Movie World Symbolism

I would say this film has an overall blueish hue to it. Most of the scenes are dominantly cool colors including most of the costuming. Lina is seen in more cool colors than warm. We see her in blue and green dresses as well as some warmer, pink toned dresses. When it starts to get into the more seriously themed scenes, we see warmer colors start to take over both in the costuming and in the overall hue of the scene. The backgrounds in most scenes are full of more muted colors, and the subject or main focus of the scene is brightly colored. This can be seen when we first see Kathy dancing at the party. Most everything in the background is more dull and muted, but the girls are dressed in bright pink uniforms. We also see the overall tone change when we move into the “movie world.” The colors change to bright, dominant reds, yellows, and oranges with some contrasting cool colors mixed in sparsely. We can also see colors used pretty symbolically during certain parts of the film. A few examples that come to mind happen in the “movie world” Broadway scene. Gene Kelly’s character is dressed in bright yellow to show his optimism and enthusiasm. When we meet the new female character, she is dressed in bright green, maybe to form her into a symbol of lust or greed.
This movie shows the difficulties that the crews faced while making this transition. It was seen as terrible at first by the studios. They thought it was going to be the death of film when it actually transformed into what we now know as our modern day film. Singin’ in the Rain definitely exaggerates that point, but it shows the ins and outs of the transition stage pretty well. They had to worry about how the voices would sound and how the extra sound effects would work together. The whole industry had to update their technology to compensate for this huge