How was the gold effect done
Was a special stock used or was it simply the way the timer had to expose the final print?
I have never found infor on how this effect was done.
Good question.... Anyone?
MovieChat Forums > Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Discussion > How was the gold effect done
I think Huston just photographed it through a sepia filter. Maybe he explains it in his autobiography...
"What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter."
It was shot normally and the effect was done afterwards, in the lab.
shareAnd God, isn't it distracting/annoying? I recall being bugged by all that sepia when I first saw it...here i am watching it on tcm decades later...and it still hurts my eyes.
However, I love Carson, it's full of great actors and funny provocative lines:
"soldier, ya wanna drink?"
"cuttin' off her nipples with a pair of garden shears!"
...and those are in the first reel!
And the whole thing is so deliciously queer.
All things I love about it. But gold makes me nauseous, so pray I can suffer through the rest of it.
The color is very distracting! If it was someone like Vittorio Storaro shooting it with a yellow filter, it might have worked, to a degree. When he used color, it was beautiful and brilliant. But, the chemical alteration here is too much.
"I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! [slurp!] I DRINK IT UP!" - Daniel Plainview - "There Will Be Blood"
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I might be in the minority but I thought it was absolutely beautiful. It gave the story a dreamlike quality.
shareI have both versions in AVI format. Unfortunately the colour version has Russian audio.
If I'd never seen the colour version the sepia version wouldn't bother me so much. But the colour version is much more enjoyable to look at. I'd swap out the audio from one to the other, but they are different lengths and framerates.
Not loving the sepia. Hard on the eyes.
shareI've seen it both ways. I think the sepia helps the film.
Enormously in my opinion. I was watching the colour version online, thinking the gold effect was just in certain scenes but when I realised it was just a different version I switched. I loved the sepia, I enjoyed it much more after I changed to it.
shareNow the question posed is this: Is it the actual eye of a peacock somewhere on the land there, watching the nutty world around him, or is it an actual character in the film? I can't think of which one yet. By the way, I've never seen it before, and I'm pretty old. I am viewing it now on TCM.
shareJust watched this last night, and I thought it was sleepiness that made my eyes hurt.
shareI totally agree with you. I thought it fit this film perfectly.
shareI agree. It does seem to come from a reflection in gold(en eye). Kind of an old-fashioned type of movie, since it takes place in the 40's. The small amount of color is what puzzles me. What was the point of this effect?
shareI'm wondering, what is the point...symbolism? of the only color we see, the Dusty Rose...Julie Harris' blouse, the flowers in a vase, the horses ribbon, the dress worn by Liz Taylor at the boxing match...what does the Dusty Rose color symbolize?
shareI'm wondering, what is the point...symbolism? of the only color we see, the Dusty Rose...Julie Harris' blouse, the flowers in a vase, the horses ribbon, the dress worn by Liz Taylor at the boxing match...what does the Dusty Rose color symbolize?
shareForget that last question please. I answered it in my first or second sentence. ha ha.
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