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No, it is not "Red". It is not even "Reds".It is "High Heels", Pedro Almodóvar's masterpice. I don't recall another movie SOOOO dominated by a single color that you are about to scream. And so beautiful that you choke that scream and just keep watching.
There is red EVERYWHERE. And then there is some more red. Red lips occupying 40% of the screen. The rest - that dreadful red Chanel uniform. Someone please tell the director that all those ugly Chanel suites don't become young ladies? They are for the Hollywood matrons and madams...
Almodovar never made a great movie. But all his movies are fun to watch, are witty and interesting. This is great achievement in itself. You never spent days thinking about one of his works, but you also never feel raped or cheeted or wanting to throw up after watching it.
And by the way: piece of trivia. What did Bibi Anderson do there? Who the hell was Suzanna?
Good use of old Mina's songs, those old-familiar and haunting ones. Good choice, good choice... And that jail yard dance sequence is alone worth watching - it is simply riveting.
After watching the movie - quick look at the pair of Spanish cavalry swords - and yep - they have the royal RED crosses on them.
Talking about red - they used red tinted lenses.
Use of color in films has always been of keen interest to me.
Almodovar is quite skilled in his use of it.
Also check out the Chinese films of Zhang Yimou (my personal favorite director) - Qui Ju; Ju Duo; Raise the Red Lantern; Shanghai Triad, and many others.Also check out Kieslowski's (sp?) trilogy White, Red, and Blue.
Isn't it interesting that profound and vibrant use of color, though it can often be found in foreign films, is usually reserved for "cartoonish" US movies like Batman.
A notable exception is The Hudsucker Proxy.
Fell free to e-mail me if you have any comments- this is just about my favorite topic in film.DG
***Use of color in films has always been of keen interest to me.
Almodovar is quite skilled in his use of it.
Also check out the Chinese films of Zhang Yimou (my personal favorite director) - Qui Ju; Ju Duo; Raise the Red Lantern; Shanghai Triad, and many others.
Also check out Kieslowski's (sp?) trilogy White, Red, and Blue.Yes, I am familiar with those films, but nowhere else do I recall seeing such domination of a single color. For example, the die mill scenes in Ju Duo are trully artistic in an painting-as-art form sense, but they do not fixate on a single color.
When I say "fixated" I don't mean it in any bad sense. The use of red in that move is cheerful and adds to the overall presentation, doesn't distract from it.
***Fell free to e-mail me if you have any comments- this is just about my favorite topic in film
Please tell us about your other fovorites. Now that you got me thinking it that direction, I will try to come up with some titles too. Problem is, often if it is done right, you don't notice it, it simply enhances the overall effect without calling attention to itself, as it should.
Talking about the tradition of more vibrant colors in European films - the Europe IS more colorful than most of the US, which looks more single-color in comparisson. Same is true of Japan. And I shall never forget the change one experiences when crossing the West/East border in Germany - all colors suddently get replaced by shades of gray and rusty (well, in 1990 anyway).
Most of the ones that immediately came to mind I put in my last post.
You are talking to someone who received his film degree from MIT (I know, Film-MIT sounds like an oxymoron) in 1997 (I was the only major at the time), and has since been trapped in finance & administrative jobs - causing my creative mind to atrophy.At this point I only watch films for escapist reasons, and hence shy away from drama's in favor of lighter fare.
If you are really interested I have a 40 page paper I wrote analyzing the thematic use of color (both in actual props used, and in the time of day things are shot) in Ju Duo somewhere. One of the many interesting things was that the young boy (Tianquing) wears white garments as a child, until he is corrupted against his father by his uncle. Afterwards he only wears black.An interesting side note: Yimou was asked in an interview once about his use of color, and he mentioned he actually takes more time deliberating over the music used than his use of color!
What a scary thought!- and something almost completely lost on US audiences (on me at least) because of the language barrier, and our lack of knowledge of traditional Chinese music.DG
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