I enjoyed this movie but 1 major flaw its shot in black and white now if u go to all the bother of filming in the Amazon u would expect to see all that in glorious color not a single shot of a bird etc,why B+W ???
shareB&W makes contrasts stand out more.
B&W images often seem eerie, almost dreamlike, which fits in with the subject matter of this movie.
I'm pretty sure the primary reason was so that the colourful shots of space and time at the end are more effective, rewarding, and closer to what the character is experiencing, and it worked wonderfully. Very transcendental.
He is not coming back. He has forgotten me.
The director discussed this in an interview:
The explorers' photographs were the principal influence, images in black and white, plate photography, almost daguerreotypes that they took. What you see is an Amazon that's completely different from the one now. You can see all the exoticism, all the exuberance. It feels like another world, another time. Being there I realized it wasn't possible to reproduce with any fidelity the color of the Amazon. There's no filter or camera or oil that lets you reproduce its significance. I felt that to do it in black and white, to get rid of colors, would activate the audience's imagination. Viewers would add the colors in their mind and these imagined colors would be more real than whatever we could reproduce. This imagined Amazon is more real than the actual Amazon.
http://www.vice.com/read/embrace-of-the-serpent-is-a-violent-psychedelic-film-about-the-colonization-of-the-amazon
Why Oh Why didn't Leonardo Da Vinci use colour pencils when he did his sketches? They would have looked lovely.
shareBecause they were just that sketches, I have never seen sketches done n colour hav u?
shareI have never seen sketches done n colour hav u?