Any Colour You Like
The text starts from some observations on the role of color as an element of the language of cinema. In a particular way, two films are compared: Ran by Akira Kurosa and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring by Kim-duk KIm. The two films show how color can take on a narrative character, but according to two different point of view. The modern idea of color is clearly expressed in the first: the white light is split through Newton's prism and generates the primary colors: origin of the story and determination of the role of the characters. Pre-modern colors are expressed in the second film: they cannot be split because they belong to the physicality of things and cannot be mixed because their nature is chemically different. This difference exists even if we extend our observations to the world of materials. The prevalence of surface values brought into the project world has a perfect simulation situation of different materials that have a completely different nature inside. The text develops these considerations, showing how in a prevalence of the surface value of things.