yotsuya said:
I guess I’m confused why you would want to scub out the green tint in this film when it was original to the production and not added for the home video release. All the scenes (and only those scenes) within the Matrix are supposed to be tinted green. None of the scenes outside the Matrix have that green tint. It was an artistic choice the filmmakers made and it is really cool when you can instantly know whether you are in the real world or the matrix by the tint of the image on screen. It is like that for every Matrix installment. It really seems more fan edit than preservation to make such a major change to the movie.
No, it was never in the original film. If you’re going by what the sequels do then why not scrub out all the guns that Neo uses and loves in The Matrix? But, if you prefer the way the BD looks then just watch that. 😃
yotsuya said:
Well, I can’t say that I caught the green when I saw The Matrix in the theater, but when I saw the two sequels in the theater, I very much noticed it. I can’t say that the extent of tint in the blu-ray is accurate, but I would say the DVD is accurate.
The DVD is a traditional Telecine, it’s not accurate to anything.
In my experience and knowledge, distribution prints are not done with the care and accuracy of color that the many talented people on this site tend to have.
Prints are certainly the result of a careful color grading process. It’s true you can find obvious examples where this was overlooked, but you can also find examples where the film score is grossly overlooked as well.
And it is possible that the prints were not done as accurately as they wanted and what you are seeing on the print is actually an error rather than the correct colors.
Without an LUT the scan is not necessarily projection-accurate. This is unfortunately a limitation we have to deal with. The best way to get a proper grading to the print is to project the film and re-grade it, but this is often beyond the abilities of fan-level restorations.
I’m more inclined to believe the scanned print is in error than there was some drastic change in artistic direction between the first and third movies.
Well you’d be wrong there. The scanned print may well be in error, but the sequels had DIs and were digitally regraded to green - the original was not. That’s two very different methods. They may well have intended all the Matrix scenes to look green, but there is only so much you can do with on-set lighting, especially as many Matrix scenes occur outdoors.