Re: * THE MIST in Glorious Black & White! *

<ramsey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Mar 20, 7:00?pm, Al Smith <inva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "the dog rom that film you saw" wrote:
> > "Franklin Hummel" <hum...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > So as an Extra(!) in this set is the entire Director' Cut 
> >> > version -- in
> >> > wonderful Black & White!
> -
> > or you could just watch the movie and turn the colour off on your 
> > tv.
> -
> LOL. The voice of common sense is heard. Good point.

Does that have the effect the director would prefer? I've always felt
that monochrome reproductions of colour paintings are at best
approximate, and so I wonder if the same is true of films. If you 
turn
off the colour on the coloured version of the original KING KONG, 
does
that give you the same as the black and white version?
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Hey, Ramsey, looks like you *are* quite right!

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/the-mist-2-disc-special-edition/

"But in addition to those you also get the option of watching The 
Mist as Darabont initially intended- that is to say in black and 
white- just like a fifties monster movie. The film hasn't just been 
grey scaled here, it's been painstakingly color corrected and when 
you see how it looks on that new HDTV via a simple upconvert DVD 
player you are going to go bananas. It is quite literally the only 
way you will ever want to watch this film again and I absolutely 
believe it should get a theatrical release in this format or at least 
tour the festival circuit. For one thing the documentary feel of the 
film is ramped up several notches. For another all the efforts of the 
movie to appeal to a fifties monster movie aesthetic get a hefty 
boost. And lastly, in black and white, the whole film takes on a more 
surreal tone echoing the aspect that early cinema goers of the turn 
of the century associated with the unreal feeling they got from 
watching any cinema at all. The black and white version of the mist 
plays like a nightmare rooted in the very real anxieties and tensions 
we all associate with great apocalyptic art."

Sounds great!  Look like the B&W version is the way to go for the 
first watching.

I still don't know if there has actually been a changes in the edit 
of the film.  I suspect not, but I'm not certain.

        -- Franklin Hummel in Boston, Massachusetts

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