Comments by "RiC David" (@RiC_David) on "Breaking Bad: Marie Schrader - Walter White, Lite" video.
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Just talking colours: It's interesting how established associations of colours don't always match your personal perception of them and connotations.
While not being American may help, green has never signified money, greed or envy to me. It was my favourite colour through most of my childhood and adult life and to me was how most people would think of white - the opposite to darkness/evil. Green was the light, the good, the happy and True. This comes through with our association of eco-friendliness and plant life/fertility but other than that, green has mostly negative symbolism in Western culture and that's backwards for me.
Then there's purple, the colour that I only recently started to appreciate. The royal aspect isn't one I relate to it in the slightest; I understand that purple was such a rare and expensive colour to dye fabric with centuries ago that it became associated with royalty and riches. That said, red is the colour I link to royalty if only because of England's Royal Family, and if not red then blue.
Purple to me is the way Prince (the musician) used it - deep, charismatic, androgynous, sexually ambiguous, artistic, sensual. Astrologically it would be mercury, with Queen's Freddy Mercury also embodying my associations of the colour. Interestingly though, both have royalty in their names, which is funny as royalty is the antithesis of every adjective I used to describe purple just now.
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