Emanuel Levy
Cinema 24/7
Updated Feb 5 , 2020
Hitchcock’s color design is always driven by the demands of narrative and characterization.
Richard Allen has observed that Hitchcock’s color designs balance the expressive demands of color with the constraints of realism.
In his movies, bold colors and the contrast of color patterns express symbolically the films’ themes and characters motivations and conduct.
The color red features prominently in several movies, such as The Man Who Knew Too Much and Marnie.
In The Man Who Knew Too Much, red chairs hold the cymbals, red drapes hang over the stage and in the boxes of the assassin and prime minister.
In one shot, Jo is on the right, and the assassin is on the left of a red drape.
The kidnapped boy is held upstairs in a room dominated by the color red.
Hitchcock: Color Design and Characterization–Red
Updated Feb 5 , 2020
Hitchcock’s color design is always driven by the demands of narrative and characterization.
Richard Allen has observed that Hitchcock’s color designs balance the expressive demands of color with the constraints of realism.
In his movies, bold colors and the contrast of color patterns express symbolically the films’ themes and characters motivations and conduct.
The color red features prominently in several movies, such as The Man Who Knew Too Much and Marnie.
In The Man Who Knew Too Much, red chairs hold the cymbals, red drapes hang over the stage and in the boxes of the assassin and prime minister.
In one shot, Jo is on the right, and the assassin is on the left of a red drape.
The kidnapped boy is held upstairs in a room dominated by the color red.