it had been entirely in black-and-white ?
Just thinking about the b/w shots morphing into colour and the reasons why it was made this way. Could it have been just as good / even better if it had all been in black-and-white . ?
( I personally don't mind it / wouldn't mind it either way ).
Thank you.
It would have been better to make it either all color or all b&w imho, I wouldn't mind which. The switching seemed gimmicky and was distracting. (There was another thread on the subject and this seemed to be the near-unanimous view.)
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The real life wasn't in black in white Pre-1968.. I used to think so as a kid until I was told otherwise. I wish there were more older films and TV shows shot in color so we can know how it really looked.
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Yeah, the entire film should have been in color and not done in that gimmicky, flashy black and white/color tradeoff. Maybe just the first scene in black and white to suggest "history", then maybe the final scene in black and white to reiterate "history" - and to bookend the middle colored segment.
shareI think the makers wanted it black and white. But studios hate to have big budget b and w movies. They are right that many people don't like black and white. It's a risky investment
shareI think they did it because they wanted to show some contemporary footage such as Cronkite reporting the news and things like that. It might have looked too strange if that was the only stuff in black and white.
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