It's a Wonderfull Life - Youtube Version
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I'm not shaming you, Peter. You do your thing. I do admit to making a joke though. A rather funny one, too. At least I thought so. 🤣
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-24 02:35:35 +0000 UTCGeorge Lucas’ Speech Against Colorization: “I am not here today as a writer-director, or as a producer, or as the chairman of a corporation. I’ve come as a citizen of what I believe to be a great society that is in need of a moral anchor to help define and protect its intellectual and cultural heritage. It is not being protected. The destruction of our film heritage, which is the focus of concern today, is only the tip of the iceberg. American law does not protect our painters, sculptors, recording artists, authors, or filmmakers from having their lifework distorted, and their reputation ruined. If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created. A copyright is held in trust by its owner until it ultimately reverts to public domain. American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history. People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as “when life begins” or “when it should be appropriately terminated,” but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race. These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved. In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten. There is nothing to stop American films, records, books, and paintings from being sold to a foreign entity or egotistical gangsters and having them change our cultural heritage to suit their personal taste. I accuse the companies and groups, who say that American law is sufficient, of misleading the Congress and the People for their own economic self-interest. “Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.” I accuse the corporations, who oppose the moral rights of the artist, of being dishonest and insensitive to American cultural heritage and of being interested only in their quarterly bottom line, and not in the long-term interest of the Nation. The public’s interest is ultimately dominant over all other interests. And the proof of that is that even a copyright law only permits the creators and their estate a limited amount of time to enjoy the economic fruits of that work. There are those who say American law is sufficient. That’s an outrage! It’s not sufficient! If it were sufficient, why would I be here? Why would John Huston have been so studiously ignored when he protested the colorization of The Maltese Falcon? Why are films cut up and butchered? Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself. I hope you have the courage to lead America in acknowledging the importance of American art to the human race, and accord the proper protection for the creators of that art — as it is accorded them in much of the rest of the world communities.”
Peter Gad
2024-12-23 21:44:35 +0000 UTCMichael, I am not going to be made to feel ashamed of my passionate stance against the defacement of great works of art. This issue may be something trivial to you, and these movies just something to consume like junk food. But to me and many others these are important artistic and cultural works, made by great artists who deserve to have their art properly preserved and presented. Countless directors, actors and other luminaries of cinema have spoken out at length against colorization. If anyone sees me as silly for being so upset about it, I’m including below a speech George Lucas delivered before congress expressing his outrage about colorization. Perhaps it will hold more weight for some, since I’ve noticed many modern movie fans start taking movies seriously around the Star Wars era…
Peter Gad
2024-12-23 21:43:04 +0000 UTCLife doesn't always give you what you want, but I think it gives you what you need. It's taken me way too long to figure that out...😉
Troy Hickman
2024-12-23 20:44:59 +0000 UTCI think we can all identify with George Bailey. Life doesn't always go the way we picture it but if we look close enough it's better.
Patrick Anderson
2024-12-23 18:46:13 +0000 UTCI am suddenly very interested to hear what kind of things Peter Gad would say if he stubbed his toe on a LEGO.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-23 15:49:52 +0000 UTCOh, suprised to actually not see Dasha upload a reaction for Sunday or to see Gremlins uncut fixed yet. Usually she is pretty quick with fixing reactions. Not sure what's going on lol
JokesterHollywood
2024-12-23 12:22:52 +0000 UTCAs for her not being able to download the original version, where in her intro did she mention that? I’ve rewatched her intro now and could find no such statement. Anyway, even if she did say that, apart from a very few places in the world, that can’t be true. Or does she actually live in Russia currently? There, I don’t know. And yes, many of the shots in her version are reverse image, which you can prove to yourself by looking at Mary’s “George Lassos The Moon” artwork in the scene where George is invited in to Mary’s house. Obviously it should read in normal left to right letters but in her version is depicted in reverse. It’s at 12:43 of her reaction. If anyone wants to confirm that the original is actually normal left to right letters, watch the same shot in Youtuber BissFlix’s reaction at 22:23. Left to right placement of objects in a visual field and movement from a given side to the other are two of a filmmaker’s greatest tools to impact the audience in specific ways-the image of a figure starting out on the left edge of the screen and moving toward the right edge of the screen has a very different psychological effect on the audience than a figure moving from right to left- and in this version these fundamentally important elements of visual storytelling have been completely mangled to hell. It’s an outrage beyond belief. There just has to be a better way for her to watch the film than this utter travesty of a version. The barbarians who made this version (I assume it’s the colorized 80s monstrosity further hacked up and twisted by pirates to help avoid ai detection) seem to have gone out of their way to be as disrespectful to the filmmakers as possible.
