Reflections in a Golden Eye (film)

The film was originally released with all scenes tinted with a gold filter, with only certain shades of reds (such as a rose) or greens not appearing in or approaching tints or shades of gold.<ref name=”goldpref”>{{cite book|title=American Cinematographer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNw4AQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=ASC Holding Corporation|page=18}}</ref> This effect is a reference to the houseboy’s drawing of a golden peacock in whose eye the world is a reflection.<ref name=”goldpref”/> As this version puzzled audiences, it was withdrawn within one week of release and replaced with a version processed in normal Technicolor.<ref name=”goldpref”/> Film critic Roger Ebert wrote:

The film was originally released with all scenes tinted with a gold filter, with only certain shades of reds (such as a rose) or greens not appearing in or approaching tints or shades of gold.<ref name=”goldpref”>{{cite book|title=American Cinematographer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNw4AQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=ASC Holding Corporation|page=18}}</ref> This effect is a reference to the houseboy’s drawing of a golden peacock in whose eye the world is a reflection.<ref name=”goldpref”/> As this version puzzled audiences, it was withdrawn within one week of release and replaced with a version processed in normal Technicolor.<ref name=”goldpref”/> Film critic Roger Ebert wrote:

<blockquote>”Since the film was photographed in full color and the ‘fading’ was done in post-production, most of the video versions have simply restored the color. That’s not what Huston intended, and the thing to do is to use your color adjustment to fade the color to almost but not quite b&w. Does it work? That’s for you to decide.”<ref>Roger Ebert, [http://www.rogerebert.com/answer-man/black-and-white-in-color-or-vice-versa “Black and White in color? Or vice-versa?”], ”[[RogerEbert.com]]”, March 28, 2011.</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>”Since the film was photographed in full color and the ‘fading’ was done in post-production, most of the video versions have simply restored the color. That’s not what Huston intended, and the thing to do is to use your color adjustment to fade the color to almost but not quite b&w. Does it work? That’s for you to decide.”<ref>Roger Ebert, [http://www.rogerebert.com/answer-man/black-and-white-in-color-or-vice-versa “Black and White in color? Or vice-versa?”], ”[[RogerEbert.com]]”, March 28, 2011.</ref></blockquote>

A 2020 two-disc [[Blu-Ray]] release of the film by [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]] features both Huston’s intended version of the film and the re-color-timed reissued version.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-16 |title=Reflections in a Golden Eye Blu-ray Review |url=https://www.hometheaterforum.com/reflections-in-a-golden-eye-blu-ray-review/ |access-date=2021-12-18 |website=Home Theater Forum |language=en-US}}</ref>

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