Millennials seem to know it all. All they don't know is how to earn enough money to pay for their own follies.
The phrase "put your money where your mouth is" is unknown to them. They only know "Mum, put YOUR money down" or, "Everyone on Kickstarter, put YOUR money down."
DOWN THE FUCKING DRAIN.
This Jerkwad (that's a pile of cum-snotty Kleenex a wanker like this has come into) knows NOTHING about restoration or colorization or anything. No credentials.
His blah-blah woof-woof continues with his demand for money so he can colorize the 1925 classic THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
Scary...to think what this bloody dimwit could do to make it a Crayola cartoon disaster.
He thinks he has a bright idea in restoring the film and putting it on BluRay?
Titmouse doesn't know (or care) that the foremost film restoring DVD Company, KINO, has ALREADY come out with the clearest, best versions of "Phantom of the Opera" on multiple-DVDs (including BluRay).
And yes, plenty of copies are out there and NOBODY is that interested, because it's a movie that's nearly 100 years old. And we can all go to GOOTUBE and see the unmasking scene, which is all most people care about.
True, there hasn't been a "colorized" version because...professionals know better. The craze for colorization ended in the VHS era! PS, it never extended to silent films, many of which were available in hand-tinted versions that had just the hint of color needed...a western might have a sepia hue. Night scenes might have a dark blue hue. Hue get it?
At this point who even gives a rat's ass about Chaney's masterpiece? People can easily find the Claude Rains and Herbert Lom remakes, as well as all the variations (like "Phantom of the Paradise.") People with a 3D fetish and $100 to throw away on a Broadway show can watch that chandelier drop in person, or they can watch the crappy movie version of Lout-Weber on DVD.
A lot of goofy companies that toss "public domain" movies around have already added soundtracks to the Chaney version, and God only knows what horrible synth track Titmouse would want to put on it.
The main reasonn colorizing this movie is a bad idea: the original had a COLOR SEGMENT for shock value. The masquerade sequence (The Phantom as the RED Death) was shot in color and has been well-restored. If the whole movie is in color, this sequence loses its power. (Several other movies used this same gimmick, having one scene in vivid color to surprise viewers. "Jack the Ripper" 1959 comes to mind).
Lastly, much of the fucking film takes place in gloomy catacombs, and there's no way these need colorizing. Gray shades work just fine, and Lon Chaney's pallid make-up is perfect as it is, since skulls are white not...(oh, you thought I was gonna write "hummus colored" - no, I'm not).
A release from KINO and similar companies gives fans the original print with restoration of hues if the producer had used them, a choice of vintage or modern soundtrack, and a restored print. NO COLORIZED SHIT.
The novelty about colorization wore out quickly, years ago, which is why there are only a few DVDs of colorized Three Stooges shorts, and why most colorized prints weren't even digitized from the VHS copies in circulation.
But a smug Millennial with no knowledge of film history just skips over to Kickstarter and hopes his dream will come true. Nope. You're goin' down, Danny Dimwit. PS, nice job of de-colorizing your photo! Except nobody cares whether they see your cheesy juvenile smirking puss in color or not.
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