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"We spent a lot of time in DI (digital intermediate), and we had a very fine colorist, Eric Whipp. 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."

— George Miller stating his personal preference for Mad Max: Fury Road to be in black-and-white as the best version of the film. (x)

Personally, I think that the black-and-white version of Mad Max: Fury Road looks just as good as the hyper-saturated color version! And this one may be great for those people who have specific triggers involving super-colorful (and therefore, realistic) violent visuals like not standing the sight of gore, wounds, and red blood; sort of like how Quentin Tarantino did a black-and-white version for that ultra-violent and blood-soaked scene in Kill Bill, Vol 01 where The Bride fought off O-Ren Ishii’s private army in the House of Blue Leaves.