john a hunter
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It may be a better South Pacific with the colour filters removed in your opinion but then it would not be South Pacific, would it?
This film is on Disney+ but I haven’t watched it.
I believe it is hd only.
will we be seeing more fox films on Disney+?
I read (maybe The Hollywood Reporter) that Doctor Dolittle is coming to Disney+ at some point in April, so that will be another Fox film in their rundown.
I assumed it was the Rex Harrison version, and it was not at the top of the list (meaning there on April 1) but rather later on down the list meaning later this month.
Another wish I have is that they release SOUTH PACIFIC with the filters intact. The desaturated version just looks weird. It was meant to have filters. Also, please give us the uncut version in HD even though it might be faded in sections.
Nope, they didn’t.I thought they had desatrated the filters on the blu ray for SOUTH PACIFIC
Just watched the standalone Blu-ray of South Pacific the other night.
Godawful filters and Godawful choreography were all still intact!
Every time a filter appeared, my wife and I went "Ack! We should have turned it into a drinking game.
I had the same reaction to the filters on Blu. High definition resolves them better and makes them palatable since you can get so many more details underneath them in HD rather than on the DVD.Yes, the filters are there, but for the first time I didn't find them so terrible on the blu, unlike the VHS and DVD. As for the choreography, "South Pacific" is one of the rare musicals that had no choreographer, for the simple reason that Rodgers & Hammerstein didn't think any was needed. All the "choreography" was improvised (mainly by director Joshua Logan), just as it would have been in a Pacific war camp show.
It may be a better South Pacific with the colour filters removed in your opinion but then it would not be South Pacific, would it?
The filters were done in camera and they did not shoot filtered and unfiltered as I think Shamroy had suggested. He was right and Joshua Logan was wrong as it looked quite bad and the damage was done and could not be reversed contrary to what Shamroy had been told.Yes it would be, but better! I wonder if they even have the non-filtered trims.