Eliminating dialogue and color, the director wants to highlight Steven Spielberg's genius during the time staging was not as advanced.
- Sep 24, 2014
AceShowbiz - While his schedule was vacant, Steven Soderbergh toyed with another filmmaker's work and made it his own version. The director, who once mashed up Alfred Hitchcock and Gus Van Sant's "Psycho", has debuted a black-and-white and dialogue-free version of Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
"So I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are," Soderbergh explained what he had done. "See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot - whether short or long - held for that exact length of time and placed in that order?"
Eliminating the speech, Soderberg added new score mostly consisting of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' work for David Fincher's "The Social Network" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)". He said, "Oh, and 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."
The two-hour long video can be watched on Extension 765.
