“Rooty Toot Toot” uses bold, vibrant colors with high contrast flat, non-naturalistic color fields rather than gradients. The film only uses brown, off-whites, deep reds, purples, blues, yellows, and blacks. The characters are extremely exaggerated like the mistress singer and the lawyer for the plaintiff. They are also bold with their dramatic poses, being shown from all angles. Each character has its own color palette and personality shown in the voice actor but also their facial expressions and movements. Character movements are precisely timed to the jazz soundtrack, creating a visual choreography where actions pulse with the music even more showing you their personalities and really bringing the story to life. I think these stylistic choices definitely effectively tell the story because it is simplistically complicated; it’s able to show you the story of a woman who killed her husband because he was cheating or “cheating” and after her smug but talented lawyer gets her off the hook in court she sees him flirting with the same woman leading her to shooting him too and her being sent off to jail. I feel since I caught the point so easily and it was also effectively funny it shows the effectiveness of these means to storytelling.
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