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Originally Posted by joenostalgia23
Nobody is denying the fact that there is a change in color correction.
And an intentional green tint added to just the first one of three films has been done exactly before:
The Matrix was revised for the DVD and Blu-ray releases so that the color timing would match up with its two sequels.
It's a pretty good chance that Peter Jackson intentionally changed the colors for this film because he wished that the films would look more like the other two. I just watched the theatrical edition Blu-rays four days ago, and the first film looks "warmer" than the other two. While Saruman carries this yellow-greenish tint(he wasn't to appear white, but off-white) in TTT, he looks a bit pink in FOTR. Not so "pink" that it disturbs me, but the same could be said about how "green" Saruman is.
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Hello joe,
Do you not see that your comparison to what happened with the Matrix is nearly the opposite of what's going on here?
With the Matrix, a decision was made while making the two sequels a few years after the original film came out. Then the filmmakers decided to go back to the original and adjust the color timing to match look of the sequels when in the matrix.
With LOTR, we have 3 movies that were filmed pretty much at the same time, each of which used very specific and intentional color grading during post-processing, and all 3 films blended well in terms of coloring (the issue of picture quality is a generally a separate one). Yes there were some different color choices made in specific scenes of the different movies, but as a whole they flowed together nicely in terms of their color, and that's how it stayed through the TE DVDs, the EE DVDs, and the TE Blu-Rays released about a year ago.
But now, with the EE Blu-Rays, a blanket color change has been made to just the first of the three films that sets it noticeably apart from both of the other films, which remain relatively untouched from the state they've been in all these years. For this one film in the trilogy, they've adjusted the white-point to something akin to a pea green, losing some of the fine detail and removing every single trace and pixel of pure white in the entire film, utterly muting many of the rich colors in the film (compare the clothing on the hobbits between TE Blu and EE Blu), even though all the pure white has been left unmolested in the other two films.
Also, for those claiming the tint is actually bluish or teal as opposed to green, I don't believe this is correct. The best spot to look for the color of the tint is in a scene that would otherwise have pure white, and the best scene for that would seem to be the fade to white just before Frodo wakes in Rivendell, which is definitely a pea green color. Even if that fade was slightly off-white, it would still mean that the blanket tint was a slightly more vibrant pea green color, not blue or teal, which, by the way, would not be much better because any blanket tint to the whole film would have a negative impact.
This state of affairs just doesn't scream "intentional change" or "artistic choice". It screams "mistake". No reason that has been offered for why FOTR alone would have been subjected to this wholesale change makes even a lick of sense.
Take care,
HeKS