I loved "Hero" too and had been champing at the bit to see it ever since I saw the previews on Kill Bill. I don't think I can bring myself to vid it, though. It's already a vid to me, since I don't know the language, and the voices are just part of the music to me--and I feel like it's a vid already. Go figger.
I think your take on the colors is very interesting. I didn't see it that way, but I'm a westernized American person and have no Chinese historical background at all. After seeing it three times, I put my own spin on the colors, which I think is valid if not as poetic as yours. :)
Red - What didn't happen (a lie, to reach the emperor) Blue - What could have happened (another lie, but a supposition or an explanation) Green - What might have happened (a romantic view, not necessarily the literal truth, but the spiritual truth--metaphor) Black/White/Grey/Yellow - What *did* happen (the truth, and a mournful one at that)
Nevertheless, there are some images in "Hero" that will stay with me for years--the yellow leaves, the green curtains coming down (which I also took to mean that the veil was lifted from Broken Sword's eyes), the red-red-red. Wow.
I thought that the music was a little bit intrusive at some points, and interestingly, I saw the film with two sets of subtitles. The idea was consistent, but the words were not.
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I loved "Hero" too and had been champing at the bit to see it ever since I saw the previews on Kill Bill. I don't think I can bring myself to vid it, though. It's already a vid to me, since I don't know the language, and the voices are just part of the music to me--and I feel like it's a vid already. Go figger.
I think your take on the colors is very interesting. I didn't see it that way, but I'm a westernized American person and have no Chinese historical background at all. After seeing it three times, I put my own spin on the colors, which I think is valid if not as poetic as yours. :)
Red - What didn't happen (a lie, to reach the emperor)
Blue - What could have happened (another lie, but a supposition or an explanation)
Green - What might have happened (a romantic view, not necessarily the literal truth, but the spiritual truth--metaphor)
Black/White/Grey/Yellow - What *did* happen (the truth, and a mournful one at that)
Nevertheless, there are some images in "Hero" that will stay with me for years--the yellow leaves, the green curtains coming down (which I also took to mean that the veil was lifted from Broken Sword's eyes), the red-red-red. Wow.
I thought that the music was a little bit intrusive at some points, and interestingly, I saw the film with two sets of subtitles. The idea was consistent, but the words were not.
--and all of this before a cup of coffee. Go me!