Eye Color Symbolism, Explained - What Each Color Means In Movies & TV

[@thetake]

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[@AlternativeCavern]

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[@AlternativeCavern]

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[@AlternativeCavern]

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[@cherarmstrong1460]

I have grey eyes, and the most common thing I see is assumption of my eye color without looking because of "blonde hair/blue eyes" and the erasure of grey eyes as a color in existence

[@A.l.a.c.]

I have dark brown (almost black). I think every eye color is beautiful when in harmony with another traits. I don't think dark eyes are boring. It depens on your personality and the way you look.

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

I think very dark brown eyes with dark hair look very pretty. I don't understand why anyone would find them boring.

[@oliviakinter179]

Actress Vivien Leigh had blue eyes, but Scarlett O’ Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND is described as having green eyes in the novel. While filming, to give the illusion that she had green eyes, makeup gave her slightly green undertones near her eyes, as well as the cinematographer tried to film close ups whenever she was wearing green.

[@appletree6898]

That's so interesting! I always thought her eyes were green!

[@SpandexTree]

I've noticed that brown eyes are only complimented when they're specifically described as "big doe brown eyes." As a person with brown eyes and a mono-lid, I can't win lol

[@niabelizaire3596]

I have brown eyes that are round.

[@fredels5649]

I have blue eyes but I prefer men with brown eyes, by far. Brown eyes for many are more attractive!

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

I have also heard deep brown eyes or compared to chocolate lol.

[@asteraster8667]

Im an artist, and I always loved monolids - they look clean and its so elegant to me. Lucy Liu's mom always shamed her eyes, she thought they look small, and hated her freckles, but Hollywood and whole world was captivated by her eyes and face. Alot of monolids look as elegant as hers, so you don't have to hate them, as the whole world kneeled before a woman with eyes like urs. Eurocentric beauty standards is a scam anyways ❤

[@andieallison6792]

​@@asteraster8667omg I love her freckles 😭

[@kadesmith3054]

I would like to see The Take do a video on people with two different eye colors

[@angelagokool9514]

I have dark brown eyes. I think eye color only has meaning if we place meaning onto it. All eye colors are beautiful. Thanks for the video.

[@gabrielafonseca4034]

Ok, I love you guys and have been following for a long time, but this one felt like you were overreaching and scraping the bottom of the barrel at the same time. It's just another version of the "blonde, brunette, redhead" tropes and those "What your eye color says about you" videos. Eye color is most of the time barely distinguishable onscreen, blue and green eyes look pretty much the same when filmed and I seriuosly doubt someone lost or won a part based on their eye color. Ocassionally, actors have to change the color of their eyes to play a character, like Jim Caveziel to play Jesus, but really all this meaning you are reading into eye color is not cutting it for me.

[@elsagournay6660]

I agree with you. My first thought it was that they are running out of ideas. And it's understandable. My favourite video is the one about Cool girl, wish they would do something like that again.

[@gabrielafonseca4034]

@elsagournay6660 that one is one of my favorites too!

[@elan825]

I totally agree with the stereotypes overlapping with hair color. But I beg to differ on eye color being a factor in casting. Blue eyes especially have been such a huge sign of beauty (in the US and Europe) for since color cinema exists, that it's really noticeable how many Hollywood actors and actresses have them. They're so overrepresented. Really rare, piercing shades of blue also, sometimes even edited as turquoise.

[@Justaguythatcameby]

It is recommended not to wear makeup nor anything that calls attention to an audition because directors do focus on everything about you, some have a very visual way of story telling so yeah things like eye color or hair color matter

[@jadacampbell9331]

Eye shape makes an impact on color as well. If they're beady, then color definitely doesn't stand out

[@jamilaharmstrong9677]

You all forgot about gray eyes, which is also a real eye color because I was born with that eye color and had several family members with that color

[@KrisRN23935]

They are typically lumped in with blue eyes. They're the "icy blues" mentioned in the video.

[@jamilaharmstrong9677]

@KrisRN23935 They may have been mentioned that way, but gray is not "icy blue" hence the reason I and a few other people mentioned it. It is its own color with its own spectrum of shades and deserves to have its own mention, especially if they were going to mention colors like red and purple that are very rare and yellow that are basically animalistic. But I digress...

[@appletree6898]

The Odyssey refers to "gray-eyed Athena" over and over, so you're in good company! 🦉

[@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna]

I have grey eyes also as I have Central Asian ancestry where grey eyes originated from (Tajikistan also am Persian, Russian, Burmese, Portuguese/Spanish, French).

