The red and white history from "Star Wars 8"

[Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi] read it.

What impressed me the most was the final showdown on the salty ground like a white canvas.

Behind you is a stretch of mountains, and in front of you is a vast white.

Fighter jets glided over the white salty ground, wiping out flakes of surging red.

The remaining rebels were forced by the First Army to a new planet called CRAIT. You can't escape, just fight to the death with old fighter jets.

Flying, firing, fighting, falling, the fighters danced in a white world with the blazing heat of blood and fire.

The red and white history from "Star Wars 8"

It's like a drop of blood red on the snow, like red ink sprinkled on a pure white scroll.

The final showdown was filmed in the Uyuni salt lands of Bolivia.

The salt is covered with a red mineral layer, which is why it has the amazing effect in the movie.

Director Ryan Johnson's excellent use of red and white and his grasp of the dynamic effect of color made me look very exciting in front of the screen.

Even for this paragraph, I also want to give the movie a big hit.

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Red and white are a great matching color.

Why you say that, just listen to these familiar words.

Red and white events, red and white song clubs, red and white races, red and white machines, red and white roses...

In ancient times, we called the marriage of men and women a happy event, and the funeral of the death of a long-lived person is called a happy funeral, which is collectively called a red and white happy event.

Qing Yang Jingting said in "Dumen Miscellaneous Songs, Fashion Gates, Zhidan":

It is not easy to stay at home in Chang'an, and it is frugal to hold on to a little self-consolation; I am most afraid of human feelings and red and white things, and it is difficult to know a single thing.

It is the earliest available source.

The fifty-fifth episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber" also says:

Or there are weddings and funerals red and white and other things, Mrs. Wang He Ti greeted and sent, and there was no time for socializing.

This shows the wide range of usage.

Before this usage, poets had long liked to match red and white in poetry.

For example, Tang Hanyu's "Cold Eclipse Sunrise Tour" poem Yun:

I saw peaches and pears again, and they opened red and white like competition.

Tang Dumu's "Journey to the Past" poem Yun:

Half awake and half drunk swimming for three days, red and white flowers bloom in the rain.

In the "Tale of the West Chamber", The Jin ren Dong Xieyuan even used "red and white" to describe the natural beauty of women.

There is no jewelry lead, naturally there is no bullet. Light clothes, dressed up like the law, born more red and white, how to draw Zhou Fang's Danqing?

The Japanese Red and White Song Festival (japanese full name Red and White Song Battle) is a grand event held on the evening of December 31 every year, known as "do not look at the red and white but not the year".

They will divide the singers into two groups according to gender, red (female artist) and white (male artist), and the two sides will alternately appear to complete the party in the form of competitions.

The grand event of this form of competition is called the "Red and White Song Festival", which is derived from the collective name of the swordplay and other competitions in Japan since the Meiji era, the "Red and White Competition".

Later, on the occasion of sports competition, the confrontation between the two sides was called the "red and white game", which also originated from this.

Red and white machine (Japanese version of FC, American version of NES) everyone is very familiar, is a generation of nostalgic things.

In the 1980s, the first generation of home consoles released by Nintendo was named "Red and White Machine" because of its red and white appearance.

And the allusion to the red and white roses, the most famous is Zhang Ailing's famous quote:

Married to a red rose, over time, the red changed a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one was still 'bright moonlight in front of the bed';

Married to a white rose, the white is a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, and the red is a cinnabar mole on the heart.

Since then, red and white roses have become a kind of secret name for men to the woman in their hearts.

In fact, speaking of red and white roses, there was also the civil war between the Lancastrian and Yorkese supporters in England in the 15th century.

Because of the family crests of the two royal families, the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York, the history is called the "Red and White Rose War".

Red is violence, it is danger, it is restlessness, it is desire.

Dazzling red is the color with the strongest visual stimulus, it is the closest to the tone of the sun and the flame, symbolizing life, blood, enthusiasm, impulsivity and warmth.

The modern abstract painter Kandinsky once said in his book On the Spirit of Art:

The infinite warmth of red does not have the frivolous appeal of yellow, but it expresses the inner firmness and powerful temperature.

