The color of blood: A study in scarlet

Posted on July 18, 2008 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments

Jim Emerson takes us through the history of blood in Cinema in this fascinating article from his Scanners Blog.

…Red is the color of alarm. Perhaps because it is the color of blood. Over the years, that color has changed, along with our taste in blood. In movies, I mean. What was once alarmingly “realistic” now looks either stylized (if it’s a good movie) or fakey (if it’s not so good). When Neil Sedaka and Elton John sang about “Bad Blood” in 1975, maybe that’s what they really had in mind (because, after all, who knows what “Doo-ron, doo-ron, dit-dit-dit-di ron-ron” was supposed to mean? Apart from the reference to the Crystals).

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