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But there is likely a scenario where we never seen the Joker in the movie with this tone jacket. So you could be matching to a color that he never actually wears in the movie regardless of what it looks like in real life. So the philosophical argument is the color in the movie after the color grade has been applied is the color of the jacket because the color grade in an artistic choice the film makers made (and many times, certain colors are chosen not for their real life properties, but for how they will appear in the final product). The color of the jacket on film is the true in-world representation of the color. In the BTS stills, we aren't seeing in-world Joker, we're seeing Heath Ledger dressed up as the joker.Simple, you use reference of him in costume on set, but not under color grading.
This way you get the best of both worlds, no blue color grading, no WB Lot costume museum lighting.
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Imagine a movie with a more severe color grade (let's use Oh Brother Where Art Thou since it's the classic example and responsible for the way films are color graded today). If you were making a representation of George Clooney's character, a saturated, real world wardrobe wouldn't be accurate to what we see on screen. And wouldn't read as being accurate. You'd need to work from the footage of the film itself and match the warm, desaturated tones.