Pleasantville Questions Part II

Review your response to the question about the use of black and white in the film Pleasantville.  Now, consider what use the introduction of color has in the film.   

1)  What might color be a metaphor for in the film? 

2)  Compare the use of color in Pleasantville and in The Giver? 

Comments

[Boricua]

Question 1: I think that color might be a metaphor for almost anything can happen if you believe and try new things. Like when Jenny and Skip went to lovers lane and did something that Skip had never done before. After he drops off Jenny off he sees a red rose. Even though there is no color in the sitcom show.

Question 2: The us of color is somewhat similar in the way that is first seen. When jonas first saw color it was something simple. That was the same for Skip because his first time seeing color is seeing a red rose that is how it is similar to the giver in the aspect of color introduction.

[The Mistaken One]

I looked up 'Pleasantville' on youtube, so that's how I know this.

Number 2.
The use or introduction of color in 'The Giver' and in 'Pleasantville' probably mean a new start of life and signs of better days. In both, color appears when the main characters have realized what they must do. Also, it always leads to a happy and non-violent ending. When the boy looks in the tree and sees the red apple he is mesmerized because color is never bad or depressing. I know that even black can brighten up a room with the right attitude. What I mean is, when the main characters begin to understand their surroundings, a new start in thrown in.

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[Iyana Abrams]

Iyana Abrams 6/11/07
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1) What might color be a metaphor for in the film?
The metaphor for color in the film is love. When people loved someone or thought of that person they turn into color.

2) Compare the use of color in Pleasantville and in The Giver?
The comparison between The Giver and Pleasantville was that there was no color. There was a big change in both stories because when people saw color it was so surprising to them. They actually change in attuned. They thought differently of things and got use to the changes in a positive way.

[N.G]

1)Color is a metaphor in Pleasentville because it represents the difference in worlds.

2) The comparison is that the people in The Giver and the people in Pleasantville don't see in color. Jonas was the only person in his society that saw in color and in Pleasentville Jenny is the one who changes there world and turns everything to color.

[Toad]

I think that color in the movie means that time is going by. Also I think it stands for change.

The comparison of color in the book and movie is that color changesw at certain times. In the movie color changes when you figure out who you really are. Then in the book when the boy sees color it makes him feel happy.

[Dannyboy]

Question 1). I think that color symbolizes the changing of society. Kinda like taking a flower out of the dark into the sun. The changing of scene to a better place.

Question 2). The use of color in "Pleasantville" is very similar to the use in "The Giver". In "Pleasantville" everybody had a script to follow. In "The Giver" everyone had an assigned life so to speak. But when the colors start to show up it changes many things. For instance when the town witnessed the first people with color they were fearful. And Jonas was a little bit frightened when he sees flashes of color. In Retrospect the shift from black and white means a change in scene so to speak.

[J.P]

Number 1. Color might be a metaphor for change in Pleasantville. Color would be a metaphor for change because when the characters become colorful, the people have usually had a change in their life.

Number 2. In Pleasantville, the color signifies change, like when the people become colorful they have changed in some aspect of their life. In The Giver, color signifies freedom, because now that Jonas can see color, he realizes that the Elders have controlled the lives of everyone who lives in their community, and one way is not seeing color. But now that Jonas can see color, he can stop the Elders from controlling one aspect of his life.

[I.V.K]

1)What might color be a metaphor for in the film? I think a metaphor for the film is maybe color represents change. If you really pay attention, you notice the people who change the most are the ones who change into colors. The more people who change, the more the town changes all together.

2)Compare the use of color in Pleasantville and in The Giver? I agree very much to what Daniel had to say. In Pleasantville, everyone has a script to follow and its never changed. The same events occur over and over again, day after day.

[Brenda]

#1
I think that people seeing the colors meant that something in them was changing. They were felling different things from what they were supposed to be feeling. It could be a metaphor because they are changes there views of the world and how it is suppose to be like.
#2
In the Giver no one new what a color was or what it was suppose to look like or anything. In Pleasantville they know about colors they have just never seen any. The first color that is first seen in both was the color red. Also in the Giver Jonas was the first one to see the colors and only he and the Giver saw them. In Pleasantville every one started to see them little by little.

[The Mistaken One]

Number One.

The metaphor for color could possibly be racism. The 'colored' term is used and the 'colored' people are shunned from the town. Sounds like racism and segregation to me. The segregational view would be that they burned the 'colored' people's books, paintings and threatened them on a constant basis. Those people were forced to retreat to a broken down soda shop. Sonds like racism and segregation to me. It's also possible that the more the characters break out of the 'Pleasantville' manner, the more they change. Either way, I'm always right.

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