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

The eyes are the windows to the soul, and on screen, from blue eyes to brown eyes to green eyes and beyond, the color that adorns those eyes can tell you a lot about the soul within. So, let’s take a deeper look at what each eye color has come to represent on screen, and how that’s changing!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:48 Blue eyes
03:35 Brown eyes
05:54 Green eyes
07:33 Hazel eyes
08:52 The 'dark vs light eye color fight' trope
10:23 Rare & unearthly colors
11:37 Color confusion & loving all eye colors

The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was narrated by Charly Bivona, written by Jessica Babineaux, and edited by John Todd

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