.

There are so many other things I could point out.

But for now, all I can say is *chefs kiss