Zhang Yimou, Quentin and Wong Kar-wai are no match for him.

Red represents love, lust and violence, and it is the darling of many great directors, such as Zhang Yimou and quentin tarantino. They often use red as the main color of movies.

Among them, several Hollywood directors, david lynch, have a unique style and can be called a master of red control. In his lens, red creates all kinds of sly, erotic, crazy and horrible atmosphere. Compared with Quentin's blind bloody violence, Zhang Yimou's lust and Wong Kar-wai's ambiguous temptation, Lynch's use of red is richer and more imaginative.

Red takes you into the imaginary world.

Influenced by Freud's psychoanalysis, Lynch used colors to express human anxiety, panic and doubt ... and formed a distinctive "Lynch-style" color charm.

Red in Wild My Heart —— Crazy

This is a fantasy film that won the Palme d 'Or Award. All the characters in the film are full of hormones and wild. Mary was on the verge of collapse when she learned that her beloved lover Johnny had been killed for stalking her daughter's boyfriend. In front of the mirror, she painted her hands and face with lipstick. If she is bloody, the witch will launch crazy and terrible revenge.

The Red of Mulholland Road-Danger

Betty, an actress who always wears red clothes and has blonde hair and blue eyes, hides murder behind her sweet smiling face.

The film moves forward in the overlap of reality and dreams. Because of her bad acting career, Betty gradually went insane, and she killed her jealous girlfriend Rita.

The film uses a lot of red and black elements in the two heroines, creating a dream montage that is both real and illusory.

Red in blue velvet-desire

Dark red wallpaper, red chairs and bed decorations, the room is surrounded by red. Dorothy's red dress, bright red nails and full red lips created an abyss of lust for her and Frank.

Red in The Twin Peaks —— A Collection of Different Pronouns

Blurred-The red screen is a symbolic prop that appears repeatedly in Lynch's films. It is the carrier between the real world and the dream world.

In the drama "Twin Peaks", there is a super-dimensional space called "Black House". Here, the red curtain wall is a tool to separate reality from the hyperspace, and anything can happen behind the curtain wall. The serrated floor is in sharp contrast with the indoor furniture, which makes people feel lost and at a loss.

Violence-above the gray house, the dazzling neon signs of guns hide danger and killing.

Weird-The mysterious woman Naito is wearing a dark Red Velvet dress, which contrasts with the dark space behind her. In this space, blindfolded eyes and weird limbs give red a strange visual sense.

Anger-here, red stands for anger. Housewife Jenny angrily went to blackmail her husband with a red bag on her back.

Authority-Diane is wearing a bright red kimono robe, holding cigarettes and cups, and her blonde hair, capable posture and eyes show her authority and strength.

Agitation-Diane, wearing a bright red V-neck shirt, stands out with a hint of red against a pure black background, becoming the focus of vision, and her pain and fear are also particularly conspicuous.

Color is the innate inspiration of painter Lynch.

David lynch is a generalist, who can play well in different fields such as scriptwriting, photography and music. However, painting is the starting point of his artistic career.

My mother was Lynch's first teacher when he was young, and let him play freely. He used monochrome lines to draw on paper towels, matchboxes and stationery, and these daily habits became the source of inspiration for his future creation.

Oscar Kokoschka, an expressionist genius painter, was Lynch's teacher when he studied art. In his creation, Lynch was also influenced by British grotesque painter Francis Bacon, Russian abstract painter wassily kandinsky and American painter edward hopper.

These great painters have influenced Lynch's paintings, making his colors extremely strong. Under his brush, red became a symbolic element:

The boy who ran home on the red soil in the painting seems to be Lynch himself.

As surreal as a dream, the thin man in the painting spits out the word "Philadelphia" and holds a red heart in his hand.

In Lynch's view, images are "moving paintings". In the past, dreams were painted. Now, copy these pictures with the camera and put these colorful dreams on the screen.

For example, Lynch's early pioneer experimental film "Six People Are Sick" is a combination of painting and video, which shows Lynch's transformation from painting to video. In four minutes, the story of six patients from vomiting and bleeding to organ decay was told.

The whole movie is like an abstract black-and-white print, with bright red blood coming out of the mouths of six patients, as if to overflow the picture. This intense color processing is as unforgettable as a nightmare.

Today, david lynch is still exploring on his stylized road, and the red filter is still his way of looking at human nature and the world.

Finally, please have a chat. Besides the filmmakers mentioned in the article, which directors are masters of color control?

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