Kill Bill colour changes to Black and White
In the movie Kill Bill, why does the colour keep shifting from standard colour to black and white? Is it to keep the gross levels down?
Best Answer
Kill Bill is basically a homage to dozens of films from the past, which were generally shown in black & white on television to cut down on the gore. The same happened to Kill Bill to be able to achieve an R rating and be released in theatres.
IMDB's trivia section confirms this:
The black and white photography is ultimately an homage to '70s and '80s US television airings of kung fu movies. Black and white (as well as black and red), were used to conceal the shedding of blood from television censors. Originally, no black and white photographic effects were going to be used (and in the Japanese version none are), but the MPAA demanded measures be taken to tone the scene down.
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Is Kill Bill Vol 2 in black and white?
Quentin Tarantino begins Kill Bill Volume 2 with a black-and-white widescreen image of his heroine called 'The Bride' (Uma Thurman), who delivers a brief synopsis of Volume 1 as she drives a convertible at some speed through the desert.When did color replace black and white?
Color Becomes Standard By the late 1950s, most Hollywood productions were being shot in color\u2014so much so that by the mid-1960s new black and white releases were less a budgetary choice than they were an artistic choice.Is Kill Bill in color?
The fight scene with the Crazy 88 is shown entirely in color, compared to the standard version of Kill Bill Vol. 1 which cuts to black-and-white to keep the film from receiving a harsh NC-17 rating. The all color version of this scene was also released in the original Kill Bill Vol. 1 in some international markets.Why is there so much blood in Kill Bill?
This is no more apparent than in what is possibly the filmmaker's bloodiest film, "Kill Bill." Not only did Tarantino need gallons upon gallons of fake blood to achieve the right level of violence for his revenge tale, but he also needed it to look exactly right in order to properly convey the era of films he was ...Kill Bill Vol 1 - The Whole Bloody Fight Scene
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Answer 2
No, I don't think it got anything to do with "gross level" - maybe the blood is not red, but body parts still fly around.
My own common sense tells me the goal of this technique is to put more focus on those scenes, draw the viewer attention.
This way those scenes are also much more "artistic" and give the movie whole new layer.. many times those things make the difference between "just another movie" and a cult movie.
Couldn't find any official explanation, so I stick with the above two reasons.
Answer 3
in Japan it is in color but no English subtitles for the extensive Japanese, in the film. It is way better in color. If i guess at why B&W here in the states it is because of the gore factor it is not typical Hollywood but realistic or not it is much more hardcore and the B&W tone it down about 1000% if you are a fan of the movie you owe it to yourself to see the Japanese version
Answer 4
I think it concern with the goriness of the scene... If we see the fight the color comes back when Uma Thurman blinks her eye and immediately owner of that place shuts the main power and the color changes to dark blue to minimize the red color of blood.
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