love this detail in the lotf graphic novel, page by page you could see the chud jack getting progressively pinker and pinker the white boy burns im crying the kid just the bubblegum of doom
Yet again I have NOT watched it in full, but from the screenshots I have seen, it feels like blue represents Jack intensity while red represents Simon’s.
get ready for another yap fest
Firstly, a reason it stood out to me was subversion. ☝️Blue is supposed to be a softer color and that REALLY does not align with Jack. His Rude ahh personality, at least. Similarly, red is an aggressive or beastly color, which doesn’t remind me of Simon..like..at all. I love a good twist on colors when it shows difference to the character in play!
Secondly, the colors get more interesting considering the loss of innocence theme. 🤔I already stated red is related to savagery or being inhumane, but I failed to mention that blue is a color associated with conformity, business, and all things acceptable or standard. I think this fits the two’s storylines, as the red for Simon appears when having illusions/distractions from savage allure while Jack’s blue acts as his disguise for civil obedience. (Dare I say Red is the hopeless loss of innocence while Blue is the desperate cover for innocence)
ALSOO these are two types of intensity. I see Simon’s red appear outside of him, whereas Jack literally paints the blue on himself. Additionally, when Simon owns blue and Jack possesses red, these colors now are natural/necessary, which can favor the subversion concept, making that these two literally complement and insult each other as a whole 😭! (To add onto that, Simon’s whole deal with red can be seen as abnormal or supernatural, making that—when their colors switch—blue is reality)
Simon’s diary is red (looking), the ribbon even more so. This peaks my prior thoughts TRUST. 😇 Idk about you but diaries are more professional in here, so it subverts expectations by being the more aggressive color. Diaries are a personal, private piece, however, so now red makes sense as it’s passion and urgency. This is where the loss of innocence comes into play, because diaries mean you’re hiding something. For the duality of their intensities, the diary is Simon’s possession. It’s, yet again, an external form of pressure. When Jack reads Simon’s diary, it’s Jack covering up his nature while being exposed to Simon’s intensity/perspective, which would be “unnatural” to Jack in my theory. Judging from Simon’s little monologues, it seems that this happens outside of the island too.
No clue if this is useless or obvious in the show, but it definitely evolved my view on some on the show’s visual choices (which I have to be honest, I was not a fan of the colors haha)!
I rarely use color theory to actually predict or tell a story but hopefully I’m getting somewhere with this and can prove these colors are here for a reason 💔 (Lastly, fun fact, blue and red are not opposites, just a popular choice to put up. The true opposites are orange & green,, its funny to me because Jack is ginger and Simon likes plants yes thats it LMAO)
