Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
So you're in the "make old things look like they were made last week" camp.
Sí, señor (yay, my Alt key works again!).
Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
Thomas Edison, one of the major innovators of motion photography, wanted to call his recording/projection device a "time machine" of sorts, as it captured everything about the time in which it was made, preserving it for (he thought) all eternity.
I happen to agree with this viewpoint - films are a capture of the time in which they are made, and that INCLUDES what they were made with (film vs. video, color vs. black-and-white). So when you, say, rid the image of all film grain, colorize a black-and-white film, or add a whole bunch of CG alterations to the image, you destroy the "time capsule" aspect of the film. I have no problem with this being done IF THE ORIGINAL IS PRESERVED COMPLETELY, i.e. "Blade Runner"'s five-disc box set, or the 3-disc "Close Encounters" box.
So you're in the "make old things look like they were made last week" camp.
Sí, señor (yay, my Alt key works again!).
Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
Thomas Edison, one of the major innovators of motion photography, wanted to call his recording/projection device a "time machine" of sorts, as it captured everything about the time in which it was made, preserving it for (he thought) all eternity.
I happen to agree with this viewpoint - films are a capture of the time in which they are made, and that INCLUDES what they were made with (film vs. video, color vs. black-and-white). So when you, say, rid the image of all film grain, colorize a black-and-white film, or add a whole bunch of CG alterations to the image, you destroy the "time capsule" aspect of the film. I have no problem with this being done IF THE ORIGINAL IS PRESERVED COMPLETELY, i.e. "Blade Runner"'s five-disc box set, or the 3-disc "Close Encounters" box.
I agree with the original being preserved completely (although I enjoy watching people tinker with it, as well), but I think you and I disagree on the meaning of the word "completely." I believe that, unless it was added intentionally, grain is not part of the movie. It is the result of imperfections in the films stock and is thus undesirable from a purely technical standpoint. In my opinion, the movie is what happens on-screen. Nothing more. And I want to see that as clearly as is technologically possible.