How The Mood Of The Inventor Is Gray

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More, directed by Mark Osborne, is a stop motion film that came out in 1998. The story follows an inventor in a city that is dominated by the product “get happy”. The inventor, who is obviously not too pleased with the way his bland life is playing out, goes within himself to find a new meaning to his profession. However, the inventor discovers that a life that appears colorful can lose its appeal all too easily. The film plays on color in order illustrate mood and the progression of attitude. Opening the film is a dream sequence, a distorted image of children playing on a merry-go-round. The children are colorful and laughing , symbolizing hope and imagination, but they are also unfinished. Everything surrounding them is black; there is …show more content…

The grey tones are there to demonstrate the inventor being stuck in this state of constantly in between success and being unhappy or a “grey area”. The inventor is grey, the children are grey, the city is grey, and everything is grey at the start. Grey is used every time the inventor finds himself stuck in this middle area. When the inventor arrives at the factory where he works, the color shifts slightly to a blue-grey. The blue being introduced shows him transitioning into a new state of mind. He is tinkering with the “get happy” invention and his brain starts going to a place of imagination. Eventually, he is fed up with his job and goes home and invents “bliss”, a new and improved version of “get happy”. “Bliss” is the same goggles, but with the colored gel that he gets from his stomach, also known as his drive or fire in his belly. The goggles make the world appear bright and full of different colors and possibilities. The intention of the color is to make the user see the world from a different perspective, one of happiness (which is what the color represents). This new invention is better that “get happy” because the inventor put his own personal drive into the invention. The invention has someone’s intentions of being happy inside; therefore the distorted reality appears more

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