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why did it shot in Black + white ?


hi
some of woody allen movies shot in black and white such as this one, stardust memories, celebrity and shadow and fog
i don't get it why does directors go with this choice ( martin scorsese ) if they where trying to imitate old movies back then they had to shot in b&w because the technology didn't give them much choice but after color why would he go back to an old days out dated tech ?
it was a great movie and one of my favorite but im sure if it was colored i would be way better.


* sorry for any spelling or grammatical mistakes im learning english and woody allen's films helping me a lot with terms and vocabularies :p

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To the OP: You are aware that some people also actually make b/w-paintings or charcoal works for example even though we have "invented" colours?

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