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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
I don't have so much a division about B&W versus color, but I am much more invested in movies post what I call The Bonnie and Clyde Divide.
The shift from studio-styling with mid-Atlantic accents to French New Wave influence and verisimilitude.
The transition that saw us moving from Sound of Music, Oliver Twist, and Dr. Zhivago to The Graduate and The Godfather in a few short years.
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I think those styles have their places and help tell a story by controlling the very reality that the story is based in. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, for me. Kubrick has what I think of as a very clean visual style that is more similar to something like The Sound Of Music from your list. That worked well in 2001 and the first part of Full Metal Jacket. Both space ships and Boot Camps are artificially clean environments. But it fell through for me as Full Metal Jacket moved out into the 'real world' and then fell flat during scenes of combat. Too clean.