Why is it b+w if it's from the 80's?
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billy51482 — 16 years ago(December 04, 2009 06:34 PM)
I thought movies were always in color. You mean they used to make movies in black in white once? Woooowww!!!
Are people so dense? Hasn't this person heard of style, mood, atmosphere? It's a modern film shot in black & white to help enhance the reality of the film's period. Plus it looks like a David Lean picture or something. -
RoddmannW — 16 years ago(December 10, 2009 03:51 AM)
Because the movie works 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better in black and white than it would in color.
This is hardly rocket science people
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CalvinValjean — 16 years ago(January 15, 2010 08:39 PM)
I found that the B&W added a certain authenticity to the story, not only in making John Merrick's makeup look physically more realistic, but it also just added a certain feel that made the whole thing seem "more real." It also seemed to add more credibility to the historicity of the film.
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ChrisW42 — 15 years ago(February 17, 2011 02:08 PM)
From Hell (2001) is filmed in colour and also features the Merrick character. The make-up is very close to that used in this movie and therefore Merrick's own appearance. It's interesting to compare the black & white and colour versions but I think The Elephant Man is the better one.
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kkhsiivonen — 16 years ago(January 22, 2010 04:46 AM)
I can think of alot of reasons to do it in BW
- Cheaper film
- Feel of MGM horror films from early 30's
- It's easier to do makeups and sets when color is no issue
- It looks good
- Most importantly; Just beause some technology exists, it doesn't obligate anyone to use it. Why do people walk in 2010, when Segway's was invented years ago
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furienna — 16 years ago(February 02, 2010 02:51 PM)
As this and "Schindler's list" are the only two movies, that I've seen, which are made after 1950 and still are in black and white, I wondered about that too. But yeah, I guess it was supposed to "set the mood", and make the elephant man make-up look more realistic.
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TaylorTC — 16 years ago(February 18, 2010 09:46 AM)
Some other black and white post-50s movies: Psycho, The Longest Day, Night of the Living Dead, Young Frankenstein, Raging Bull (though it features a brief color sequence), and Sin City (though some elements are stylistically colored.)
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