Joshua Clinard
Screenwriter
Frankly, my Dear, I don't give a damn. :wink:
There is nothing wrong with GWTW.Hey Robert,
I hear you say this, however when I watch the current disc projected on a large screen I find it *very* hard to look past the horrible edge-enhancement and mosquito-noise/compression artifacting that is a real distraction in the faces of the characters and details in the image. Nothing "film like" about that at all!!!
Looks to my eye that, all digital wizardry asside, the film would be better served on DVD simply by doing a better job with compression and having the producers resist the urge to "enhance" detail via artifical electronic sharpness.
BTW, perhaps the new version of Singing in the Rain isn't as true to the original projected experience as one would like--but neither is the older DVD IMO. Viewing the previous DVD a large-screen display the 3-strip alignment problems produce a pretty obvious (distracting) green-edge to objects in many scenes (most viewers would never notice this on anything smaller than a 50" screen...but it's CLEARLY a problem at 100"). Given this, I hardly think that this previous DVD constitutes how a 1950's theatrical projection would have looked either!
-dave
p.s. Thanks for the good news regarding Chicago! did you happen to notice if the DVD had DTS audio??? I just saw this film in NYC over the weekend and was really impressed!
Rumoured for late 2004 (the 65th anniversary) is a deluxe Gone with the Wind edition with a new transfer and supplements that might include 90 minutes of cut footage.