How about a colorized version?

You should be shot for that kind of thinking. How about we airbrush the Mona Lisa while we're at it?

I feel like a coloured version would take some of the magical feeling away from the film. The black & white colour gives it such a haunting feeling..

Nothing more than vandalism

God you can have Megan Fox...Give us back Vivien Leigh

Blasphemy

Sometimes being a bitch is the only thing a woman has hold onto.

Every time I see La Belle y le Bete I am blown away by the sheer beauty of it. It is exquisite, mystical and magical.

It was made in a country desvistated by war - literally. Almost all of the north west of France and the coast line down to Normandy was destroyed by bombs, artillery and grenades. And everything that wasn't blown up was covered in bullet holes. The infrastructure was gone and the finances of the country were in shambles.

That Cocteau was able to make such a beautiful film at all is considered almost a miracle by people who had experienced the conditions in France in 1946.

By the way, you can see a lovely tribute to Beauty and the Beast in The Phantom of the Opera: the passage way with the golden hands holding the candelabras is the most obvious.

Sometimes being a bitch is the only thing a woman has to hold onto.

Or we could just flush it down the toilet. How about that?



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In "Diary of a Film: Beauty and the Beast" Jean Cocteau wrote that color film was not available to him in post-occupation France, as he laments Belle's sky blue princess gown in a shot with black ducks. Not to say that the film would have been shot the same way had his cinematographer been provided color stock. He shot the film with what was available, and like the difference between pencil drawings and oil paintings, the work of art is unique to the medium.

yeah. they should colorize every black and white movie.

colors are beautiful and would make any black and white movie better.

black and white sucks that's why no one paints pictures in black and white. black and white was used before because there was no alternative. or it was too expensive. people who used it later like woody allen martin scorsese and steven spielberg are fools who ruined their movies. all those movies would have been much better in color. saying that black and white is better in any way is like saying the world would be more beautiful if colors dissapeared once in a while.

and i don't give a crap about artists who say they don't want to have their work colorized in the future. we'll colorize it and if they don't like it they could go cry in a corner. as long as their original visions still exist then it don't matter.

i love to re-edit other people's movies and music to make them better. it aint no crime, and any one who thinks it is is a fool.

oh and get this fools: in the future every great black and white movie will be colored. every single one of them.... how do you feel about that? I believe even in my lifetime.... it feeeeeelsssss grrrreeeeeaaaaat!

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