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Tarantino films: the “white” of emotion

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Many people associate the color white as the color of innocence, peace, and virtue. Scientifically, the color white is defined as the color the human eye sees when it looks at light that contains all the wavelengths of the visible light spectrum at full brightness and without absorption. White does not have any hue. Because white encompasses all colors, it is essentially the universal color of the world, it can blend and match with any color without displeasing the human eye. I associate Quentin Tarantino’s movies with the color white; not because they are pure or give people good feelings, but because he encompasses every emotion known to man in one sitting and somehow makes all of those emotions blend together on an emotional roller coaster. Tarantino is the “white” of human emotions when it comes to his movie experience.

My vine is only a small presentation of how a person may react throughout a Tarantino film. One minute a viewer is laughing from something a character did or said and the next they are sporting a look of disgust from their seat because someone’s head just got blown off. In Tarantino’s films there seems to be six emotions that he really portrays, just as there are six common colors in the light spectrum (there is debate on whether indigo should be on the ROYGBIV scale or not).

According to Paul Ekman, there are six distinct facial expressions that convey emotions that are famously known around the world. These emotions are not shown with any verbal communication: sadness, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, and anger. All of these emotions are encountered at least one time throughout a Tarantino film.