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Re: Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)

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Post by jonplackett » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 2:59 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #39

jonplackett wrote: post #11

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 ot…

As I was reading that I was going through the implementation in my head, totally doable in current tech

Yeah you could do it again now, but there was a dark age of mobile dev when it wasn't possible. I guess I should put it on the to do list!

Re: Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)

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Post by Maursault » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 9:10 PM UTC

FiddlerClamp wrote: post #33

In this version Belloq's head explodes at the end...I thought that footage was lost to time!? It's strange to see it in such pristine quality.

> In this version Belloq's head explodes at the end...I thought that footage was lost to time!?

They preserved it for future generations on the BluRay. What version is there where Belloq's head does not explode at the end?

Re: Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)

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Post by mmcdermott » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #23

Just an aside: I was amused when someone pointed out that the plot of "Raiders" would have reached the same climatic end if Indiana Jones were completely removed from the script. I have noticed too that "This Island Earth" (if you know this old classic sci-fi film) is another such script in which the protagonist could be removed with no change in the outcome.

I've seen this observation and it did make me chuckle, but it misses the entire point of the film.

It's true that the "big picture events" of Nazis getting their faces melted off would have happened either way, but Raiders isn't about the Nazis. It's about Jones himself and the change he undergoes between the beginning of the film when he is dismissive of the supernatural to the end where he has at least a grudging respect for it (both turning away from the opening of the ark and his subsequent comments indicate this). The Nazis would have been the same, Jones wouldn't have been and Raiders is a movie about Jones.

Re: Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)

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Post by cptnapalm » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

fractallyte wrote: post #47

andi999 wrote: post #36

Now let's compare to secret of the incas...

You should have written more! For those who don't know, Secret of the Incas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas ) was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. It's a fantastic adventure movie, with some great dialog, and set in pre-tourism Cuzco - all in Technicolor! Definitely worth watching, for its own merits alone.

Don't forget Carl Banks' Scrooge McDuck comics. Not even kidding.