THE MEANING OF COLOURS IN SOME MOVIES SCENES

I have choosing the scenes from the following two movies:

-          Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and,

-          Hellboy 2, The Golden Army

In Harry Potter’s movie the scene occurs during the evening in the office of Professor Dolores Umbridge, who was wearing a pink dress with a light pink jacket. She was waiting for Harry Potter to punish him. Then she pretends to look friendly and affable, but she was just ironic do to the fact that she was willing to make some injuries to Harry. During the punishment Harry remained haughty and doesn´t lower his head, even when the blood was emerging from his body to make a mark on his skin, which would him remember the punishment. The colors used in this scene were dark colors as the movie pretended to be a mysterious movie because of the magic context, which is one of the reasons why the scene was captured with a minimum amount o light. As it is written above, professor Umbridge was wearing a formal pink dress which is typically used by women everywhere.  Harry was wearing his black daily school dress. Normally, male students wear dark school dresses. In most regions in Colombia male students wear jeans and white shirts; if the temperature is low they wear dark sweaters or jackets. The color red from Harry Potter’s blood represents the punishment and pain he had to suffer. In Colombia we associate red color with love and passion but also with the devil, blood and sacrifice.

In Hellboy’s movie, scene captures a fight between the good and evil. A prince released something like a green bean from a gold case which in contact with water grows up as a very big dark green monster that started to destroy everything. Hellboy and his friends were trying to take control of the situation, at the end Hellboy shoots with his gun in the head of the monster and killed it.

The movie was recorded in an outdoor context, during the night - it was cold according with the dressing that people was wearing. The colors that were associated to this scene are: blue, because of the context and to give the impression of a low temperature, green as the meaning of danger and red to represents a diabolic creature which was made to assist the evil. As a sign of its positive transformation Hellboy decided to cut off its horns. In Colombia, normally neon green color is associated with something that is corrosive, dangerous or hazardous; the blue color is associated with water, the heaven and sometimes with things that are cold.