The artist of color-Reflections on the film la la land.

The film tells the story of a man and a woman who met, fell in love and broke up. The story is very simple, but the director used colors, songs and dances to play new tricks on the simple story.

Everyone's clothes in the movie are monochrome, and there are no complicated patterns. Although the whole film is divided into four seasons: winter, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the film was shot in Los Angeles, USA, with a temperate maritime climate and four seasons like spring. So the director can't really use climate change to express the variation of the theme. So the film uses different main colors in different seasons to express the feelings and career development of the characters. Of course, such color design also involves the narrative structure of the story. Corresponding to the five stages of the hero and heroine getting to know each other, falling in love, breaking up, being dull and looking back.

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Everything is at a low point in winter, so are the hero and heroine. So, at the beginning of the interview, Mia's clothes and the surrounding environment were blue, just like in the refrigerator.

The only warm color is her home, surrounded by red and pink.

Home is the harbor of the soul and the externalization of the ideal. The cold outside is in sharp contrast with the warmth at home, which sets off her inner fiery and innocence. Sisters also appear in the same color. Even with so many color choices, the director arranged blue for mia. Blue symbolizes melancholy, so the director is using color to match emotions.

At the party, mia wore blue and was out of tune with the warm colors around her. At the end of the party, Mia found that after the car was towed away, the cold light and night environment around her reflected her loneliness and despair to the fullest. Mia walked in despair and finally met two strong red lights. These two red lights not only stimulate the audience's vision, but also hint at what Mia's life is about to usher in. Mia opened the door. In a warm atmosphere, she saw a man in blue playing the piano. Spring is finally coming.

In the film, the man is an unruly character, so his dress is monotonous, mostly white or ivory shirts, sometimes with navy blue or brown suits, which reflects the man's calm and firm character.

However, the hero changed to bright red twice, once at a party in spring, and once when the man joined the band, the red light reflected the man's clothes into red, followed by mia's disappointed expression.

The colors of these two scenes show the protagonist's compromise with the secular world. In sharp contrast to his usual clothes, bright colors are completely out of tune with his personality. So every time the bright color appears, it implies his submission to real life.

With the arrival of spring, the color tone has also changed, which not only improves the saturation, but also uses a lot of warm colors, indicating the germination of love between the hero and heroine. Mia appeared in yellow and became emotional. The scene of two people in the same box is also carefully arranged by the director. Their background is a lot of green, symbolizing spring, hope and vitality, which just corresponds to the bud of their love. Red flowers are behind Mia and yellow flowers are behind men, which also symbolize the little secrets hidden in their hearts.

Then they came to the top of Los Angeles, pressed the road together and danced together. The sky of this lens is colored by digital technology. Here, the director used a cube color scheme. The colors of yellow, green, blue and purple are chosen, giving people a dreamy feeling. Later, the director used a dance under the starry sky to hint at the emotional integration between the two. After sealed with a kiss, summer came.

Summer indicates the love between the two people, and also ushered in the rising period of career. Everything tends to be mature, so the color is bolder and warmer. At the same time, Mia's clothing is also changing with the change of the scene. Every time she changes a scene, she changes a color, and there are no duplicate clothes. At the same time, the color of the room where they live has also changed. Red has become the main color, symbolizing that love and dreams are as warm as fire. Passion has become the main color in summer.

Speaking of rooms, there is a green scene. The first quarrel between two people is in this scene. Green is two-sided, giving people hope, vitality and despair. Both the hero and heroine began to face the pressure of career and hopelessness for the future. Some helpless fragments passed by, and the green curtains seemed to symbolize a sense of crisis and powerlessness.

The fiery fading of summer also takes away strong colors, leaving autumn with colors with low saturation, low lightness and monotonous tone. Mia's clothing also seems to imply that her spiritual world is only black and white, calm and dull, and their life, love and career are also in a depressed state. When they meet again, their clothes become the blue representing rational Mo Landi, and they return from love to simple friendship.

Five years later, the two met again, and music and lighting led a fantastic world, which was not just Hitchcock. In the fantasy world, there is no distinction between spring, summer, autumn and winter, and there is no fixed color to refer to. Everything is colorful and dazzling, just like Van Gogh's paintings. As the music returned to reality, the man continued to play as if everything was a dream. The director showed the real world after the bubble burst. At the end of the song, the two said goodbye respectively. The director used two different lights for men and women respectively, indicating that they are people from two worlds and can never go back.

At the same time, the director also pays tribute to many films and draws lessons from them. For example, "Dancing on the Peak Expressway" borrowed from "Singing in the Rain" and used digital technology to create an artistic effect that can only be achieved in Hollywood studios. There is also the scene of the man walking by the sea, which basically restores the set effect of Singing in the Rain. The whole picture presents a harmonious and quiet atmosphere, showing the joy of men who fall in love. The green light of the curtain also draws lessons from Hitchcock's "Vertigo"

The film tells an old story in a new way, but it is still refreshing. However, the film is not so interesting, its commercial value is reduced, and it is more like a work of art.