The color blue has other interesting associations too. You mention it as the color of the future, but in English it’s also the color of sadness. In fact, notice how future-blue is quite frequently a color associated with emotionless machines, sterile broken utopias, oppressive orderliness, coldness, and similar unpleasantnesses. Due to movie making’s need for visual contrast this also resulted in the color of chaos, happiness, warmth, and life becoming orange, even if it hadn’t that association before (I don’t know whether it did).
Curiously, here in Brazil there’s some association between blue and happiness, not of the effusive kind, more that of a calm contentment. The lyrics for a famous song by Brazilian soul singer Tim Maia puts it so (my translation):
Blue as the color of the sea
Tim Maia
"Ah! If the whole world could hear me
I have much to tell
Saying that I learned
And in life
We must understand
That one is born to suffer
While the other laughs
But who suffers
Always must seek
At least come to find
A reason to live
To see in life some motivation
To dream
To have a dream wholly blue
Blue as the color of the sea
But who suffers
Always must seek
At least come to find
A reason to live
To see in life some motivation
To dream
To have a dream wholly blue
Blue as the color of the sea"
The color blue has other interesting associations too. You mention it as the color of the future, but in English it’s also the color of sadness. In fact, notice how future-blue is quite frequently a color associated with emotionless machines, sterile broken utopias, oppressive orderliness, coldness, and similar unpleasantnesses. Due to movie making’s need for visual contrast this also resulted in the color of chaos, happiness, warmth, and life becoming orange, even if it hadn’t that association before (I don’t know whether it did).
Curiously, here in Brazil there’s some association between blue and happiness, not of the effusive kind, more that of a calm contentment. The lyrics for a famous song by Brazilian soul singer Tim Maia puts it so (my translation):