Indiana Jones in black and white! This great director completely turned the tables on Spielberg’s film, but why?

Steven Soderbergh is a passionate director, a known cinephile, a true jack of all trades, and moreover, a technophile who likes to experiment with new materials while filming. But it also burns with a consuming passion that few know about, except in insider circles of course. His great hobby is editing… and re-editing films.

It even gets personal—a very important nuance given the legal problems that will inevitably arise—to imagine very personal versions of movie classics. In 2015, A Re-editing of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece2001 is a space odyssey. He also edited a version of Michael Cimino’s cursed masterpiece Heaven’s Gate into a 108 minute edit (!) or Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Indie in black and white

In 2014, he directly performed a new version of the first part of the adventures of Indiana Jones, The Lost Ark. Yes Yes ! And not just a little. Say goodbye to all colors and make way for black and white. No dialogue. Also gone is the John Williams soundtrack, as is the Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross soundtrack, taken from The Social Network and Millenium: Men Who Don’t Like Women.

is turned on His personal siteThis is how he explained his approach and made it clear that it was “For educational purposes”. The main thing Soderbergh wants is for us to look with fresh eyes at the impeccable craftsmanship of Steven Spielberg’s shots.

“See if you can replicate the thought process that led to those choices and ask yourself: Why was each shot—short or long—at that time and placed in that order? he writes

“Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? At least it does to me. Oh, and I’ve taken all the sounds and colors from the film, except for some of the music, which is designed to help you in your quest, just explore the visual approach to the director.

Result ? We’ll let you be the judge! To view this version, it is so !