Peter Gad
2024-12-23 06:49:01 +0000 UTCIt’s a very big deal to me obviously, and to many others who care about cinema and art in general. “It didn't affect her experience at all with her falling in love with it.” The fact that she loved it has zero bearing on the issue of the colorization affecting her experience. It absolutely affected her experience. Imagine she saw a colorized version of Casablanca, or a colorized version of The Maltese Falcon, or a colorized version of Nosferatu, or a colorized version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Only the most artistically insensitive person wouldn’t immediately recognize that seeing colorized versions of those films would affect her differently than seeing the original black and white versions would have. That’s because those films so obviously revolve around a style and atmosphere it is only possible to experience with black and white. But IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was also designed around its film medium. Frank Capra’s vision of the film’s atmosphere and emotional tone and visual impact is in the black and white version. The film’s soul is in the black and white version. All of that is absent in the colorized version. Yes of course people will love the film even in its colorized version, but their experience of the film will be greatly affected by the colorization compared to what it would have been had they seen the director’s vision. They’re missing a ton of the film’s artistic content and having a ton of random content that was never intended thrown in. If Dasha had never seen Michelangelo’s original white marble David sculpture but instead is shown a modern exact replica but in bright neon yellow plastic, it wouldn’t matter whether or not she loved the yellow plastic version, her experience of the work would definitely be affected by the new medium.
Peter Gad
2024-12-23 06:40:35 +0000 UTCShe mentioned in her intro that she couldnt find a black and white version copy to download for the reaction. Watching this reaction, she never had the B&W version and used the color version all the way through. So not sure what part of the reaction you saw that she was using black and white and supposedly switched. Other than that yes I do agree I wish it was the original but eh its not that big of a deal. It didnt affect her experience at all with her falling in love with it.
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-23 03:28:50 +0000 UTCDasha, what happened here?? You unfortunately watched the awful 1980s “colorized” version. Please know that no classic film lover would ever even think about watching a colorized version of a classic. It was a horrible, money driven trend in the 1980s to try to re market classic black and white movies to modern audiences by adding color to them. Fortunately, many great directors, cinema critics etc spoke out furiously against this criminal defacement of classic works of art. But the colorized versions are still out there, very unfortunately. Please never again watch a colorized version of a film that was meant to be seen in black and white. Both black and white AND color films were being made in the 30s, 40s, 50s. Both were popular. If a director filmed in black and white, they were going for a very specific aesthetic, emotional and atmospheric effect. I have suffered through seeing the colorized version of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE on another reactor’s channel, so I can tell you that you haven’t yet seen the film. You’ve truly missed so much by watching the colorized version. The original version works infinitely better, because of course it does, because black and white is the medium by which the director created his emotional, atmospheric and aesthetic effects. You completely miss those effects when someone randomly switches out the medium that he used to achieve those effects. Thank you so much for watching classic films, but please always be sure to watch classic films as the director intended them to be seen and as they were seen in their time, not as some sleazy, philistine 1980s corporate executive changed them to be to squeeze out some more profit from properties they didn’t even care about.
Peter Gad
2024-12-23 03:23:14 +0000 UTCMy life has also been touched by you. That's the main reason I became a patron because you seem like a really nice person and I enjoy your reactions.
Stuart Guthrie Jr.
2024-12-22 23:44:34 +0000 UTCNo Sunday uplaod today?
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-22 21:12:36 +0000 UTCAprès avoir vu la réaction de Dasha il me reste plus qu'à découvrir cet immense classique.
FredLeChouan
2024-12-22 09:37:35 +0000 UTCWhat a great reaction, thank you! You can look at your list of patrons and see how many friends you have :)
3dbadboy1
2024-12-22 02:29:27 +0000 UTCThis was such a sweet and heartfelt reaction. And yes, you have touched many people's lives.
CMB76
2024-12-22 00:55:25 +0000 UTCSay, how about a poll of New Year's Eve movies? Here are a few that come to mind: * Ghostbusters 2 * Strange Days (very underrated SF movie, with one of the best kisses in movie history) * New Year's Evil *The Poseidon Adventure "An American in Paris *Diner *An Affair to Remember I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Chime in here, guys...
Troy Hickman
2024-12-21 21:24:31 +0000 UTCYou have touched many lives with your entertaining content and your kind heart. I look forward to your reactions every week, and they make me happy, and with my depression, that's very important. Don't doubt yourself. You are a gift.
Mark Rude
2024-12-21 20:43:47 +0000 UTCAww, this was such a sweet reaction from you. Merry Christmas Dasha thanks for all the smiles you have made from me this year. You have absolutely touched my life in a very positive way. You are an amazing soul <3
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-21 18:30:43 +0000 UTCA classic! I watch it every year at this time. So glad you enjoyed it! Merry Christmas, Dasha. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Bill Bowron
2024-12-21 18:17:26 +0000 UTCHey Dasha any chance you will fixed the blocked Gremlins uncut reaction?
JokesterHollywood
2024-12-21 17:41:45 +0000 UTC
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