Natural Born Killers - Cut Scenes

Just had an idea for The Lost Ones. I recently acquired a new favorite film, Natural Born Killers written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Oliver Stone. After watching a few times over, I've noticed a couple of really impressive visual effects that we could maybe mimic in our film. The first one is the cut scene.

One of the many cut scenes from Natural Born Killers 
showing protagonist Mickey covered in blood.

Cut Scenes

Mickey walks through a pharmacy, covered in bright
green light.

Several times during the film, the camera cuts away from the narrative and for less than a second, shows a picture of the character (see left) expressing their inner emotions. I feel this may be a nice effect to use in our film as it could show the mans happy exterior when talking to Violet is actually covering up his inner emotions and his ultimate realization that Violet is no more.

Colour

In some of the later scenes in the film, noticeably the dungeon scene and the pharmacy scene (left) very vivid colours are used to express emotions and themes (being trapped etc). I like the thought of using blue lighting to represent the innocence of Violet and the couples love, and vivid red to express the mans ultimate anger and sadness.


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