Re: [MOPO] The Stooges in color? Soitenly!

[Bruce Owen]

I think the trick is to start them young. My six year-old granddaughter and her friend were enthralled with “King Kong” last weekend. It was her thirty something parents who had trouble making the adjustment to the black and white world.   Bruce Owen Brooklyn Posters     -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Rick Auras Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Stooges in color? Soitenly!   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  She also loves the colorized version of March of the Wooden soldiers (or was that originally made in color) with Laurel & Hardy but have not gotten her to sit through a b&w film of theirs.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   ----- Original Message ----- From: JRS MoviePosterBid.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:57 PM 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Movielegends To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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