Black & White Movies That You Wish Had Been Filmed in Color

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Don't know if we've done this one yet...

Perhaps a bit provocative a question, but what do you think? I'm not talking those awful re-colorizations a la Ted Turner, but more that the movie suggests that were it originally filmed in color, it would have an added dimension.

Example: Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast", Hitchcock's "Rebecca", Powell & Pressburger's "I Know Where I'm Going"

Also, the opposite: color movies that you feel could just have well have been filmed in B&W without a substantial loss (perhaps even a gain) in effectiveness.

Example: Reservoir Dogs, Hitchcock's "Rope"

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Let's just switch Akira Kurosawa and Ang Lee on this one.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'd love to see Triumph of the Will in bright neons.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to see The Wizard of Oz with the color and B&W sections reversed.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

I was convinced Fargo was in B&W for a couple of years between my first and second viewing. It would work well, though it uses quite a bleached pallate anyway.

― chap (chap), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

Should have been in color: The Women, with fashions by Adrian.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also, the opposite: color movies that you feel could just have well have been filmed in B&W without a substantial loss (perhaps even a gain) in effectiveness.

I used to watch movies with the color on the TV turned all the way off for the hell of it. I remember thinking Gummo looked better in B&W.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev"?

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

i've always wished meshes of the afternoon was in colour

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

Obvious answer: the good soldier

― Abra K. Dabra (householdname), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev"?

-- Joe (lakeside04...), January 28th, 2007. (Joe)

dude change NOTHING about AR

― 69 (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Citizen Kane

lol.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Under the Cherry Moon...oh, wait.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

"The Hustler"

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

San Francisco International: "I wish this movie were in color."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

I want all movies to be presented in a thick sepia tone, with all standard edits replaced with star wipes.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

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