Atonement movie sets tell a story

Recently, my book club read Atonement by Ian McEwan. Afterwards, I felt compelled to see the movie, to see how true to the novel they stayed. Of course, as is often the case with me, I got wrapped up in the set design, color and the subplot it created. Movies are a great way to get ideas for your own decorating schemes, and drives home the point that your environment absolutely sets a mood. To get the scoop, I headed over to my favorite set design site, Set Decorators Society of America. Joy of joys, there was an article about Atonement's sets.

Atonement follows the consequences of an impressionable girl's tragic misreading of events at an upper-class English home in the years leading up to World War II.

“As our story goes through the house, it starts off in the drawing room and it’s all very light and lovely and then as the story progresses during the day, it actually gets darker and darker.”-Production Designer Sarah Greenwood

“The kitchen and the back corridors are all that horrible color of arsenic green, absolutely virulent. We loved it because it had something of the color of poison, but it equally had a verdancy about it, a summer greenness. So we painted everything in Stokesay that green and terrible cream." -Greenwood

Doesn't knowing that make watching a movie all that more interesting? What movies can you recall that really use the sets and color to add to character or plot development?
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