I watched this film last night on TCM cable channel, but, since this is a Ted Turner channel, it was in color... you can imagine it! I couldn't finish watching it.
Too bad! Last time I saw it was in 1978... obviously in B/W, I was 14, and it really impressed me.
B/W is such an under-rated filming process. Colour is fine in about 95% of all films made these days, but some films work much better when filmed in black & white. And The Hill is a good example of that.
I really can't put my finger on why b&w works so well with this film. Perhaps it make the film more gritty, less comfortable, remote. But whatever it I don't think the film would be quite so effective in colour
Well, fortunately a friend of mine gave me a VHS version of "The Hill", with the original feeling of black & white instead of color... excellent
shareI've seen some publicity and behind the scenes still photos in colour and they just seemed so wrong! It's a BW movie, I would never even look at a colourized version of it!
...now I do it just to watch their f----n' expression change.
Nonsense.
This film was not colorised. And TCM doesn't run colorised movies anyway.
wow really? i saw it last night and it was black and white
shareIt was B&W in Raleigh NC
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I believe it's a TCM company policy not to show colorized movies. Turner does not necessarily = colorized.
shareIn any case, if you do catch the colorized version, you can always turn down the color in your TV settings and make it black and white again. I think it's better to show colorized versions of classic films on television since some people do like them and whoever prefers b&w can always turn the color down on his set and everybody can be happy that way. That's why they're releasing some classic b&w titles such as It's a Wonderful Life in their colorized versions on Blu Ray.
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As we all know, WWII-era people, skies and landscapes were all black and white and various shades of gray, so of course movies depicting that era and before should be in black and white. Plus - oh, yeah - black and white film was cheaper than color.
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