Color can present space and describe things, decorate pictures and achieve a specific visual style together with other modeling elements, and as a crucial part of audio-visual language, it also undertakes an important task in conveying emotions.
Take "High Red Lanterns" as an example, the colors in this film are not rich, and the strong contrast is the gray tiles of the courtyard and the red lanterns hanging high in the courtyard. Combined with a certain background of the times, it can be concluded that the film is based on the feudal society period in Chinese history, the phenomenon of male superiority over women is serious, and monogamy has not been implemented. In the film, the "red lantern", which is both dazzling and responsible for clues, has become a certain important role.
First of all, red here represents a symbol of power. In the film, which concubine has the opportunity to serve the master, which lady's door will light up red lanterns. And whether the "lighting" is also related to the certain status of the wife in the mansion. From this, it can be seen that the red color formed a certain contrast with the gloom of the feudal society, highlighting the backward thinking and outdated concepts of this era. In addition, the red robe on Song Lian's body can also be understood as a repressed desire under "rights".
Furthermore, the large amount of gray in the film is the keynote of the Chen Family Courtyard. Gray occupies most of the time and area in the film. Against the background of this cool color, the whole yard seems lifeless and very depressing. Visual experience. The contrast between gray and red makes the red appear somewhat ironic, which represents Song Lian's self-mockery again and again, and also reflects the psychological changes of the characters in such an environment.
In addition, the film is divided into four seasons narratives of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In winter, white occupies a large amount of ingredients, where white represents a sense of life. In this winter, Songlian killed two people, one was her maid and the other was the third wife. These two lives have a lot of white snow before they come to an end. On the one hand, they follow the previous plot and continue to show the changes of Songlian. On the other hand, they also use white to show the leaving of these two lives. Some of the resentment was forced by this big environment to leave them.
The application of color in movies not only bears the aesthetics of part of the audio-visual language, but also follows the direction of the content, because the impact and emotion brought by the color itself are different. For example, warm colors can easily give people a positive experience, and cool colors can easily Representing experiences such as depression and fear, different colors have different performances in the film.
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