when the director happens to be an expert in colour theory
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Join me as we explore how director Damien Chazelle made use of colours in La La Land. Instead of using the standard emotional connotations for certain colours, Chazelle gives each colour its own thematic resonance and narrative weight, adding an extra layer to the visual storytelling. He uses inspirations ranging from German Expressionism to classical Hollywood to create a film that is not only colourful, but uses these colours for specific purposes.
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No, you’re not. My sister and I ugly cried and will never watch it again, lol. The pain of the loss of your dreams and the feeling of homesick for a life you never had (maybe don’t need) but you THINK you needed if you’d made different choices. It hurts so bad. But their love is beautiful regardless of how it turned out
As a painter who loves use of color, I'm devastated I've never noticed this; on the other hand its so seamlessly woven in all I can really feel is appreciation. Great movie, great video.
the less obvious it is, the better it's integrated in the movie, innofensive
Man! as a Cinema Student that would love to be speciallized in being a Colorist, this video was like a ring to my finger 😩
isnt it the good part tho? when the art evokes something in you not due some technical analysis or knowing its techniques, but by just, being?
We were too focused on this great movie to notice it, the only one I noticed is the green light 8:15 where they sang together, I don't like that colour, it feels very "ghostly", like a horror movie filter into music video. Doesn't match imo
have a look at the starting scene, it always features red, blue and yellow in a certain order! I think it started with a girl in yellow, then we see someone in red, then blue! And so forth during the whole scene, it's so very cool!
Harry potter's color change fits well with the story. It progressively gets darker and darker.
I was gonna point this out too - the first two (even maybe 3 and part of 4) years/books/movie have a very different tone. It’s lighter, the main characters are kids, were entranced by the magic. Then as the war starts, the colors become darker and moodier which completely track the tone and stress of the characters.
exactly! even the logo changes to fit this, and by the end is deteriorating. it’s purposeful and done well, and if i remember correctly, at the very end in the future scene, the vibrancy is starting to show again
yeah the last movie gives solemn vibes to fit with the war theme, and i find that really intriguing. it definitely adds to the enjoyment
half blood prince's color editing is terrible though, they gave it a weird greenish brown sepia filter that makes everything, including hogwarts, the most magical place ever, look pale, flat, and boring. All the movies before and after that look better too so it's really weird that it just suddenly did that then went back to looking normal it doesnt even make sense narratively.
And you'll notice the color is brighter when they go into the Muggle world, and people just go about their lovely days unbothered by the war that's happening in the wizard world. It's absolutely intentional.
I’ve seen La la land so many times and there are still so many details I haven’t noticed. Great analysis
Me, too.
It's just a masterpiece
It’s so good
LA LA is my LIFE
The contrast of colors in old Indiana Jones compared to today is just shocking for all the worst reasons. I think in another 10-20 years we're going to look back on this era as depressingly bland and trying too hard to present "gritty realism" while sacrificing how beautiful the "real world" can actually be.
Exactly my thoughts! They also forgo humour in stressful situations, a number one coping technique for humans of all kinds. It's self-aggrandizing "serious" monotone movies that have stolen most of the joy of cinema. This director has proven it's just not necessary to tell a compelling Oscar-worthy story.
@@happylala33What about Marvel tho?
@@hieroprotoganist3440 Marvel gets a pass in my book , superhero moves are great there is enough stuff in them for adults to have fun but my kids love em so we can enjoy them together.
@@gaddag1477While you are talking like there is no humor on movies nowadays, Isn't the industry oversaturated with marvel like movies with a cringy joke every 30 seconds?
@@hieroprotoganist3440 ye but my kids like the superhero ones they dont watch the “adult” ones.
Now I realize why I loved La La Land so much, apart from the story itself - the colorful palette. Kind of reminds me of why I like Wes Anderson films as well.
yeaaa
am I the only one who sobs with the end of Lalaland? I get such a bittersweet taste with that scene, happy for them but at the same time sad that they parted ways.
No same I cry my eyes out, can't watch it with other people😅
I love how real it is; but reality can be cruel! I cry so much!😂
Man WHAT?!
@@sharonmiller7213 ?
I cried too!! Loved the movie, usually I'm not very emotional irl so when a movie or a show touches my heart, I love it :')
When I saw the argument scene and I noticed how green it was, I immediately thought there must be some reason why they use green. I'm too stupid to read between things, so your video really help me to understand La Land even more. Thank you for making me fall in love with this movie again!