It matures alone with radiant light, never blindly expending its own energy...

The color vermilion gives people a sharp feeling, it is like hot running molten steel, and the cold water will solidify as soon as it is poured.

Color was originally just a physical phenomenon.

However, after human experience and application, it has become more and more emotional and psychological complex.

Compared with the direct impact that red often brings to people, white appears more precipitated and light.

White is pure, it is transparent, it is calm, it is rational, it is blank, it can be all.

Therefore, white often appears as an auxiliary color of red, and in the white background, the emotional feeling of red is more and more prominent.

The most impressive thing about this, of course, is the 1973 sword blade [Shura Xueji].

Xueji, dressed in white and a kimono, shuttles through the film for revenge, and when killing people, a bamboo umbrella is hidden in the umbrella, and the sword is hidden in the umbrella, which is fatal.

The snow was white, and the white clothes were dancing, reflecting the hot blood, the red heat and madness, jumping in front of the eyes.

It's no wonder quentin pays homage to the film in Kill Bill, with Liu Yuling dressed in a white kimono and a duel with Uma Thurman in the snow.

In this sense, the final showdown of "Star Wars 8" was also successful here.

Not only the beautiful shooting of the duel, but also the emotional atmosphere conveyed by the red and white combination.

White is used as a background board to directly show a small area of red, and sometimes there is a sense of weirdness and strange atmosphere.

For example, the famous [2001: A Space Odyssey] composition.

The almost all-white space station scene, with a low roof but a vast space, stands in it with a strangely shaped red chair, very eye-catching and very avant-garde.

The sense of technology, the sense of coldness, and the advanced consciousness of the design of the futuristic world bring a strange feeling in the overall atmosphere.

Another example is Takashi Miike's "4.6 Billion Years of Love", where the film opens with a man's solo dance.

The man's upper body is intricately tattooed, and the lower body is wearing a red striped skirt, dancing in the nameless white space with dappled lights.

There is no name, no explanation, no meaning, but the overall tone of the film's weirdness is thus laid.

The three elements that make up color are: hue, saturation, and lightness.

Hue is the actual color; saturation is the intensity of the color, whether it is bright or dull, and the lower the saturation, the closer it is to gray.

And colors with low brightness are darker than colors with higher brightness.

Red has a lower luminosity of all hues and is a color with a relatively high saturation;

White, on the other hand, is the brightest and lightest color.

Therefore, using white as an auxiliary color to highlight red, or dissolve red, is a norm. But what if you use it the other way around?

The most impressive was Bergman's [shouts and whispers].

In the room with red walls and red carpets, women in white dresses shuttled back and forth.

The space is closed and dense, and the emotions are also depressed, and there is no exit.

The space suppressed by red symbolizes the inner world that has been swallowed up, suffering and trapped here.

In [4.6 Billion Years of Love], matsuda Ryuhei's space is already small enough, and the composition deliberately amplifies the presence of the chair and piles things up in the foreground.

The space where the characters are located is constantly squeezed; the sense of despair of Long Ping's characters has reached an unprecedented level.

There are also often such compositions in the "Wolf" of The Sōkawa Shihana, especially at the beginning and end.

The heroine tries to change her fate through plastic surgery, but in the end she fails.

Pure white is constantly infected and compressed by red, which becomes a metaphor for the fate of the heroine.

In another case, the red sense of lust is also easily reflected.

For example, in [American Beauty], in the sexual fantasy of the middle-aged man Lester, the girl's naked body is surrounded by flower petals;

In Almodóvar's [Law of Desire], the red and white bed sheet background becomes a stage for the two male protagonists to steal the joy, and the red desire spurts out, and the two ends of the picture are also embellished with blue embellishments.

There is a saying that "koi begins with red and white and ends with red and white", which originally meant that people choose a preference for koi.

But now, this sentence can encompass almost all the charm of red and white colors.

The color scheme of red and white is simple, but it also has a simple depth. The so-called avenue to simplicity, back to basics, red and white deserved.

In "Star Wars 8", Luke Skywalker eventually died on this red and white battlefield.

Not only was the shot beautiful, but it also brought me to tears. One of my favorite scenes of the year.