The movies that I choose to analyze are Blades of Glory and Harry Potter and the Order Phoenix.
The first one is a skating on ice competition, it takes place in Montreal Canada, it is very curious because is a Male Couple which is not very common. The two guys start making their performance according to the rhythm of the Aerosmith´s song “I don´t want to miss a thing”. They are very coordinated making their skating dance and in the middle of the show one of the guys fell down and everybody in the audience is unhappy with that. Then his partner – who apparently was his enemy in the past- encourage him to continue with the routine and finish it and they star to gain the audience approval and at the end win the competition and make all the public sheer for them.
The main colors that the clips highlight are the blue and the red, one of the guys use blue, the other one uses red. Also in the skating ring the floor is white and all the letters and lines in the floor are blue and red. For me this represents the balance between two things very different that could be assembled by mutual respect and cooperation, when one of the guys fall and the other one helped him it was demonstrated that they have solve their differences and done some teamwork to achieve their dreams of winning a competence. The red means hot, the blue means cold, I believe they wanted to show the harmony between this two opposite things with rhythm and dance, is like mixing fire with ice in a unique thing that allows both of them to live together. Also the audience is very colorful, there are many different colors that for me represents diversity and representation of all races, so this perfect matched of Ice and Fire gain the respect of all kinds of races.
I agree with the use of these colors because according to my culture and my country red and blue are very meaningful for show rivalry, also because the red is the color of the political party of our actual President, and the blue has been used by his opposition political party, so if sometime I would like to describe how my actual President and their opposite can work together in something just for the benefit of everybody and even their own benefit I definitively would represent it with blue and red.
The second movie is one I really like, because I am a huge fan of Harry Potter, is from the 5th movie Phoenix Order, occurs in Professor Dolores Umbridge office, where Harry Potter goes for detention, he arrives while the Professor is drinking coffee, in her back there are portraits with a lot of cats hanging in the wall, he sit in a chair and she ask him to do some lines, writing “I must not tell lies” with a special quill that she gives him, the quill is inkless and when he starts writing his hand receive the same text in his skin, he looked at her with pain in his eyes and she said that he need the punishment with a little smile.
The main color that I could find in the clip is pink and pastels colors related to pink, for me the main idea that is wanted to be highlighted is the bad woman trying to look nice and innocent, she dress pink, has her office full of cats and floral things, everything is decorated according to pink and very light pastel tones of that color trying to reflect that she is a good, innocent and friendly woman, which in the reality is not that way, she is evil and very dark. Also I found smalls details related with colors that for me have a meaning, at the beginning she is drinking coffee, and is highlighted the brown coffee which is not common because British drink tea more often, for me that shows that the Professor deep inside is a bad person, also the golden pens that she has in her desk for me represents that is not an innocent woman but a very powerful one, for me the gold there represents power and control to others. Her personality and her pink dresses and jewelry, show her effort in looking nice and harmless.
In my country this color couldn´t show what is stated in this clip, in our culture and perception when someone -specially girls- are related with this color is because they have really an innocent soul, no bad woman could use that color, is our perception, someone who wear pink must be innocent and pure for real. If we want to use a color to show pureness and goodness but just for appearance maybe beige, light blue, lilac or light red could be the right one, in this way people can look good but the audience can start to figure out that inside is not like that at all.
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