Hey be careful how you talk to yourself! I doubt you're stupid
i dont think you're stupid, we're just not prone to noticing such things. bet the next time you're watching a colourful show (or any show with wonderful colour grading) you'd notice stuff like that! 😉
Hey! For each of us, colors can differ significantly in meaning, and besides, the perception of color is also influenced by its tone. Sensory perception doesn't always help to understand what the author wanted to say.
This is very similar to why I really like Gwen’s dimension in Across the Spiderverse, because they openly and unashamedly use so many colors that accurately convey the emotions of the scene even just visually alone. Pink is a color of feeling love, and when Gwen rushes in to hug her dad, the watercolor style spreads pink. When she’s found and her dad is assuming she as Spider-Gwen is the one who killed Peter, a deep red and black convey harsh, dark, sticky emotions. Every color adds to the emotional value of the scene, and will even change from shot to shot. I love it so much
That scene where she hugs her dad and the palette gets super warm melts me everytime.
@@josiahward4236 absolutely!! It takes me on an emotional ride every time
I really like the movie, and I love Ryan and Emma and their chemistry. But this colour thing makes the whole movie even better 😀 gonna watch it again tonight 😊
Have fun crying
I have to give this movie another try. I love color. Love these two in Crazy Stupid Love.
The first part is also how the movie “Megamind” shows the convertment of Roxxanes trust for the villain who slowly becomes a hero. At the very beginning, Roxxane is wearing a Scarlett Red dress, the in the middle her dress becomes purple. At the end of the movie though, it becomes blue, the colour of the ‘Villain’ who becomes a hero towards the end of the movie. I think this is such a neat detail, it really shows how peoples trust can change just by a period of time😊
i was thinking abot this
Megamind is underrated!
this is exactly why i love la la land so much. feel like we’ve been in a color DROUGHT.
I made a La La Land edit and it was probably the most fun I’ve had creating my edit because I could work the color theory and red blue dichotomy into the edit itself. I hadn’t really appreciated how blue represents mia and red represents seb and when purple shows up vs the two colors clashing against one another until I started breaking down the scenes and reorganizing them to fit my own narrative edit
i need to see the edit
@@zz.des1 its on their channel, the seb x mia one :)
This is why the way Slatburn was filmed was such a breath of fresh air, the colours were so vivid, this analysis explains why the intense colours felt so nostalgic to me.
NOW i know why i love 80s-2000s movies. the colours are so much more vibrant and the cameras had this cool quality to them
Still one of my favourites of all time. Everything about this movie is masterful.
Which one?
This was a phenomenal video. I already liked La La Land but this made me appreciate it in a new dimension. Thank you for making and sharing this.
Same here!
I’ve watched tons of videos on Lalaland and I must say that you’re the one that handled the subject of colors the best. This movie is very special to my heart cause it was like my awakening to cinema. And what really made an impact the first time I saw this movie was the use of colors. I knew it meant something. It reminded me of my French lessons in high school (I’m French) when we had to analyse a text, to see above the story, to pay attention HOW the story was told. So thank you for your fine analysis
I always noticed the colors in La La Land, but I didn't realize the depth of their use. Great video!
Edgar Wright did a great job in 'Baby Driver', with colors and thier symbolism that represents each character. I think he often does that in his films.
Towards the end: "She steps into a purple light!" Crushing as in the movie, very well done!
I literally got tears in my eyes with that scene during this analysis, it's so crushing
babe wake up, they dropped a new "when the directer.." video essay
directer
Very well put together
i remember watching this movie for the first time with my best friend and noticing the incredible use of color theory. truly a masterpiece of a film
The Harry potter movies go from colorful to unsaturated gray colors as the kinds grow up, the magic of childhood starts to fade and the circumstances become more dangerous. Color is still used to set the mood, the atmosphere, of the movies.
This is color symbolism not theory.
that's like half of what color theory is. HOWEVER, my biggest pet peeve is people on tiktok all calling color relativity color theory, it's the worst every time
This video made me almost cry several times. I just LOVE La la land SOO MUCH, because it’s so beautiful in all kinds of ways, for example with colors ❤❤❤❤
2020’s i hope for MORE color
Riddley Scott paid attention in _Napoleon._ Blue filter for European scenes, and yellow filter for the Egyptian desert.
Chris Nolan paid attention to Memento. Black and white scenes to the flashbacks and colored to the not flashbacks
Glad to see Asteroid City mentioned. The amazing use of color was the first thing I noticed when I started watching it.
