Blast to the past: Great videos of modern films given the silent movie treatment


Marty McFly became famous for going Back To The Future, but a web project now has him going in the other direction.

After prompting from an online forum, many technologically inclined cinephiles have turned memorable color classics into black-and-white silent films.

Along with actor Michael J. Fox's character going back in time, along with the more recent driving stunts of Ryan Gosling's character in last year's Drive.

Action sequence: The third instalment of Back To The Future, featuring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, was given the silent movie treatment

Action sequence: The third instalment of Back To The Future, featuring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, was given the silent movie treatment

Old timer: Doc Brown (left) may have his words taken away but cue cards (right) help
Old timer: Doc Brown (left) may have his words taken away but cue cards (right) help

Old timer: Doc Brown (left) may have his words taken away but cue cards (right) help

The assignment was doled out by Mission: DS106, a self-proclaimed 'anthology of new media projects'.

The site suggested that those inclined users should take a modern movie trailer and alter it so that it looks like a silent film of yesteryear, using music tracks and black-and-white conversions to 'make it look antiquated'.

Youtube user techsavvyed, who posted his silent movie version of a scene from the third instalment of the Back To The Future series, said that the challenge was appropriate given the current trends in the movie industry.

'After the huge success that The Artist had last year, and at the academy awards, it only seemed fitting that people start turning modern classics into "silent era" films,' the user wrote in his comments.

Family feud: The pivotal light saber fight between Luke Skywalker and his yet-undiscovered father Darth Vader from Star Wars was one person's focus
Family feud: The pivotal light saber fight between Luke Skywalker and his yet-undiscovered father Darth Vader from Star Wars was one person's focus

Family feud: The pivotal light saber fight between Luke Skywalker and his yet-undiscovered father Darth Vader from Star Wars was one person's focus

The example video on the Mission: DS160 site shows the drama of the pivotal light saber fight between Luke Skywalker and his yet-undiscovered father Darth Vader from Star Wars.

Given the high tech surroundings of Cloud City, the spritely piano underscore and the intermittent cue cards lend an old-fashioned feel to the scene.

Though the assignment suggested using trailers from modern movies, some users decided to focus in on particularly significant scenes from classics.

Hard to handle: The breakfast scene of Pulp Fiction, featuring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, took the user hours to produce

Hard to handle: The breakfast scene of Pulp Fiction, featuring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, took the user hours to produce

Paul Newman gearing up and downing 50 eggs in one hour in Cool Hand Luke is set to a banjo tune to keep up with the tempo of the wager.

Similarly, the breakfast scene in Pulp Fiction is given the silent treatment.

'It took hours to put together this six minute piece. Enjoy,' wrote the clip's creator, Youtube user transvideos1992.

Challenge: The egg scene in Cool Hand Luke is a favorite of many cinephiles

Challenge: The egg scene in Cool Hand Luke is a favorite of many cinephiles

A young Paul Newman steps up to the plate in the classic 1967 film

A young Paul Newman steps up to the plate in the classic 1967 film

Newer films, like Drive, Girl With Ye Old Dragon Tattoo and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows also provided inspiration for the cinephiles.

According to the Mission: DS106 site, 33 people have completed the assignment to date, though they are scattered across the internet only connected by the same tag 'VideoTutorials376'.

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