I have access to a colorized version on DVD if anyone is interested. Contact me at [email protected]
No offense to purists who prefer it in B&W!
Yes I'm very interested this is one of my all time favourite films and I watch it every christmas
shareI am interested in purchasing the colorized version of The Bishops Wife, please advise.
Thank you and God Bless
Mrs Tammy Scavo
Yes, please let me know how to order the colorized version. Cheers.
shareGet thee behind me, Satan. And put the colorizer ray-gun down; you've done quite enough.
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I couldn't have said it better myself! Color, ewwwww. I can remember when they played old b&w movies in color when I was a little girl, my father would manually turn OFF the color on the TV so we could watch it "correctly." :-)
If you can't enjoy a movie in black and white you don't deserve to see it.
I almost prefer black and white, can add so much to a movie.
They both have their strengths. Color these days is basically a distraction from poor storytelling. I may be generalizing, but probably not by much. Also, color seems to basically be a limited palette as well. Like the dark sea green Harry Potter films. If they're going to do away with color like that, they may as well have shot it in black and white. Probably would've made the films even more spectacular to look at (I despise those films though).
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I'm not sure why there is all the fuss. You can't tell me that color isn't more enjoyable than B&W! Think of TV shows that went from B&W to color - Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, etc. Did going to color ruin these shows?
The movie is still the same story and same acting. It is just more pleasing to the eye. If you prefer it in B&W than fine. Some people enjoy color. Just like some people enjoy digital restoration. These are just enhancements and don't mess with the content at all.
"It is just more pleasing to the eye", "These are just enhancements and don't mess with the content at all"
No, it's not more pleasing to the eye, it's an eye-sore, and it's also nothing what the director had envisioned.
The films were designed to be in b&w, were lit for b&w. Real life hues on the set are chosen specifically to transfer to b&w in a preferred manner. Who's to say one character is wearing a red tie and another character a lavender dress—if those articles of clothing are colored this way—when that's probably not at all what they were wearing in real life? Color is another level of filmmaking; like I mentioned above, films become studies in color, and directors and art directors and production designers spend a long time figuring out what colors would work well to enhance the atmosphere of their film. Brighter colors for a comedy, maybe; darker drab colors for a thriller, perhaps.
Instead, you're arguing that some money-grubbing executive wanting to squeeze every last penny out of their b&w vault films are going to hire some random, totally uneducated effects house to color these films haphazardly, slapping on ridiculous comments on the DVD box like "carefully colorized with the director's vision in mind" or whatever selling points they can, when the director's vision was "zero color" at all.
I don't know anyone who prefers fake colored films over the original b&w. Maybe 7 year olds who don't know any better. B&W is practically its own genre, it's as stylized as color is.
I suppose you would have a real issue watching Schindler's List or last year's The Artist, or Tarkovsky films (or certain scenes within his color films) or Kurosawa or The Apartment or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Wings of Desire or Kubrick's films or Clerks. or parts of Coen Bros films or parts of Woody Allen films or Martin Scorsese films or certain Mel Brooks films or 1998's Pleasantville.
You really think colorizing those films, all produced with the specific intent of avoiding color are less pleasing to the eye?
Take your colored films, they were created for the likes of you. But they are essentially the lowest form of respect in the filmmaking world. Oh, and yes, colorizing does "mess with the content". If you still don't think it does, re-read my post several more times till you get it.
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Besides all of the issues that ghostofaniceberg raises about the colorization process being a degradation of the visuals of a B&W movie, and not an "enhancement" .....
I thought that I would respond to this little nugget:
Think of TV shows that went from B&W to color - Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, etc. Did going to color ruin these shows?
Hogwash!
The Andy Griffith Show downfall was because of Barney leaving, he made the episodes snap. He(Don Knotts) left because of movies that he made and a bigger career, and also that the tv studios would not allow you to do movies and t.v. Many of the shows had run their time with the audience like always moving to the next thing.
Black and White could be looked upon as a separate style, but it was really a cheaper style than color at the time. The same arguments you mention and others could be said about silent films or radio. I agree and disagree with the other posters.
Agree:
Color or Black and white as long as the story is not messed with.
Low Quality or almost black and white is not good colors
Disagree:
Black and White is better, the story is everything and to truly enjoy, do not look at the screen, try to do radio style in another room.
No good actors or stories, I am a little in the agree/disagree. I guess a great movie of any time period is like fruit, be very choosy.
I wish everybody a Happy New Year, and enjoyed conversing with you.
I, too would like to see the colorized version, though I have the B&W version and love it. They should show this movie every Christmas. It's becoming a lost classic.
shareI am attempting to buy all of the colorized tapes and DVDs of black-and-white movies that have ever been made so I can soak them with gasoline and burn them. It's an expensive, long-term project, but well worth the trouble.
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