This is one of my favourite movies ever and I love that I keep finding new cinematographical perspectives in analysis videos like this one, thanks!
La la land is just a cinematic masterpiece. Great video!!
This video blew my mind...wow...thank you for this! La La Land is my favorite movie of all time!
I love when I see people who have such a deep connection to a movie like I do.Loved your video,you did an amazing job
Dude you curate some of the best film analyses that I’ve EVER seen. Please keep it up! You’re gonna be huge.
Ive recently gotten into la la land and its become one of my favorite movies of all time This color analysis of it makes me want to rewatch it for myself and spot the details Great video as always Lawrence
Thanks Ryan
What other films do you think make interesting use of colour?
I watched Zodiac the other day, it made nice use of yellow and blue
Hero with Jet Li had a really interesting colour palette
Kurosawa's Ran
The only one I can think of is "Dick Tracy", but the color is used differently to match the Sunday Comics.
I’m no color theory expert, but no movie uses color better than The Holy Mountain
I’ve watched La La Land years ago, and I’m really glad this video popped up in my feed. Your analysis to this movie makes me want to watch the movie again in a new light.
i thought i couldn't love my favourite movie more than I did, but this video changed that. this was absolutely brilliant, I can't want to watch la la land again with brand new information
Another Emma Stone film with amazing colour palettes was Poor Things. Really helped add to the unnaturalness of all the settings
Oh yes, the colours and sets made it really otherworldly and amazing to look at.
I have thought about the color of la la land so much along the years as I believe there is something there to untangle to make sense on a story that often seems hard to grasp because of all its nuances and complexities and I must say your analisys is the closest I have ever found to mine. I personally agree 100% with everything you explain on this essay as if I would have written it. And I choose to believe you have given it as much thought as I have in all this years because this was uploaded yesterday. In any case, I really enjoyed this and it feels good to be backed up by a stranger on the internet so thank you :D
la la land was one of the big surprise films i enjoyed. such a beautiful picture
Your videos are so well executed and thoughtful. The comments are unbelievably wholesome, which is a nice change. Thank you!
You blew my mind. It's hard to imagine a director truly thinking to this kind of depth for a movie.
This guy's video essays are on such a high level I wonder why he has only shy of 50 thousand subs. I feel this guy is gonna blow up!!!! Amazing work
I could live inside this video. Any discussion regarding La La Land makes me feel like this, actually. Truly love this film ❤
This is a really well made video, a nice change of pace from the typical hyperactive youtubers. I love the fact that a movie, like most medias, can be appreciated and analyzed on different levels, and colors is one of those aspect that is so taken for granted that you don't (consciously) think about it. I will try to pay more attention to it in movie from now on thanks to this video, especially as an artist ahah
Hell yeah! I saw La La Land couple of months ago for the first time and was instantly blown away by the vividness of the film. I've been searching for an analysis and appreciation like this on KZhead for a while and now I see this which aligns with my own analysis. Well done mate!
Very well put together 😊
Unbelievable analysis! I loved every second of it
la la land is literally my all-time fav, never get bored of watching it. the production design, the score, the acting...everything in la la land is a sort of storytelling. damien chazelle, a genius fr.
I've seen others comment this, but so many things I've never realized!! Keep up the awesome work 🔥🎌
Appreciate it!
I was able to follow everything you said and understood everything you explained.This really made my heart beat. I am so invested in colours and it makes so much sense! Loved this video!
Another thing I noticed, they used colors that were contrasting. Like blue and red, and green and purple. Damien Chazelle was really thinking of everything when he was choosing colors, and you can see it.
I love these kind of full analysis over the details Thanks a bunch
I love the use of color in art. I am so grateful for the Impressionists💖✨💫
La La Land is MY ALL TIME FAV FILM. I remember watching it in highschool and bawling my eyes out that they didn't end up together lol. Freaking love the film's color palette though, It's always felt so fitting and I couldn't understand why. I finally can now, thanks to you. Great video!
Man you made me love this movie more than before. Thanks for making this essay!
oh my gosh I’ll never get tired of realising over and over again how amazing this movie is
SPECTACULAR commentary and analysis! No wonder La La Land is one of my favourite movies - it's a story that's told in such a natural way that it's hard to miss. When you deep dive into it, everything is to meticulously planned out and has meaning. This is the pinnacle of hollywood for me. Not flashy eye catching CGI or snappy sex-craved plots thats are popular in today's movies.
this is actually incredible, I love la la land and this video essay is really good, thank you for this !!!
