Color Theory and Wes Anderson’s Style: Sad Characters in a Colorful World
With such bright and saturated fairy tale color palettes, Wes Anderson movies can touch on deep, existential issues without bumming people out. And if it weren’t for the dramatic content, the exaggerated colors would be unbearably optimistic and cheerful. In standard film theory, color in film is usually seen to “support” the tone of the subject matter, but Wes Anderson movies complicate those expectations. ∗
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Sabran Berethnet from The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
(aka one of my favorite books in a while - it’s got like everything I love. go read it right now.)
Meg: Ead can’t be good at everything. Maybe she’s a bad kisser.
Sabran: No, she’s good at that too.
Meg: What?
Sabran: What?
오징어 게임 (2021) – Kang Sae-Byeok and Ji-Yeong
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like i know everyone’s like heliotrope for laura lee (eternal love yada yada yada) but i never made that connection initially bc laura lee seems to be in (mostly) in pastel pinks and yellows and her in heliotrope felt less significant (like the small flowers in her dress during the crash or wtv) but it probably means that lottie pays attention to laura lee more than the average viewer,,,, anyway the real question is has anyone made a whole think piece on laura lee matching lottie’s medication colors in the baptism scene
anon i love you for this
laura lee's style is so important to me actually. starting with the fact that on the pilot she literally wear a yellow. jacket. and i don't know about you but i think they could've made the "super religious girl" wear more subdued/solemn/sober colors and clothes. instead laura lee is so bright. she's cheerful yellow, baby blue, pretty pink! there's something important and gay there, okay?
and now lottie paying attention to the little details about laura lee? yeah! absolutely! she knows the exact name of the shade of purple in the little flowers of one of her dresses. totally normal and platonic behavior there miss matthews!!
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this is... this is actually crazy okay? this is insane stuff. this is the kind of thing that will make me lose my mind and i REFUSE to believe this is a coincidence okay?!
it's about lottie needing something or someone to help her deal with her visions, with her mental health, with everything. the pills controlled her visions, laura lee explained them. when lottie lost the pills and thought she would lose herself she found laura lee instead (and lost her too oh my god). the comfort, the relief, the trust she put on laura lee. she used to rely on her medication now she relies on laura lee. the two things that could soothe her mind but in very different ways!! and i'm not exactly saying laura lee was the right answer but it's about the way lottie held onto her in these trying times!!!!
Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu The Bear, Season 3 (2024) costume design by Courtney Wheeler
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The Priory of the Orange Tree Quotes
“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.” p. 109
“We are charged for today, not for yesterday.” p. 139
“Ghosts were the voices the dead left behind. Echoes of a soul taken too soon.” p. 146
“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed — but never think that you are the night.” p. 203
“Let us not speak of death when there is still so much life to be lived.” p. 346
“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.” p. 536
“Fair roses have grown from twisted seeds.” p. 542
“My hearts knows your song, as yours knows mine.” p. 615
(These page numbers are from the paperback)