rec.arts.movies.past-films

"Pjk" wrote in message
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> Are there any American, French, British, anywhere films that are as
> visually entertaining as the three loosely related films; Crouching
> Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and House of Flying Daggers.
>
> For example any of the fight scenes in the first, but especially the
> fight on the tops and limbs of the pine trees. The scene where the man
> flips a pebble at one of the drums and the supposedly blind girl
> twirls and swirls and hits the same drum with her long sleeve. The
> fight between the two women amongst the colorful leaves.
>
> The only thing close is something like I, Robot, but this involves the
> choreography of a bunch of machines. I can't think of anything as good
> and I wonder why.

I suspect that when "The Wizard of Oz" was first shown in 1939 the
impact it had on audiences was probably greater than the impact
the films above had on you. You went from rich colors to super rich
and brilliant colors. The 39ers went from B&W to color within the
same film. I would think the transition then was greater.

I know "The Wizard" wasn't THE first film in color, but it was the
first for a lot of movie goers then. Imagine back then all the films
you had ever watched were in B&W. Even this films starts off
in B&W. There you are watching a country girl in B&W and then
suddenly----zap--ALL COLOR! I imagine that they were as
dazzled as you are today.

Del