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Posted by Jay G. on 06/11/06 13:23
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:57:10 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:28:43 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
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>>On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:16:12 -0400, Joshua Zyber wrote:
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>>> The OAR for the film is 1.85:1. The fact that Kubrick was a black bar
>>> hater and died before he could change his mind shouldn't be held against
>>> everyone who'd like to see his movies as they were actually composed.
>>
>>I agree. However, I've seen many arguments against OAR even on DVDs of
>>Kubrick's work, with people often citing his "artistic vision" for movies
>>on home video.
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> Except that it was "artistic blindness", and we have all gone over
> it several times and know that is what it was.
I actually don't think Kubrick was a "black bar hater" or was "artisticly
blind." In fact, I think he would rather have had all his films
letterboxed on home video rather than open-matte. However, the *studios*
definitely were black bar haters at the time, and would rather P&S to hell
a film rather than letterbox it. I think Kubrick's preference for
open-matte was over Pan & Scanning his films, rather than letterboxing
them.
-Jay
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