Idle Ramblings

Oh, the irony

I ran across this story last week about the colorization of Three Stooges shorts. While I'm not too concerned one way or another about offering colorized versions of Three Stooges shorts in addition to the black and white versions, I though the following was kind of amusing:



'Star Wars'' creator George Lucas, who testified with Steven Spielberg before Congress in the 1980s against colorization and other forms of alteration, said the process yanks such slapstick performers as the Stooges out of the black-and-white universe they belong in.



''Would color distract from their comedy and make it not as funny anymore?'' Lucas said. ''Maybe just the fact that they're in black and white makes it funny, because their humor is dated. But by putting it in black and white, it puts it in a context where you can appreciate it for what it was.



''But you try to make it in full living color and try to compare it to a Jim Carrey movie, then it's hard for young people to understand. Because you're then thinking you're comparing apples to apples, when you're not. You're comparing apples to oranges. I'm saying it's not fair to the artist."

posted by Joseph @ 8/17/2004 07:11:00 PM