Many years ago I was at a video store called Hollywood Video. I saw Raging Bull on the shelf and next to that tape I saw a tape of a colorized version. To this day I regret not renting it. I never saw it there again. I can't find anything about it online. If anyone knows anything about locating this rare find, please let me know.
shareI've never heard or seen so sorry no help but would you really want to see it in color?? I guess maybe once but it perfect as is !!
shareI like colorized movies of black & white classics. It gives a separation & distinction to the images. Good to have both, like in most cases it's not an either/or situation
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Individuals that are even interested in the possibility of watching art that was initially filmed in black and white and then colorized, really have no understanding of motion pictures.
Can one even imagine watching a colorized version of "Casablanca"? Perhaps space-station can but we already know that he is certainly no film aficionado.
Actually, "Casablanca" would have been perfectly fine in color. Real life - even in the 1940s - *was* in color, after all. The only reason it was filmed in black and white was that black and white was cheaper. Period.
share"Perfectly fine"? Well, that's a matter of opinion, but the real question is would it improve the film? (Almost certainly not.) Why bother then, except to appease viewers who can't appreciate black and white?
If we leave aside Casablanca, try arguing The Third Man or Citizen Kane would be improved in color. No more than The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp or Gone With the Wind would be improved by turning them black-and-white.
There's a very simple problem with colorized films (and I've seen quite a few). Leaving aside the question of tampering with the film, the photography, set design, costumes, etc. are all modulated towards black-and-white. Generally, this doesn't work well in colorized versions of black-and-white films, giving an artificial, splotchy air to everything. But then colorizing a film decades later is artificial from the start. I find the comment that it makes images more "distinct" to be opposite my experiences.
Parenthetically, there actually is a colorized Casablanca, and you can find screencaps on Wikipedia. It looks ghastly.
Though let's be fair: Scorsese's choice to shoot Raging Bull in black-and-white was, well, a choice, not because it was cheaper. So the film in question shouldn't be part of this discussion.
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As an aside, part of the reason he shot it in black and white was just to avoid colors fading due to the film stock available then. It was originally gonna be shot in color, and some of it was actually.
shareThat is true, not to mention Michael Powell's request, due to the boxing gloves not being the right color.
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Wow, really? [shock] That colored version had to be a bootleg. No way could that happen without Martin Scorsese going super saiyan.
shareThat's interesting! It's like the cut version of Once Upon a Time in America I found in a rental place years ago. Probably terrible, but it would be a fascinating curio to own.
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