That was such an amazing breakdown. Makes me want to rewatch La La Land even though it broke my heart into a million pieces
this was a beautiful essay! i never watched the film since the genre wasn't my style, so i had no idea how detailed the visual design in it is. kind of a breath of fresh air.
i noticed this a long ago and wondered why there was no video on it, glad to see someone pointed it out
I felt very inspired by your video. The editing is beautiful :) Thank you !
I am also a color enthusiast, and the first time I watched La La Land i was blown away by the color usage and I loved it!
theres always something new to learn about this film. hands down, one of my all time favourites
I took an american cinema class in my semester this year and the film we discussed under the musical genre was la la land and... throughout the movies we've discussed I always go back to this movie and especially this movies soundtrack. and seeing the stuff i've personally recognised abt the color in a youtube video is so mesmerising and proud moment for me.
This was wonderful and made me appreciate this film even more!
This was such a great analysis. I knew colors had their own meaning in this film, but going from vibrant to muted and then back to vibrant by the end was so clever. Also using secondary colors such as purple to represent the combination for both main characters (blue and red) blows my mind. People usually associate red or pink with love but purple is perfect for them because it’s their real combination. I also noticed that she was wearing that yellow dress when the sky was purple. Yellow is opposite to purple
this vid made me cry omg, im already a fan of lala land but this analysis was amazing!! love this channel!
This is a fantastic study, never noticed how color is used like a symbol to represent their dreams and relationship. I think subtly I noticed how all the colors made the beginning feel more dream like but as the story went on and the colors faded it began to feel more real, and that kind of struck me.
I love the use of colour in La La Land. Awesome video!
I always knew the colors had meanings but this blew me away. Makes me love the film all the more❤ It’s truly a cinematic masterpiece!
One of my Fav Movies
This is brilliantly done. Thank you.
i've seen la la land literally 70 times if not more and i never ever linked the colors like this. insightful stuff!
Great break down, your examples were very helpful!
It looks very good but I don't feel it really "tells" a story. Colors are emotional indicators as you suggested, like music, but it's not conveying anything else beyond that and aesthetic, imo.
had me engaged to the very end, great job putting this together!
This is just an amazing analysis of the colour theory of the movie! I have never thought of the colors relating to anything but always love the cinematography of this film. Lalaland is always gonna be my favorite and thank you for this amazing content and analysis. It gave me some great perspectives on the scenes 😊👏
What a wonderful video! I love La La Land and the color of analog film, so I loved this video. Only subbed a few days ago, but I binged quite some videos by you! Keep it up!
Welcome aboard!
Fantastic analysis. Makes me love this movie even more.
I'm literally so glad someone made a video on this because honestly I've noticed it for years and have said it so many times but it seems no one has acknowledged it lol
Outfit styles and color choices are my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE parts of certain movies!!
Phenomenal, time to watch this absolute masterclass of cinema again
Too bad his next film was literal shit
The thing I’ve always loved about this movie is the color themes, but I could never figure out what the meaning was or the intention. Thank you for this.
Vertigo and Funny Face are perfect color stories. LaLaLand is now part of that family. Thank you for this video!
wow! learning all of this about my favorite film gave me literal chills! thanks for the amazing video
its so relieving to hear this articulated so perfectly
my mind was opened by this video
First video I've seen of yours. Probably one of the best video essays I've watched. Subscribed.
I LOVE this film so so much! I loved all the bright colors but never knew the meaning behind the blue, red and purple!
what an amazing video, thank you for sharing and educating us!
Even this video essay makes me devastated abt the ending
I’ve had an absolute dearth of decent video essays on media in my feed of late, and was beginning to wonder if the genre was dead except for the super-long-form ones. Thanks a lot for making this enlightening yet concise video, am looking forward to many more
thank you for this! i saw la la land for the first time recently and couldnt help but notice the significance in color. it was so fun for me to try to dissect what was happening and what every color meant while watching and after i finished the movie!
I’ve noticed this with the Scream Franchise. The first four directed by Wes Craven were very bright and colourful almost like it wasn’t meant to be a horror movie, then the new directors had the same dark palette a lot of modern horror movies use making the ambience a lot more serious
Great Video. Very rarely do I comment on a video but this production was simply worth the time spent in writing this comment!
and i didn’t think i could love la la land much more until now like many others, i never noticed lol!! all i ever thought was "oh that green lighting is nice"