Cinematograph in Amelie

Jean Pierre Jeunet’s film 2001, Amelie, is about a girl called Amelie who works as a waitress in Paris. Her life changes around when she returns a box of childhood treasures hiding behind a wall to its grown up owner. Amelie sees the happiness of the person she returned the box to and decides to straighten out other people’s lives by making it better or sometimes by making it worse when she thought the person deserved it. Jeunet conveys the sense of reality and fantasy with the use of colors. In the scene that the narrator is telling the viewer about what Amelie likes, Jeunet uses the colors black, green and red.
The first shot of the scene begins with Amelie in the movie theater. The camera starts off with a close-up shot of Amelie’s face and it slowly pans across the people’s face sitting behind her. The seats in the movie theater are bright red and the people’s clothing is mostly green. The colors red and green give the viewer a sense of fantasy and fairy tale. Fairy...