What’s wrong with this nearly 60-years-old, behind-the-scenes photo of the Elstree Studios filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it. The padded slipcover of the king-sized bed as well as the fabric upholstery on the 18th Century chair are the wrong color — muddy canppuccino brown. They should be soft green.
One immediately wonders if the Criterion vandal-beast Larry Smith had something to do with this. If it wasn’t Smith himself who injected the brown, it was certainly the fault of what we can now call a Larry Smith virus.
Smith’s legacy is irrevocably that of a visual liar, a flim-flammer — a guy who injected teal poisoning into the general color scheme of Criterion’s 4K Nluray of Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
