when you win 6 Oscars, but could've won more...

that was a small part of my life I want to tell you my whole story, I saw it today, we are starting with a riddle, what do these three movies have in common? Well, they're all from this century, they're all asked, they all have an A in the title, but there's something else, I suddenly realized the color, they were all reclassified, reissued in black and white and I thought, oh my God, that's how it should be have been the movie, that's Fury Road director Jordan Miller. Speaking of a decades-long dream, I've always dreamed of releasing a Mad Max movie in black and white, but before we dive in, of course, the obvious question is why remove the color?

I don't know for the record. Bong Joon Ho is joking. Here's something he's done before, but despite a nearly identical card, yes, actually, the movie is the same, the editing and the dialogue and everything is the same. He thought the hangers-on re-rating spit out a completely different movie. It's strange that you feel

more

like a film. It feels

more

intense, but again, why is it just a simple color grading? Why would we react differently? Why would we as an audience care? Something about the black and white, the white spirits, makes it a little more abstract. This is George Miller again.

Something about losing some of the color information makes it somehow more iconic. I'll get back to black and chrome in a moment, but first we have to talk about how rare this is in modern cinema. The completely monochromatic rating is almost exclusively associated with independent films or special cuts. I see Nate, which makes a lot of sense, the colors are great, they represent real life, they deliver which means they can be the focus of an entire marketing campaign. Hi Ken, and with our terrible attention spans on saturated and garish colors, the movie isn't going anywhere. red on you will still be the default, so whether it's just a matter of mood, having it in black and white really communicates the misery of the world or it's a historically conscious choice, it was contextualized in black and white to anyone who has seen the documentary.

In this, the reasoning for any widely distributed black and white film must be airtight these days, how did you die? No contact Not okay, of course, there is a way to cheat. This only includes both black and white and color in your film. Two aspects of the film, one very much from the point of view of our Panama, which is the color sequence and then the black and white, is the point of view of Robert Downey Jr. Louis Straws. Now, if this seems simple, a lot of movies do it, but like Nolan's obsession with In Perspective, everything in the color sequences is from Leonard's point of view, we're always in his head, there has to be a point in the Color change.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. Commonly used for flashbacks because you already know old movies. they're in black and white Nostalgia, but usually directors try to layer more than that, it's just because I was angry like American History black. and white and now it's changed the Wizard of Oz is a little simpler once again, the coolest in Kansas Dorothy hates it Oz is colorful Dorothy loves it we must be over the rainbow this diva subtext within the movie but it's impossible to miss This colorful symbolism, and later films like Pleasantville, introduce color into an otherwise colorless world to indicate who has freed themselves from the social oppression of the suburbs.

Now it looks like a picture. This is all great. I love color theory and I love that we can still hybridize black and white. Color in cinema, but in our generation we do not have the possibility of making a production in black and white. The production companies do not want to finance them. Most moviegoers don't want to see it, so the closest we'll get to a full-fledged black and white movie. Blockbuster is special cuts thanks to digital technology with very small projects we can make black and white people like this so now some people think these cuts are stupid artistic tricks.

To be honest, I do it too sometimes, but just because it's a gimmick doesn't mean it's bad. I think the essence of the movie Mad Max is the demolition derby Mad Max Fury Road is mostly action George wanted to find the movie with action wall to wall there is hardly any dialogue many movies have parts of The Talky and they have the The action parts in this case were happening together, so it's basically just images. The biggest indicator or proof of this was the disagreements Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron had with George Miller on set because they

could

n't understand his artistic vision.

Doubts you can get. something without the use of words, I really want to understand what he wanted and, uh, I just completely failed and the reason they

could

n't understand it was these 3500 panels around this room, placed on boards, and you could walk around the room virtually. and represent the film. This is the way George Miller likes to work; he prefers images to scripts and that's why the film looks so sharp despite the chaos on the screen and the reason why something so frenetic is so easy to follow as a viewer is the framing. and the edit I got smoking in that cutting room is added milling.

A Margaret six will place the focal point of most shots in the center of the frame, even during action scenes, meaning you can process even the quickest cuts, everything we'd hear. at the time in the communications George was saying: put the crosshairs on the nose, put the crosshairs on the nose, that director of photography John sealed the composition, whatever the central point of that shot was it had to be in the center of the frame in the fastest cut your eye has. You won't have to switch to find the next topic

when

you only have 1.8 seconds of time to do it and this brings me back to black and chrome, oh what are they?

What a beautiful day

when

you take the color out of a film. It focuses the viewer's attention on the lighting and focal point, which is further amplified when the director insists on centering the frame. This focused attention also applies to the color version. The film is more like a choreographed musical than a traditional action movie, but with When the Saturation Wears Off, you can completely turn off your brain and let the images guide you. This is part of the reason why many student films are shot in black and white because it is a great way to learn the basics of filmmaking and highlights a specific approach. screen element for the same reason, there are other notable black and white editions to communicate this same point, such as Soderberg's 2014 Raiders Fame Cup, if you want to learn more about these, check out a great video from my friend Danny at cinemastix, but the main point of Soderberg's Cut was to remove the distractions of color and dialogue to highlight Spielberg's incredible visual storytelling through similarly blocking and staging in black and chrome.

The action on screen is the story. Max only has 63 lines of dialogue. Furiosa is only 80. You're bleeding. This is ridiculously low for a two-hour film for the two main stars, but the anemic economy of the script is indicative of George Miller's dream of creating a story that makes sense without subtitles, which is why Miller thinks that the black and chrome isn't just a gimmick to me, it's the best version of the movie. It's also worth mentioning that the trick label completely underestimates the effort required to make one of these cuts in black and white, you don't just turn off the saturation, it's a collaborative process between the cinematographer, the cinematographer And colorists, in closing, I'm not trying to convince any of you that black and white films are better than color films.

Actually, I don't think so. I think I prefer the original color version of Mad Max, it's so vibrant and exciting, but I think there are cases where a black and white version of a film provides a completely different experience and perhaps allows you to focus on elements that don't. You noticed before, this is your way home, so next time you watch one of these pop movies. on a streamer maybe give it a chance, maybe you'll love it. I mean, I knew he was brilliant, but I didn't know how brilliant until I saw that was my first reaction, oh my god, I owe George an apology for being so good.