Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physical, admit the outraged. The damage is to art and to taste. Colorization turns art into junk...
Well, yes. The colors are dismal. The film is distorted. The director's intentions are trashed. It is true that most old films are junk anyway, so colorizing them would turn dank junk into juiced-up junk. It is also true that watching Casablanca for the chiaroscuro lighting rather than the dialogue is a bit like buying Playboy for the articles. The charge of philistinism is slightly overdrawn. But, on the whole, only slightly...
Grant, nevertheless, that colorization does turn art into junk. Our culture produces megatons of junk every year. Why not let the market decide? What's with the boycotts? If the colorized version is as bad as the critics claim, it will fail for good capitalist reasons. No one will watch it. When enough people lose enough money in any venture, it dies; 3-D died. At best (or worst), colorization might carve out a market niche for a small group of cultural illiterates, the video equivalent of Classic Comics...
...critics' real fear is that colorization will win the market. Colorization will so corrupt tastes that people will lose their appreciation of the beauty of the black-and-white original. The original print will exist, but in a vault. In the culture it will die. Junk will drive...
...Streeters that more culprits were likely to be snared in the weeks and months ahead. Most intensely watched was the go-go investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, which had close ties to Boesky and ranked as Wall Street's leading financier of corporate raiders through high-yield, high-risk junk bonds...