20th Century Fox laid out all that money for those filters in South Pacific and were not needed as Rodgers and Hammerstein did not want Doris Day in there film,(or any of there films) as they went with the much younger, more beautiful, and talented Mitzi Gaynor.
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What does the use of photographic filters have to do with the casting of the lead actress?
As she grew older in the 60s, Doris Day liked (required) to be photographed through a gauzy filter that removed her wrinkles.
However, I understand that the color filters in South Pacific were chosen by director Josh Logan to give different emotions to different scenes. Logan claimed the lab overdid the colors and he could not fix that.
However, I understand that the color filters in South Pacific were chosen by director Josh Logan to give different emotions to different scenes. Logan claimed the lab overdid the colors and he could not fix that.
I just watched South Pacific the other night and headed over to IMdb and read that...I thought. I may have misremembered. Im not where I can reference that now.
They had other trivia in there where someone complained about the filters years later and Logan said something like "well, I made 3 million off that movie so I cant complain now."
I'm also going on memory, some ten years back.
I think the cinematographer also had a hand in it, but it's too bad they filtered the camera and not attempted the filtering in post which would have been just as easy if I understand the process involved.
I think as big a sin of the color selection is that it not only ruined the glorious color of South Pacific, those filtered scenes were also darker, less detailed, and had poor contrast as well.
I've also read that on a huge (actual theater) screen, the effect is better, but I don't see how it could be too much less distracting.
Ah well, what's done is done, but I think it's telling that few (any?) other films tried that affect after South Pacific which was a blockbuster.