Just curious but how did they come up with the title "A Patch Of Blue"?
shareI think because blue is a colour she remembers from before she was blind. She goes to Mr Faber something like, "the sky's blue isn't it...I remember blue". It symbolises freedom? Not too sure on anything more profound!
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Director Guy Green said that it came from the blue patch of a British army unit. Because of their insignia, the unit was refered to as "the patch of blue". When trying to think of a title they linked that up with the part of the screenplay referring to her remembering the color "blue" and decided to use the phrase for the title. As one of the few B&W features made in the late 60's it is interesting that it has a color in its title and that the director's name is a color.
The film was adapted from a book "Be Ready With Bells and Drums", whose title was later changed by the publisher to "A Patch of Blue" as a way to capitalize on the film's publicity campaign.
nice post! that is interesting!
shareJust for clarification, which unit of the British Army is the blue patch from? Any idea?
Also does the first line of the novel have anything to do with it too:
"If I hear a person say, 'Man! That's a blue sky—for sure,' I know exactly how the sky looks."
Hi all,
How about . . . because the park - where Selina knows the sky is blue - represents a patch of color, excitemeent, freedom, love, etc., in her otherwise grim and dreary existence?
Or is that too much of a stretch?
Well, I think you all are wrong. You didn't read the book the movie was based on, did you?
"A patch of blue" comes from one of things Selina remembered from her childgood before she got blind. When she was small girl, too small to watch through window she could only see a patch of blue sky above windowsill, and that was one of very few colours she remembered. She said that during one of conversations with Gordon.
Sry for my English
This was answered in the first response. And it was spoken to Ol' Pa, not Gordon.
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