10 Black And White Films For People Who Don't Watch Black And White Movies
Black and white photography went out of vogue a very long time ago with the advent of colour and that is a real shame. Colour can really add to a film but there's just something classic and simplistic about a black and white movie that is very difficult to capture. Orson Welles famously said that filming in black and white is an actor's friend because every performance is better without colour. While that is a bold statement there is a great deal of weight in it because the lack of colour draws the audience into the scene in a more simplistic way than when the film makes full use of colour. The viewer isn't focusing on the surroundings of the actor or any other things like the colour of an actor's eyes of the colours of the environment. All the attention is being paid to the gravity of the performances in the film which helps a viewer to connect with a character in a very different way. Colour definitely has many advantages and many interesting ways that it can benefit a movie but, as you'll see with my 10 choices here, black and white has its own way of making a film stand out. I now present to you 10 black and white films that everyone should see.