An Analysis of Narrative Structure and Colour Components in Almodóvar’s Movies

• Main Authors: Keng, Wei-Tse, 耿維澤
• Other Authors: Juan, Lu-Yin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14877275497136794837

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 資訊與設計學系碩士班 === 97 === Watching movie is one of the major activities of people in Taiwan and all over the world. Movie is also an important cultural industry. It generates lots economic activities including film production and entertainment consumption. Besides, movie can propagate culture to other countries and also raise tourism industry. This research chooses three films “Volver”, “All about my mother”, and “Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown” directed by a famous Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar as samples to explore the image attributes created by him. This study is aimed at conducting an in-depth research on two major aspects: narrative structure in his story and colour components in his movie. Narrative analysis method will be applied to analyze the characters of movies and their life experiences, the descriptive method, style design and colour design and to discuss the identities in the movies. The semiology and structuralism would be also used to find out the relations between Almodóvar’s styles and special properties of his movies. Twelve female roles and seventy-one frame pictures are selected to understand colour components in Almodóvar’s movie and the research findings are as follows: 1. The motif in Almodóvar’s movies is mainly about tests and suffers in women’s life. The movies have put focus on how women conquer their tests by female friendship at the end. 2. The main female roles in three films all have positive but different personality. The differences among these characters are expressed by their costume. 3. Colour harmony is achieved by female roles in colourful costume in Almodóvar’s movie. 4. In “All about my mother” and “Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown”, Almodóvar shows “play within the play” to re-narrative the emotion of character and uses colour to build mood in the movie. The research found spirits in Almodóvar’s movie has earned good appraisal all over the world. Almodóvar is not a famous director in Taiwan but his work deserves further study.