[@RSB1949]

You lucky lucky thing. Bet your eyes are stunnnnning

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

Van Morrison should credit in making brown eyed girls like myself feel special with brown eyed girls and they can sparkle to with make up lol. In romance novels and fanfics the effects of every eye color is exaggerated lol

[@madisonadams374]

My eyes change colors. It's a cool and unique physical trait I was born with. My cousin's little girl has a beautiful angel speck in one of her eyes... That's what you call a speck of discoloration (different color) than her dominant eye color. It's really unique, and it's pretty looking at her eyes. I hope she embraces and loves her unique little angel speck growing up.

[@ChiamakaLilian-b2q]

I am of african descent and brown eyed,and sometimes i feel it is not special enough 😅. Could you please do a take on the depictions of twins in pop culture. And i would also like a video on the cultural significance of hugh Hefner and the playboy magazine

[@Sweetmelissaaah]

Great idea ❤

[@asiya-y4b]

i live in the north part of russia, i barely see people with brown eyes, so for me theyre special❤

[@ChiamakaLilian-b2q]

Thanks 😊 ​@@asiya-y4b

[@maloneaqua]

ya eye color is literally a byproduct of how mush melanin you have (less melanin in an iris means lighter color) so I can't take any of the attribute associations seriously

[@Hallows4]

Love this. I wanted more exploration of eye color symbolism after the blue-eyed girl video and this is a great response.

[@missanthropy6174]

Can’t believe y’all didn’t cover heterochromia. The way that dual eye color is used in media is very prominent. It’s also not well know that there are multiple kinds of heterochromia, not just the kind where one eye is one color and the other eye is a different color. That’s complete heterochromia when one eye is a completely different color than the other. There’s also sectoral heterochromia where a part or parts of one or both eyes are different colors. And the last kind is central heterochromia where the central part of the iris ringing the pupil is a different color than the outer part of the iris. I have central heterochromatic eyes, green with a ring of amber around my pupils. My whole life people have argued over whether my eyes are green, brown, or hazel. But they’re actually two different colors- green and light brown. And like I said, the way heterochromia and the various types of heterochromia have an interesting trend of representation in media that is quite different from any of the homochromatic eye colors.

[@ArkaraValtare3729]

Im from colombia and i have hazel eyes, there are people with blue or green eyes but the majority is brown, and people is always flattering me for that, although i feel im not attractive enough, i would be like a character that looks normal but has something that stand out in the story.

[@sheisjazzz]

You know what i have seen almost NEVER? Brown eyed people who have blonde hair. WE EXIST! Americans think blondes can only have blue or green eyes and it annoys me so much.

[@kimonaNo1]

What about folks with different coloured eyes?

[@devilinred3319]

In books are always important special character

[@hermask815]

As a color deficient person you can’t trust me with colours, but can I trust folks who call all definitely black haired „brown haired“ ?

[@chaellExE]

Blue eyes are super common where I am from.

[@kayleighdriessen]

I was born with natural blue eyes that over time turned to a deep ocean blueish gray, sometimes I wish I had purple or emerald green or amber eyes.

[@Hlnodovik]

Regina George with hazel eyes? I see them blue.

[@TributesAndUnique]

Why are they only focusing on girls' eyes?

[@sadfunnymouse]

It’s okay why not?

[@TributesAndUnique]

@ too much focus on women’s looks. Comes across as male gazey

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

​@@sadfunnymouseBecause the title is eye colour in film, not female eye colour in film, so it's weird.

[@sadfunnymouse]

@@NotAnotherKuromi female eye color in film is still eye color in film?

[@janwel74]

Hey! You mention purple, red, yellow and WHITE eyes but not grey?? The heck?

[@darienna_]

As a grey eyed person, I agree 😂

[@LotsofLisa]

Same, one of my besties from grade school has grey eyes and of Ukraine descent.

[@janwel74]

@@darienna_ in medieval Europe we would have been considered the epitome of beauty. Grey eyes are/were very uncommon, and were frequently used to depict the most idealised beauty, purity and/or wisdom in medieval literature.

[@darienna_]

@@LotsofLisa I am from Ukraine too 🫶🏻

[@EmoBearRights]

Buffy has more hazel eyes a mixture of green and brown.

[@nlhndgrmnc]

back in 2015, i dyed my hair light ginger red for the first time and i've found out that i have dark hazel eyes cause they changed color. i started see my eyes very light in the mirror and it was very w*ird at first. then i looked at them in the sunlight and i wasn't going insane. i asked my eye doctor and he confirmed it too. apparently, hazel eyes usually the ones change color when the person dyes her/his/their hair. cause they mostly carry brown, amber, blue and green in them. my dad and aunt have light hazel eyes but i've never thought that i had hazel eyes too. my mother's eyes are dark brown, so as my big sister's. that's why i always thought that i had dark brown eyes like them. it was a very fun revelation for me. 😁

[@heutebinichmalweg]

Sometimes banana is just a banana. I'm sorry, but you're reaching.

