If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die : The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling by Bellantoni Patti

Author:Bellantoni, Patti. [Patti., Bellantoni,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-01-08T05:47:19.990000+00:00

Chapter 1

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Powerful, Lusty, and Defiant Reds

react to them. We respond positively to the colors of the earth. We feel familiar with Clint Eastwood’s tiny adobe house in Unforgiven, for example.

This is a place where mud is a daily part of living. It is as if this home grew out of the ground on which it sits, and Eastwood takes time to idle on the adobe walls so they register in our senses. Look carefully inside and you can see how the house tells the history of the man (see page 153).

Versatile orange can also read as exotic. Think of the luxuriant silks of both Monsoon Wedding and Bend It Like Beckham. Actually, Alfonso Cuaron used lush saffron and oranges brilliantly in A Little Princess to define the young heroine and contrast her character with that of the muddy greens worn by the headmistress of a repressive school for girls.

The film Elizabeth offers an opportunity to see the color as a character arc: if you fast-forward through the film, you will visually be able to follow orange’s role in the queen’s rise to power. From the first time you see her as an adolescent to her becoming one of the most powerful monarchs in history, watch for the orange that defines her to evolve from sherbet to blood (see page 123).

After more than twenty years of color investigations, my students and I have concluded that we do not expect orange to stimulate analytical activity. If Thelma and Louise had only known . . .

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