I am anxious to analyze the color effect in Zhang Yimou's My Father and Mother from the perspective of painting color.

In the movie "My Mom and Dad", the real time and space and the past time and space used cold and warm contrasting colors respectively, creating different atmospheres. In the traditional film concept, the paragraphs that are usually used as memories are treated as black and white, which is a feeling of past lives, but this film is unconventional. In Zhang Yimou's words: "Because I think this is a three-day story, a story about a funeral. There is no smile, no happy mood, only painful nostalgia and attachment to the dead, plus it is snowing and winter. So I want to better convey such a feeling with the effect of black and white. The memory part is colored because it is a very beautiful memory and image sense. " (Quoted from Dialogue with Zhang Yimou, p. 169)

In real time and space, my father died, and my mother and I prepared a funeral for him. The film uses black and white photos to symbolize death and heaviness. In the cultural history of our country, red is a symbol of enthusiasm and hope. Therefore, in the narrative of the past time and space, my mother wore a red cotton-padded jacket with broken flowers, a red hairpin, a red cloth and other local colors, as well as the surrounding orange environment. The use of these warm pictures shows the warmth, excitement and sweetness of her parents when they are in love. In contrast, the color of past time and space and the cool color of real time and space contain harmony.

1, red-warm heart, hot as fire.

In My Mom and Dad, red is the picture of my mother in my father's eyes, and it is the passionate and lifelong infatuation. From the crazy pursuit of red cotton-padded jacket to the affectionate grip on red hairpin, love has been undoubtedly revealed, but this straightforwardness still needs to be recreated. Here, the role of red divergent thinking can be reflected. Mother's red rope is like a lead, igniting emotional fireworks and blooming in the night of memories. In the ice and snow, my mother is waiting for my father on the road in a red coat. At first glance, the fiery red and pale ice and snow set each other off, creating a helpless and thin atmosphere. The red dress is covered with heavy snow from time to time, which can dig out Gothic suffocation and squeezing, and the effect is similar to the beginning and end of black and white documentary. Red is the soul of the film, it can express everything, decorate everything, and convey the deep love, loyalty and belief that once boiled in that era and will not be deliberately remembered.

2, yellow-the sea is enchanted, gentle as water.

Yellow leaves and red clothes. In My Father and Mother, you can see a lot of yellow as the background, which highlights the mother's heartfelt satisfaction in the pursuit of true love and is full of obsession and persistence in love. As a regional color of large-scale rendering, yellow in the film provides the keynote for the audience to better feel the plot, and at the same time achieves the purpose of sublimation. The broad forest with yellow leaves is illuminated by the sun through the gap, and my mother shuttles through it, chasing the happiness that needs to be grasped. So, on the muddy road, my feelings broke ground and sprouted, carrying my mother away with joy and watching with my father affectionately. The film focuses on the countryside, so that this affectionate yellow with the long fragrance of earth will last for a long time. Unlike some "color psychology" today, Huang is only analyzed as "unfamiliar and unreasonable". Here, yellow symbolizes eternity and conveys the tenacious, long-lasting and profound love between father and mother.

3, black and white-the solemn pain of disheartened

Compared with the mainstream red and yellow, other colors have really become decorations. Just like the black hair and snow in the empty lens where the distance and the distance blend and intersperse.

At the end of the film, in the black-and-white tone picture, there is a long farewell team in the heavy snow, which makes people cry, in sharp contrast to the original fear that there are not enough people and the road is difficult to walk. This contrast deeply shocked the hearts of the audience. When dealing with this scene of carrying back, the director adopted the form of fuzzy alternation of multiple pictures, which was closely combined with the scene of people rushing to carry coffins off, so that the pictures were carried out in a dull and painful situation. Therefore, in the face of the thick snow and the vast wilderness, in the face of long farewell queues and people scrambling to carry coffins, in the black and white tone, when the film is about to end, every audience is moved by it.

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