A painting of me

Raiders of the Lost Ark, as a silent B&W film. ⇒

   23 September 2014, late morning

Steven Soderbergh has posted a version of Raiders of the Lost Ark online for people interested in film to study.

I’ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect. Wait, WHAT? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? Well, I’m not saying I’m like, ALLOWED to do this, I’m just saying this is what I do when I try to learn about staging, and this filmmaker forgot more about staging by the time he made his first feature than I know to this day (for example, no matter how fast the cuts come, you always know exactly where you are—that’s high level visual math shit).

I just clicked around to see what random scenes would look like, and Soderbergh is right, this film is staged perfectly. Everyone seems to be in just the right place, all the time. Also, this film looks gorgeous in black and white.

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