See MAD MAX: FURY ROAD in Black and White

A few months ago, Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller spoke with Edgar Wright about Miller's newly-released movie, and said the following:

"One thing I’ve noticed is that the default position for everyone is to de-saturate post-apocalyptic movies. There’s only two ways to go, make them black and white — the best version of this movie is black and white, but people reserve that for art movies now. The other version is to really go all-out on the color. The usual teal and orange thing? That’s all the colors we had to work with. The desert’s orange and the sky is teal, and we either could de-saturate it, or crank it up, to differentiate the movie. Plus, it can get really tiring watching this dull, de-saturated color, unless you go all the way out and make it black and white."

Miller reportedly fought for a black and white version of the movie to appear on the Blu-ray release with no dialogue, but for whatever reason, that didn't happen. Now an anonymous film student has created a black and white (or "black and chrome") version with only the so we can see the movie closer to how Miller intended.

Since the film's colors are so vibrant, it's strange to watch it with all of that stripped away, and the black and white colors add an almost otherworldly quality to the visuals. It definitely makes me appreciate the music more, though, since I was so taken aback by what Miller and his team were able to accomplish on my first viewing that I barely even registered that there was a score in the background. Check it out below:

Via: io9