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Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a great movie about death, decisions, and acceptance.
The colors in this movie are specifically situated. I want to look at
the colors in this movie through traditional archetypes.
During the first scene of Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena
Davis) in their house after their death, the light appears to be
an orange hue. Orange represents energy and adventure. Although
the characters do not know it yet, they are about to embark on a
long adventure alongside the living.
When in Saturn with the Sand Worms, the prominent color is
yellow. While this color can represent happy things, it traditionally
represents more negative images: disease, death, alienation, and
madness. In the movie, Adam and Barbara are dead for most of it
and are alienated from the world outside and other people. When
Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) acts like a circus attraction towards
the end, yellow is behind him. Madness at its best. Also, he kills
Charles Deetz’s (Jeffrey Jones) boss and his boss’s wife.
After Adam and Barbara draw the door to get help, they enter the
afterlife services office. The first color shown is green. Universally,
green represents nature. It is natural for people to die; thus, this
color makes sense in this setting. Also, I would argue it is natural
for most people to ask for help, which also makes the color an appropriate
choice.
Most often, Betelgeuse is represented in or around black. He wears
black and white clothes, appears as a black snake on the staircase,
and lusts after the girl in black. Black is darkness, fear, and mystery.
Our main character embraces all of these characteristics.
The other major color that surrounds Betelgeuse is red. After he
goes back to the model, he crashes a red truck. He wears a red shirt
or vest throughout the entire movie. Also, when he goes to “Dante’s
Inferno Room”, the building is glowing red. This color represents
love, passion, anger, and sacrifice. Betelgeuse is passionate about
scaring the living and gets angry when the couple stops him. Both
Betelgeuse and Lydia (Winona Ryder) wear red at their wedding.
Here, she is the sacrifice for Adam and Barbera’s souls. When resurrecting
the two ghosts, the color surrounding the living is blue. Blue
has many, many meanings. It can mean cleansing, rebirth, strength,
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