Tema: El padrino (The Godfather, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola) y secuelas

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In an old interview with Gordy Willis from well before this restoration was a twinkle in RAH's eye he'd plainly said that his intention was to bathe the movie in a golden amber hue, they even used lights on-set that were warmer than the regulation 3200K tungsten to do this.

But for whatever reasons it seems it never quite made it into the final theatrical 'look' of the film so while the 2007 could definitely be considered as a revision in one sense, especially the retrofitting of Part III to match that golden look, it was actually something that Willis HAD intended all along and had even lit the movie for, yet it never translated across properly.

Reading between the lines it might be worth regarding the 2007 as the 'Willis/RAH Restoration' and call the 2022 iteration the actual 'Coppola Restoration'.



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By all accounts, I was color timed in 2007 to meticulously match the archived, I.B. Technicolor answer print that was held by the Academy Archive. Harris even said that said print had the lab sign-off papers from Gordon Willis from 1972 approving the color still in the film cans. II, on the other hand, didn't have a single perfect print- they had to Frankenstein one together from several different I.B. prints, picking the best looking scenes from each, in order to come up with a single, decent reference print. Since said print wasn't the ACTUAL answer-print, though, I'm sure they felt they had some leeway when it came to color timing II back then vs. I. And III, yeah, I believe you're right that they adjusted that one to more closely match the looks of I and II.