[@natasham4184]

Look, I'm not a casting agent (if anyone here is, please enlighten me), but I feel like, unless it's a specific part of a character's look or story, is eye colour really considered that much for every role? Is every screen character's eye colour chosen specifically to convey a particular personality, or have we just applied these stereotypes afterwards? Because, as this video even states, there are a wide variety pf character types with all common eye colours. If anything, it might be the combination of eye and hair colour that creates a look.

[@anamoreno5017]

You forgot heterochromia

[@wittykitty1]

Ahem... grey eyes?

[@hollygeorge4688]

What about Elizabeth Taylor’s purple eyes?

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

They were dark blue

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

They called them violet. Not “purple.” lol.

[@andieallison6792]

They aren't purple

[@margaretkerr4591]

I feel my eyes have always appeared very dull. I have dark blue/ grey eyes

[@winniediallo4118]

What about gray/silver eyes

[@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna]

I have Silver eyes 🐺

[@kroketbanana1792]

I am Korean, and the only time I’ve been complimented on the color of my dark brown eyes was when I was getting glasses fitted in the Netherlands. My partner likes my eye for the look of mischief I sometimes get in them.

[@yl861]

As a person from a non-white majority country, the symbolism media built around eye color was so unreal as 99% of the people around me have brown eyes 😂, maybe lighter or darker. Like, what was the point?

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

Does your country's media also focus on blue and green eyes a lot? Imo it seems to be the USA who seems oddly focused on eye colour, like this video sounded like racism, I literally never thought of an evil character "oh yes of course they had green eyes of course they would be evil!" That prejudice is not common here. I think people compliment if blue eyes are bright as it is rare but it is not linked to inner characteristics.

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

But what if I brought up…heterochromia?

[@greyLeicester]

For me it is not the colour but the shape and proportions

[@sscoutistaken]

Reminder that in other countries, the code is different, especially in East Asia

[@jo_jo_jo]

As a blue-eyed person, even myself I'm aware of how much privilege derives from such a trivial thing.

[@swatisaini6447]

What kind of privilege u get with blue eyes?

[@RoninRen]

And somehow, within animation/comic books, there's usually the pairing of a blue-eyed guy with a green-eyed girl, yes granted it can be out of aesthetic reasons. However, it does give off a class differences undertones between the couple(like green eyes are like a metaphor for a girl from a working middle-class background, and the blue-eyed guy being naive, as an indicator that he grew-up sheltered)

[@samj5183]

Sofia Vergara's eyes are hazel not brown

[@messinalyle4030]

Is it just me, or does this page and other analysts of literature and media only focus on women when taking about the symbolical significance of eye color? Why no mention of what different eye colors mean on men?

[@sadfunnymouse]

I am okay with that

[@rtothec1234]

David Bowie had a battle going on if you know what I mean. 😏 Nobody knows what’s like behind blue eyes.

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

That’s a “the who” song

[@rtothec1234]

@ yes i know

[@andieallison6792]

He had two different pupil sizes

[@nicholasguadagnino667]

Why isn't Judge Doom on this video?;

[@trinaq]

I have grey eyes, and I used to be sad that there weren't many depictions of grey eyed characters. Apparently, they're meant to symbolise wisdom and uniqueness.

[@janwel74]

@@trinaq in medieval Europe we would have been considered the epitome of beauty. Grey eyes are/were very uncommon, and were frequently used to depict the most idealised beauty, purity and/or wisdom in medieval literature.

[@andieallison6792]

They're super uncommon

[@inesatt1313]

I love my eyes

[@Chrobotka]

Blue eyes are not only 10%. Green eyes are most rare...

[@Kjos_jax]

I find people with all eye color beautiful b

[@Kjos_jax]

Hazel is just a shade of brown eyes

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

No hazel means that they contain more than one colour. Google image hazel eyes as I can not explain it well.

[@titocantarero1330]

this maybe an unpopular opinion but I see blue and sometimes even green eyes as artificial and fake and brown as more earthy and more trustworthy. As I dig deeper I feel that people with blue and green eyes are more susceptible to being liars and not grounded in something like tradition or believing in community or something bigger than themselves. I don’t know why.

[@fredels5649]

I have blue eyes, I feel blue eyed people are very ''airie'', daydreaming often and veryy sensitive so we put barriers to protect our vulnerable selves, so it makes them appear cold. Brown eyes do appear warmer, but not necessarily trustworthy in my experience.

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

It’s cuz they’re usually white