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Director Chloé Zhao discusses her film 'Hamnet,' delving into the symbolism of the colors red and blue to represent the characters' core polarities of earth and sky. She also reveals how this storytelling technique connects 'Hamnet' to her previous Marvel film, 'Eternals.'
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00:00I love the role that color plays in this movie, especially the color red.
00:04I was wondering if you could just speak to the symbolism and how it helped you tell the story.
00:10Archetypal characters and symbols and colors are really important in my storytelling.
00:17So this is the second time I have given the main characters colors.
00:24Internals, I did the same thing. So they were throughout the whole film.
00:27And for Will is blue and for Agnes is red, because blue is the upper chakra.
00:33So it's the intellect, right? The blue is the throat chakra.
00:35And the third eye is blue and sort of a light blue and turquoise and indigo.
00:43And so that's where he is. You know, he's the sky.
00:47And red is the color of the root chakra. It's a color of, you know, the beating heart.
00:54So it's much more in the body and is the lava in the center of the earth as opposed to
01:00the heavens and sky.
01:02So they represent these two polarities.
01:04So they're lines.
01:04I think the ticks look.
01:06Well, you know, they're growing up, they're all ready.
01:06What the lines are, because all the lines around, they're not in the sky, but they're low.
01:07You

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