Color Motif: Difference between revisions

A motif is a recurring element within a work, so a color motif is obviously a recurring color within the work. The color may be [[Color -Coded Characters|associated with a character]], place, feeling, timeframe, or even the work overall.

* '''Blue''' is the most common favorite color and can create calmness and serenity, although darker blues are associated with sadness. It is also symbolic of [[Blue Boy Pink Girl|masculinity]] and, interestingly, also [[True -Blue Femininity|femininity]].

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* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has a color scheme based on its desert setting. Blue (for life-giving water) stands for good (the Genie, Jasmine's clothes, the carpet); Red (for the blazing sun) stands for evil (Jafar's cape, Iago, the gem that tempts Abu in the Cave of Wonders); and yellow (for the ever-present sand) is neutral (Aladdin himself, the riches of the Cave of wonders).

* In the 2002 film ''[[Hero (Filmfilm)|Hero]]'', many recurring colors appear. Black is used for mystery, red for deceit, blue for romance, green for memory, and white for truth.

* [[M. Night Shyamalan]]'s films often use bright colors like red and yellow to emphasize the supernatural or otherwise scary or shocking elements in a scene. This is particularly noticeable in ''[[Unbreakable]]'' (which also uses the colors green and purple to isolate the characters played by [[Bruce Willis]] and [[Samuel L. Jackson]], respectively).

* In ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' films, the color orange is a symbol of impending death. Usually, it comes in the form of orange fruit, but even orange clothing and orange decorations are used as foreshadowing towards death.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', all the noble houses [[Colour Color-Coded for Your Convenience|throw their heraldic colours around]] every chance they get. The major players at the beginning of the series are the grim, dour, "[[Meaningful Name|stark]]" Starks whose colours are grey and white, and the rich, opulent Lannisters whose colours are red and gold (which contrast plays into the whole "ice and fire" motif as well).

* There's color symbolism throughout ''[[The Great Gatsby (Literature)|The Great Gatsby]]'', associating white with purity and yellow with corruption, such with the girls with yellow dresses at Gatsby's party. As for his eternal love Daisy, what kind of flower is white on the outside but yellow on the inside?

* Green is used in ''[[The Go -Between]]'' to symbolise Leo's naivety.

* The ''[[CSI]]'' franchise is known for this. The original ''CSI'' has a lot of brown that evokes the desert setting of Las Vegas. ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' has a lot of orange and yellow to evoke the bright, sunny semi-tropics of Miami. ''[[CSI: NY]]'' has blues and grays to evoke the gritty nature of the big city.

** ''[[Persona 3 (Video Game)|Persona 3]]'' had a dark blue motif, presumably because of the dark nature of the game.

** ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'' used a bright yellow motif, indicating how upbeat this game was in comparison to other [[Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise)|Shin Megami Tensei]] games.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: the Last Airbender]]'', each nation has colors and seasons symbolic of it. People of the Fire Nation wear reds, golds, and redish brown, and their season is summer. Earth kingdom residents wear greens, yellow, and browns, their season is spring. The Airbender nomads wear yellow, orange, reds, and blue comes in in the color of their tattoos.Their season is fall. The water tribe wears blues, white, and purple and their season is winter.

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