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I definately can relate with what JR said about bringing
in a younger crowd. My daughter is 10 and is a big fan of Audrey Hepburn,
Marilyn Monroe and the likes. We had a great marathon going where she was
pulling films such as Funny Face, 7 Year Itch, and Breakfast at Tiffanys.
She then chose Sabrina which I felt she would enjoy but the moment she saw the
B&W movie starting she balked at it not being color and found a reason to
leave (something like saying she had to clean her room ..... yeah,
like that would ever happen voluntarily). She also loves the colorized
version of March of the Wooden soldiers (or was that originally made in color)
with Laurel & Hardy but have not gotten her to sit through a b&w film of
theirs. Hopefully she will grow out of this and appreciate the film for
it's content and not it's color (or lack of).
Rick
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:57
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Stooges in color?
Soitenly!
The legal argument on this was resolved long ago -- whomever "owns"
the film can colorize it if they want and there's nothing anyone can do to
stop them. Whether they should or not will be debated forever, but
there's no question that a colorized version of a black-and-white film is
something that a lot of younger viewers will watch while they would not watch
the black-and-white version. Sad but true.
Since that is the reality of the situation, I applaud the fact that these
producers are including BOTH a nicely-restored black-and-white version and the
colorized version on the same DVD. That actually satisfies both young
consumers and older purists. It's a far better solution than just putting out
a colorized version only and leaving the purists out of luck.
-- JR
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
11:41
Subject: [MOPO] The Stooges in color?
Soitenly!
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 10, 2004
The DVD era is
resurrecting the great colorization
debate of the 1980s, and at the heart
of the matter
are Moe, Larry and Curly.
Sony's Columbia TriStar
home-video unit is releasing
two Three Stooges DVDs that allow viewers to
watch the
original black-and-white or digitally colorized
versions.
Purists consider it desecration, while Sony
executives say the process
can introduce movie
classics to young audiences reluctant to
watch
anything in black and white.
The Stooges discs coming out
today also give die-hard
fans better black-and-white versions, the
studio
insists.
To prepare for the colorization process, Sony did
a
more extensive restoration than it had with
previous
black-and-white- only Stooges DVDs, said Bob Simmons,
a
technical specialist who worked on the project.
"The best thing about
this DVD release is it gives the
consumer the ultimate choice," said
Suzanne White,
vice president of marketing for Columbia TriStar.
"They
can watch the very best, the finest restored
image of the black-and-
white version, or watch the
new colorized version and switch
instantaneously
between the two." The new DVDs, "Goofs on the
Loose"
and "Stooged and Confoosed," contain four shorts each
featuring
Moe and Curly Howard and Larry Fine.
Offering a choice does not
appease colorization
critics, who include Sam Raimi, director of
Sony's
"Spider-Man" blockbusters. "I don't think they should
mess with
black and white," said Raimi, who is such a
Stooges fan that credits on
some of his movies label
extras as "fake Shemps," a reference to doubles
used
to complete Stooges shorts after the death of Shemp
Howard, who
both preceded and succeeded brother Curly
in the act.
"I think
they should just leave it as they are and try
to preserve them as best
they can," Raimi said. "I
feel like it's an artistic interpretation
that's not
anybody's right to make except the
director's."
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