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why is the film called The Oranges?


Why is the film called The Oranges?

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Orange, East Orange, West Orange in central NJ where the movie took place.

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Word associations or verbal synesthesia between concepts of color and emotions were studied in Gersnany, Mexico, Poland, Russia, and the United States. With emotion words as the between-subjects variable, 661 undergraduates indicated on 6-point scales to what extent anger, envy, fear, and jealousy reminded them of 12 terms of color. In all nations, the colors of anger were black and red, fear was black, and jealousy was red. Cross-cultural differences were (a) Poles connected anger, envy, and jealousy also with purple; (b) Germans associated envy and jealousy with yellow; and (c) Americans associated envy with black, green, and red, but for the Russians it was black, purple, and yellow. The findings suggest that cross-modal associations originate in universal human experiences and in culture-specific variables, such as language, mythology, and literature.


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I think it is a reference to the expression "apples and oranges", both families are cut from the same cloth, ie "oranges and oranges".

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Wow, I think you're actually right! I wondered the title too and knew that it took place in Orange, NJ. But your explanation is actually deeper. Cool!

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Yes, and the definite article was added to make clear families were referenced, not just fruit. But since these two familes, sort of, go to war, it lends itself to concluding that there's also a reference to the War of Oranges somethere in there.

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