Did anyone else notice that there was a ton of the color green in this movie? The mansion, everyone's clothes, etc. I was thinking that it represents envy and the world of the rich.... when Finn becomes a fisherman and then moves to New York, he's wearing more blues/grays... and as soon as he gets involved with Estella again it all goes back to green.
Anyone else notice this / have any thoughts?
I noticed it too, within the first few minutes. All of young Finn's clothes were in shades of green. What the point of it was, I'm still trying to decipher!
shareI love the green running throughout the film. :)
A Little Princess has green in it too...which is by the same director.
I noticed Ray...not by the same director... has a lot of green in it too.
there was this "Making Of" shown on tv before it was showed to the cinema..
i remember the director Alfonso Cuaron said that he really intended the movie to be filled with green dresses and shirts.. I remember him saying that its his favorite color. even with his other works you can see some green themes going..
Green takes on a lot of different meanings in literature, and I'm thinking a lot of it translates on screen. Envy--wanting what you can't have, greed--wanting more and more just because (more Estella than Finn), rebirth--becoming new people for both of them, nature--they met in a garden, meet again in a park, meet again at the sea. Maybe it was the director's favorite color and this is all coincidental, but...that's my take.
shareI bought an ex-rental VHS copy from blockbuster video in early 2001.
The box video box for it was green instead of black. It looked pretty cheap actually. I loved the film though, a sexy, sentimental little late-ninties oddity.
From the movie Trivia:
Alfonso Cuarón always use the green (he even auditioned green eyed girls for A Little Princess (1995)) as the main color of its movies. He uses red and orange (complimentary and opposite colors) to make some remarks.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119223/trivia
at the end of the movie they are not wearing green anymore. at least not finn and estella (i think her daughter was)
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The only thing, and I feel they stumbled upon, that was true of this dumb banal ideal; was he offered up his pack of KOOL cigs, that was green, maybe a hanker back to their past at the club in NY. But no way in hell you could get away with smoking poor tobacco in that kind of club. Menthol. Adios!!!!!!!!! ha ha.
shareI remember I studied several versions of Great Expectations in literature at school, and with this one the teacher theorised that the green was meant to symbolise life, or something.
Like, how there is so much green (life) around Ms. Dinsmoor's house, while she isn't living in her house.
If that makes sense...
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yea it's called art direction.
shareIt was simply the director's favorite color truth be told x)
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Green has always been related to "hope", and Stela is basically that to Finn in the movie
"at the end of the movie they are not wearing green anymore. at least not finn and estella (i think her daughter was"
Finn is wearing a green shirt at the end of the movie.
The Green theme was very un-understandable ...!!! really ...She is wearing Green -with different shades- throughout the movie , if it was to represent being a "Snob" then why he was wearing a green shirt at the end !!! I couldn't understand why the director was using it at all either ..If it was his personal favourite colour , it was such a childish touch to use it it in the movie like that ...and the great novel which is one of the most beautiful, vivid books you can ever read on your life ...He made a freak of it with the most wrongly used green!!!
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