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Comment on Ultimate Death Match (2009) by EarlierVictim

EarlierVictim — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:55:52 +0000

Unfortunately, the wrestlers owned money would have to get in line from crew members and cast that he screwed over before them. Some got it worse than Jake. He is black listed in film so he turned to wrestling.

Take a look at his history: criminal record for burglary in Washington State. Public records. He threatens people with their life.

The more noise you make, the better to keep him from doing this to more people.

He’s a con artist. Karma will come one day.

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by Inyarear

Inyarear — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:46:30 +0000

Grayscale amid color only seems underwhelming when not contrasted properly. The trick is to have everything but the grayscale “colour” in question be in fairly bright colors. I distinctly remember an episode of the Care Bears called “Drab City” which used this to good effect: it portrayed a multi-colored meteorite (I think) which was both literally and figuratively draining the color from the lives of everyone in the city surrounding it. Seeing some of the usually brightly colored Care Bears gradually go grayscale really set the mood for the whole story brilliantly.

With a competent digital effects crew and an experienced director making sure to keep as much colored background as possible in every scene, one could get the same visual effect from a live-action shoot. The trick would be making sure there’s always at least some kind of color around against which to contrast the grayscale. With the tomatoes ripening on the vine, for instance, one could show the affected plants all in grayscale with just the plump and juicy tomatoes standing out in bright reddish-orange. Affected people could be set against a bright blue sky and lush green background, and the spread of this “colour” in grayscale patches from one life form to another would look exactly like the spread of some horrible plague. Having a grayscale “colour” make people more sexually attractive at first would be something more of a challenge, but even that might work if you set the ghostly grayscale glow of the person against an otherwise darkened background.

It’s all about contrast and getting an effect that would be utterly impossible in real life (just like the “colour” in the written story) to seem very real to the audience. Setting the film in grayscale and the “colour” as a color which is available on the visible spectrum does sort of work, but it seems like it would be as underwhelming as being told about something amazing would be in contrast to actually experiencing the amazing thing yourself would be. Experiencing color in a world of grayscale would only seem insane to someone who’s colorblind. Experiencing grayscale as a “colour” in an otherwise familiar world of color, on the other hand, sounds insane just from the description; one could easily understand how a lot of people might gradually go mad from seeing such an impossibility played out before them in what they’ve always understood to be real life.

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:54:38 +0000

Hmm… Somehow, I think that using grayscale for the indescribable colo(u)r would be underwhelming.

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by Inyarear

Inyarear — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:24:22 +0000

Actually, one could turn the Die Farbe idea on its head and portray the new “colour” by having everything affected by it be grayscaled in an otherwise ordinary color film. Colors other than the ones we know do exist, after all, just not in the visible spectrum. Meanwhile, though grayscale is visible to us, one hardly ever encounters anything quite like it in the real world. (The closest anyone ever came to it, according to P.J. O’Rourke, was in East Germany prior to the reunification, which looked like something out of a film noir detective movie.)

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by David Lee Ingersoll

David Lee Ingersoll — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:53:20 +0000

Die Farbe went the everything in black and white except the colour route.

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:23:03 +0000

If we’re going to be featuring a colo(u)r that the audience literally can’t see, we might want to take a step further and make it an audio drama. Or maybe some kind of textual narrative. Wait…

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by Erin

Erin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:51:22 +0000

I guess you could make the “The Coulour Out of Space” as a black and white film and just have characters refer to the strange color. Or- ooh!- you could have everything in black and white *except* the color, so it’s strange within the context of that world. Sort of a “Pleasantville” thing.

Comment on Colour From the Dark (2008) by David Lee Ingersoll

David Lee Ingersoll — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:24:26 +0000

Just got back from the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. This year they showed a very good adaptation of Colour - Die Farbe. It's set it pre-WW2 Germany and deals with the problem of showing an unknown color fairly cleverly.

Comment on Leprechaun (1993) by Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:59:27 +0000

Magically low.

Comment on Leprechaun (1993) by Read MacGuirtose

Read MacGuirtose — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:26:16 +0000

Wait (I say very, very belatedly)… Body Count: 3? So after the O’Gradys and the pawnbroker, no one else dies in the movie?

I am very far from being an expert in the slasher genre, but isn’t that rather a low body count for this type of film?