I don't get it, try as I might I just can't comprehend it.
Mr Joe Bloggs director spends several million pounds coming up with his latest blockbuster film..........he films this that and the other.....then cuts the bits out that he doesn't like to leave his masterpiece and legacy for all the world to see.
6 months after it has finally dried up at the cinema it gets released on dvd, and this is where I get confused.
Invariably there are 2 forms of dvd release, 1 The original film and 2 the special extended version with all the cutting room floor crap stiched back in, and they charge us an extra 5 quid for this priviledge ? ?
It can't just be about the money cause that would just be plain old greedy and aren't they always telling us 'its my art' so why the hell do they put the deleted scenes back in ?
Hey I must get together with your hubby, i have worked in the film industry twice........once in rental but that stopped when i was 14 and me dad found me porn collection and stopped me charging me mates to borrow them, and then later in life worked on the popcorn stand in the local uci...............
I think this falls into 2 categories... firstly films that the studio butchered because they didn't like what the director did, and secondly films that lost bits to make them 'tighter and sharper'.
The prime example of type 1 is "Blade Runner". The version shown in cinemas had an entire layer of meaning and some subplots removed (Clues that Deckard is himself a replicant were taken out, as well as aelpxnation of the mechanical animals) and a wildly improbable happy ending tacked on (they didnt; even shoot a happy ending, they just got some stock footage from an airplane window and used a voice-over!). The director's cut is darker and more complex, and quite a different beast to the first cinema version.
The first Bridget Jones film is type 2 - the extras on the DVD were mildly funny diary-style comic asides that had no real bearing on the plot at all - there are a few similar bits left in the film, but having them all in would have been a bit over the top. I get the feeling they filmed 5 or 6 and left in the 2 or 3 that worked best. I don't recall there being a version of this DVD without the bonuses
I guess you're indicating at the DVD release of Titanic, with the alternate happy ending.... the ship doesn't sink :shock:
All a money making racket! I love it when an advert comes on the tv...*puts best narrator voice on*...."NEW to dvd, JAWS! See what you have never seen before on the tv or at the cinema. This new release comes with 10 minutes extra, an extended version of the classic. More human death than you could ever imagine in just ten extra minutes. You won't want to miss this! Out now for !"
Now i dont know if jaws has been re-released i was just using this as an example! :P
welcome to the wonderful world of cinematic politics.
directors, producers, artists, agents, studio bosses, screenings and demographics
everyone's an expert and everyone wants their say.
and at the end of it is some idiot who will buy all 5 special editions, remember it's called the film industry for a reason.
one day i might show you the joys of film editing, just need some suitable footage.
(i'll talk to Hornyred & you talk the NN, that would be an interesting film :twisted: )
Last week i watched 'The Butterfly Effect' on sky and a mate at work randomly watched it on dvd the same evening - dicussing it the next day he started talking about the ending - didn't have a clue what he was talking about - turns out the ending and few other scenes were completely different.
Very confusing - one ending left you happy the other sad - guess the sad one was the directors cut and the happy one the studios!!
