Question

Which of the following BEST explains the reason for this contrast between light and dark used in Orson Welles' A Touch of Evil? A. The contrast suggests good and evil. B. The contrast highlights the more famous actor. C. The contrast is meant to imitate natural light. D. The contrast is accidental because it is in black and white.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. The contrast suggests good and evil.

Explanation:

The story happens in Los Robles, a dingy Mexican-American bordertown ("bordertowns draw out the most exceedingly bad in a nation"). It's a position of bars, strip clubs and massage parlors, where music spills onto the road from each club. In the opening shot, we see a bomb set in the storage compartment of a vehicle, and afterward the camera cranes up and pursues the vehicle down a portion of seamy customer facing facades, before skimming down to eye level to get a walking couple. They are love birds, Mike and Susan Vargas (Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh); he's a Mexican medication authorization official.

Answer 2

A. Touch of evil should be the correct answer