In the plethora of reds and greens that make up Amelie’s colour palette, orange is worthy of special consideration. No part of the film is left untouched. It may, then, seem counterintuitive to look upon orange as the exemption to the film’s digital colourisation. There is a scholarly agreement that colour …
Read More »Orange the Colour of Neurosis in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
One of the most striking colours in Bong Joon-ho’s award winning film Parasite (2019) is orange. The film presents a world where extreme poverty and extreme wealth maintain a ruinous symbiotic relationship: where the poor transform into parasites to survive, and the rich act as heartless parasites, leeching off each …
Read More »Orange as childhood perspective- part 2
In our first part of this essay, orange distinguished Amelie’s perspective and gradually seeped into the mise-en-scene. By colouring emotions of comfort and belonging with orange, we could relate to Amelie’s fantastical world. A children’s classic attesting to the power of imagination, the film version of A Little Princess employs orange in a, …
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