The Epic Battle of Good Versus Evil

A couple of days after Christmas I went with some of my family to watch the new Gullivers Travels starring Jack Black.  While it was a fantastic movie, that's not what most caught my attention, nor what I plan on writing about today.  The thought that crossed my mind was the epic battle of good vs. evil.  Generally, if you were to ask someone what colors represent good and evil I imagine the answer would most often be that white is good and black is evil, and I doubt anyone would refute that as a certifiable fact.  However, this particular movie decided on using the colors of red and blue to reference evil and good respectively.  Where the people who were portrayed as peaceful except to defend their country from attackers had an obvious blue theme, while the other civilization was a war mongering nation bent on taking control over the others, and donned red clothing and a red flag.  Interesting, not really a brand new revelation or anything earth shattering enough to blow your mind, but interesting to me.  It made me ponder on and search for instances where red was used for evil and blue for good.  The first instance I came against was that of the light sabers in Star Wars.  As if it wasn't enough to dress up Darth Vader in a black suit, they also gave all of those who embraced the dark side red light sabers.  In comparison, the Jedi Knights had a variety of different colors, but rest assured that blue was among the dominant colors used.

 Still not convinced, lets turn to a more historical reference, the cold war.  What color was used to represent communists I ask.  That's right, it was red, and I doubt any would dare to argue in defence of communism.  (That being said I in fact know multiple people who would, in fact, defend communism, not out of an actual belief that communism was right of course, only for the sake of being able to debate, so no need to prove me wrong with your communism was a good idea propaganda, thanks).  Lets look at another example, Tron.  The original creator and those who are against the new reigning tyrant all have blue glowing lines.  Those who are against and oppressing these poor programs, orange.  Granted, orange is not red, but it is quite similar, and if nothing else it at least provides another example where blue is depicted as being good.  If there is anyone who would read this and still feel the need to disagree that blue represents good and red evil, simply google it, and see what results pop up, thats what I did.  The only other specific example I could find was in a game called infamous, apparently blue xp is good and red xp is evil, I honestly have no clue what that even means, other than the fact that it supports my rantings.
 Well, it's time to get down to the real purpose of this article, and I would guess that by now it's probably not too difficult to imagine where this is headed.  Anyone living in Utah understands that there is a heated rivalry between two Universities, Brigham Young University and University of Utah (Utah State get over yourself, you're not anyone's rival, you're more like the handicapped little brother the rest of us all feel bad for).  Any true battle, for it to be of worth, should be one where good and evil go toe to toe and fight it out.  Therefore, it seems necessary, in order to give validity to the rivalry, to label one as good and the other evil.  Many points could surely be made in putting either as good or as evil, but what it really boils down to is this; when seen on the playing field which pulls the emotion of good and which pulls the emotion of evil.  No doubt anyone who attends these schools would surely say that the other is the evil, so we must put aside emotion and preference to determine this.  Lets leave it up to a friend we all love and rely on, the media.  As previously proven, the media has claim on red being evil and blue being good, and who are we to argue.  There must be a reason why these colors have been chosen for their purpose.  So BYU, as it's proud blue denotes, must therefore represent good, and Utah, with it's deep red denotes evil.  And remember, this is not simply my interpretation as a BYU fan, but rather the cold hard facts using an unbiased perception.

Blue and White, Gotta be the good guys!

Red with quite a bit of black.  Right like I'd believe they're not evil