Which I don't even really mean as a defense of this kind of revisionism.
Maybe that's why there's not more of an outcry from filmmakers - with some exceptions, they just don't care all that much, while in the meantime we at home see comparisons between old and new and feel like some sort of artistic injustice has been committed. Even if the color grading is very carefully considered at the time, well, preferences change, things are possible that weren't before, and so forth. Like with alternate edits of films, I think most viewers naturally assume that every cut is carefully considered and reflects the will of the filmmakers, but as we've seen, many directors see it differently - they see mistakes they made, compromises they were forced to accept, etc., and just don't see things as gospel set in stone as I think a lot of people would naturally assume.Īnd I wonder if things like color grading are the same way. I don't know the provenance of this particular restoration, but it seems to me that a good many of the questionable ones are overseen and even instigated by the filmmakers themselves. I wonder if a big part of the issue is that, counterintuitively and perhaps even paradoxically, viewers at home care a lot more about this stuff than actual cinematographers and directors. Who can think that is a desirable outcome? Does no one feel that modern trends in film visuals shouldn't apply to films made in the past, under different conditions, with different visual intents? I don't understand what really motivates people to restore the films to a look they never had before.
But I guess there is no such thing as calm waters in a life of posting.īut now that I think about it, there were the days of teal-and-orange color-correction before this, so perhaps this conflict is as old as the hills. I thought I might be able to become calmer as I got older. But this seems the heinous new trend in restoration. After so many years of belligerent objection to colorizing black and white movies, to smoothing and DNR on blu ray, I hardly imagined we'd have to be as furious about people taking the color out of color films.
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