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Frivolous Friday – Movie Blood

January 27, 2017 by Paul Leave a Comment

At the moment we are on holiday in Los Angeles. We visited Universal studios and Warner Brother studios during our stay. We learnt some interesting things abut how blood is portrayed in the movies.  Most action movies and thrillers these days have scenes where copious amounts of blood flows freely. I am a fan of Game of Thrones and they certainly don’t hold back with the blood in that show.

Chocolate blood

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In the early days of black and white movies, blood did not need to be red. In the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho, blood was represented by using chocolate sauce as it had a similar consistency to blood.

Plastic blood

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In the props department at Warner Bros Studio they had pools of blood made out of plastic. Angela is holding one of the props in this picture. When thrown on the ground it looks like a pool of blood, ideal for a murder scene.

Strange blood

img_4243I also learnt that some of the super heros and their arch enemies have rather unusual blood. The Joker in the Batman movies has green blood. Not sure what the chemical is in this that carries oxygen, may be it is chlorophyll!

 

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