{"id":8229,"date":"2008-07-14T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:23:12","slug":"redrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"Redrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great post from Jim Emerson about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/scanners\/2008\/07\/the_color_of_blood_a_study_in.html\">the color of red in movies<\/a> and what it signifies &#8211; memorable bloodbaths, and great trivia (the bit about Scorsese and the red at the end of <i>Taxi Driver<\/i> is new to me).  I agree that the kind of rusty red in that culminating shootout is somehow far more disturbing and documentary-like than bright-red would be, which can seem movie-ish.<\/p>\n<p>My first thought having to do with red in the movies is <i>Don&#8217;t Look Now<\/i> (my thoughts on it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6124\">here<\/a>).  Hard to pin down what it is that makes that film so supremely unbalancing &#8230; but the fleeting (and repeated) glimpse of red through the streets of Venice certainly adds to that sense of unease.  Danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great post from Jim Emerson about the color of red in movies and what it signifies &#8211; memorable bloodbaths, and great trivia (the bit about Scorsese and the red at the end of Taxi Driver is new to me). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181783,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/181783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}