haineshisway
Senior HTF Member
Well, the grain or noise or whatever in the car scene is a moot point on The Fury because in order to compensate for it on the Arrow, the contrast has been turned to black to disguise it, rendering a lead actor almost unseeable - if people don't see that then I'm bowing out of this discussion. So, whether it's scanner noise or grain (to me it looks very similar to The Driver's pushed film low-lit sequences), in the PRINTS and obviously on the negative, the overt grain in that scene is there. So, even if the Twilight Time has some noise in it, it at least represents what that scene has always looked like. Had Arrow simply left it as is (and why wouldn't they have) and had all that lovely pushed film grain, which is still slightly visible even with the darkened image, then we might be able to have a meaningful side by side comparison. But we can't because they didn't. My suspicion is had they left it without darkening it we would be seeing similar things to the Twilight Time. Just my opinion.