I hate how it’s black and white. Like mentioned before, it was shot in color, so it just looks drained and decolorized. The blood in the b&w Schindler’s List is a dark thick black and looks like actually blood. But because of the massive gayety, QT and the mpaa made us see HOBL in unnatural b&w and the blood looks like fucking water. It was so bad, I could barely see what was going on, I had to squint. If it was originally done in black and white, maybe I’d feel differently, but this was done in color, so this is just ugly censorship at its worst. QT is fucking wrong, the mpaa are fucking nazi’s.
I would’ve liked a Crazy 88 Polka Bloodbath.
J/K.
[quote]I hate how it’s black and white. Like mentioned before, it was shot in color, so it just looks drained and decolorized. The blood in the b&w Schindler’s List is a dark thick black and looks like actually blood. But because of the massive gayety, QT and the mpaa made us see HOBL in unnatural b&w and the blood looks like fucking water. It was so bad, I could barely see what was going on, I had to squint. If it was originally done in black and white, maybe I’d feel differently, but this was done in color, so this is just ugly censorship at its worst. QT is fucking wrong, the mpaa are fucking nazi’s.[/quote]
They didn’t do the fucked up B&W because of the censors, they did it so they would only have to film one Crazy 88 scene. They filmed it in color for the Jap version and just decolorized it for the American one. If they had filmed it in normal Black and White, then QT would have had to shoot 2 seperate Bride vs. Crazy 88 scenes.
And Metallica stuff would have sucked during that fight, but I still think that QT could have found other music that was appropriate to give everything a little more energy. Still kicks maja ass tho
I loved the way the scene goes back to colour with Uma’s blink. Quentin is a charming little bastard… those tiny details make me love him.
Once i saw the Jap version i dont think i will go back. The HOBL is about ten times better in colour than in B&W, not to mention added scenes.
B&W is good when used to effect and i realise Qt had to use to get it past the censors, but if they had not cared, QT would probably never have put in the B&W. It’s because there are a lot of weak people in the west that can’t stomach a bit of movie gore and violence that they have to put in B&W.
I don’t think it’s the people who can’t stomach it… I don’t think censorship reflcets what people feel. They just underestimate the audience.
Anyway, I’m not sure if QT did the balck and white scenes because of the censorship… r u possitive it’s like that?
I love Black and White and I always make all of my favourite pictures black and white on the computer. I like Hitchcock very much and all his movies, some of them are b&w like Psycho - who’s gonna call it bad only if it’s b&w? Well Tarantino liked his movies too as I know, and movies at all, just look how very 70’ the Kill Bill title looks at the end of the film. How many scenes were black and white! How old and wherewith perfect the music was! I like that style, especially when he could make Kill Bill modern, what would make the whole movie worse.
The b/w film and music offered excellent contrasts for both the onscreen shot compositions and choreaography. Still looking for the special editions to see it in all it’s blood splattered glory. I think I will prefer neither and love them both.
The member Cortez 2005 asked the following question:
[quote]why did kill bill go black n white at the start and in the big finale, and why did quentin choose to use cartoon animation to describe o ren’s life??
can anybody help?[/quote]
Please contribute.
the b/w scenes are awesome not just in this movie but in any movie i was actually thinking about making a movie in black and white someday
[quote]the b/w scenes are awesome not just in this movie but in any movie[/quote]
Totally agree.
I really like black and white films they look really cool, and I also like black and white films with little splashes of colour (a la Sin City and Pleasantville) they look awesome.
I also love black and white. no colors to distract you from acting and content/substance.
i just recently watched Paper Moon, awesome black and white film. And consider clerks.
Clerks is such a good b&w movie, hell its just a good movie overall, also i love Dr. Strangelove
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I also love black and white. no colors to distract you from acting and content/substance.
i just recently watched Paper Moon, awesome black and white film. And consider clerks.
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Well, hell how about Schindler’s List!
Yeah, I like b/w too. All the early Godard movies, Fritz Lang and Eisenstein Flicks. Ingredible in b/w. Would have never been as great as they are like they were made.
I just read a book called Hollywood Portraits. It is a guide to 1920’s - 1950’s Hollywood photography. It is hard to duplicate the photography from those days because they used these incredibly huge lights that needed a studio the size of a football field. They were so bright that the actors got what was called “Kleig Eye”(the lamps were made by a manufacturer named Kleig) The black and white scenes made post 1950 just don’t have the same contrast, but I guess it beats “Kleig Eye” - if you are an actor. The still shots were even better due to the extremely long distance that the lights and cameras had to be from the subject - the lenses were the size of Locomotive headlights, and probably weighed as much as a locomotive too. Check out some of these photos and you will see what I mean - and you will remember how great film looks. The best one’s that I saw were of Marlon Brando and James Stewart - spectacular.
the really old black and white movies are very awesome , they really need to comeback with the black/white movies
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the really old black and white movies are very awesome , they really need to comeback with the black/white movies
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That’s what I was trying to explain: It will never look the same because of the lighting and the film. The film today is too nice…no grain whatsoever - and the lighting today is much softer because of the film. Back then, the film was very slow and needed hard lighting to make motion picture possible. This lighting was not very good for the actors’ eyes. The union would never allow that kind of shit anymore.
Good Night and Good Luck looked awesome nonetheless
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Good Night and Good Luck looked awesome nonetheless
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They made an honest attempt to make that film as vintage as possible. Hat’s off to them for being real artists.