文档介绍：Praise for
IF IT’S PURPLE, SOMEONE’S GONNA DIE
Patti Bellantoni’s If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die has given us a highly entertaining
exploration of the world of color and its impact on our emotions. Told through
a careful analysis of motion pictures that have used color to enhance or define
their characters or dramatic needs, we are given a lively and insightful view of our
reactions to the film experience.
Leading us gently but firmly through places we may have taken for granted, we
find revelations that can be of real help to readers who use color to shape emotional
responses to concepts, as well as physical environments. We can never again take
the world of color for granted.
—Robert Boyle, four-time Oscar-nominated Production Designer:
North by Northwest, The Birds, The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof.
A wonderful idea and very impressive! Patti’s book shows the importance of color in
developing both character and story.
—Henry Bumstead, two-time Oscar-winning Production Designer:
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting, iven, Mystic River.
We see color—Patti Bellantoni feels color. She is passionate about how we (the audi-
ence) are affected by the use of color as an emotion in film. This book pulls me back
into my favorite films and helps me look at them in a new way. The book is a first of
its kind and a great asset for our students on the impact of cinematography and
production design.
—Judy Irola, ASC, Head of Cinematography, USC School of Cinema-Television
Bellantoni’s evidence is confident and her examples are authoritative. Like Robert
McKee’s Story Seminars, hers is a breakthrough concept.
es a point, as Bellantoni spins example after example, where it all sud-
denly clicks—the use of color in motion pictures is not just a happy coincidence, but
a conscious artistic choice that wafts with concrete meaning through all of the film’s
language. Unconscious and primitive in many respects, conscious and sophisticated
in man