[HN Gopher] Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent ...
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       Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film
        
       Author : keiferski
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-02-19 11:28 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | keiferski wrote:
       | _Oh, and I've removed all sound and color from the film, apart
       | from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the
       | visual staging aspect._
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       | Note that the music is only intended to be filler.
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       | Otherwise, watching this in black and white really made obvious
       | how well staged and choreographed the film is. I don't consider
       | myself much of a Spielberg fan, but I was impressed.
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       | If the music bothers you, try the section at 1:23:00. It goes
       | pretty well with that scene.
        
       | konsumer wrote:
       | I get that they were trying to focus on staging, but unlike old
       | silent films, this is very hard to follow without dialog cards,
       | if you've never seen the original. Also, the music really doesn't
       | fit.
        
         | keiferski wrote:
         | I don't know, I thought the brilliance of the staging is that
         | you almost don't even need dialogue to follow the plot. It is
         | all communicated pretty clearly through cuts and body language.
        
       | jonplackett wrote:
       | Positives: great idea. it really makes you notice the beats in
       | each scene. The ups downs ups downs. Spielberg is so good at
       | that.
       | 
       | The negatives: music does not fit at all. No dialogue. Would love
       | to see a more deliberate attempt at making this an old b&w movie.
        
       | sparrish wrote:
       | I was very disappointed. The overlayed music doesn't match the
       | film period or the visual tone at all.
        
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       | jonplackett wrote:
       | I actually made a website called 'The Artistifier' at the time
       | the artist was released (8 years ago?).
       | 
       | It let you import any YouTube video, it made it black and white
       | and a bit stuttery, put the music from the artist over the top
       | and let you add silent movie captions. That music had a way of
       | kind of enhancing anything you put behind it.
       | 
       | Unfortunately it is now buried in the mass grave of internet past
       | with all the other Flash websites.
        
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       | booleandilemma wrote:
       | This would have been better _without_ the music.
        
       | richardanaya wrote:
       | I liked it
        
       | jonfromsf wrote:
       | This is amazing to watch.
        
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