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Re: Color in films

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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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