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Another Deleted scene?
Wreeah:
I think the film should be left alone as it is now. There's some small tiny things I wish had been included, but the way the film currently flows (and what the audience is and isn't alowed to see) works on many levels. To include any of those deleted scenes might change the emotional impact or perception of a scene.
However, I'd still be curious to see the scenes that were removed in a 'special feature' option on the DVD.
Shakesthecoffecan:
Oh, okay, understand. So, I would call it maybe "An expanded edition"? or "The version with comentary"? I guess. I'll tell you what, I know more about the movie industry than I did this time last year. Makes me want to pack up and head west and get a job as a gaffer or something.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on October 10, 2006, 05:43:33 pm ---We need to start a campaign, we need to write Focus Features and demonstrate to them the viability for them and the need by us for a director's cut version.
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I do hope an expanded DVD is released with at least that cemetery scene included. The still gives me the impression that it belongs in the film, as some of the other deleted scenes I've heard described do not.
My DVD version of Mists of Avalon has a section with scenes that were deleted, with a subtitle explaining why they weren't included. The DVD version of Dances With Wolves, on the other hand, edited some missing scenes back in and as a result the DVD is a significant improvement over the original theatre version.
nakymaton:
I don't like having deleted scenes added back into a movie... unless the movie really lacked something to begin with. (Like a character's motivation for a particular action, or the emotional response to something.)
I don't think BBM lacks anything. The cemetary scene looks poignant... but I think that the two closets convey Ennis's sense of loss, and I think that their power would be diminished by showing more.
I think this movie is a masterpiece, in part, because of what it doesn't show or doesn't say. Because it leaves so much up to the viewer. So while I want to see every little piece of footage that was shot, I don't want to see it within the movie. (And I really, really, really don't want to see an extended version become known as the "real" movie, as has happened with the Lord of the Rings movies.)
Commentary tracks, though... I would like those.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on October 11, 2006, 10:29:48 am ---Oh, okay, understand. So, I would call it maybe "An expanded edition"? or "The version with comentary"? I guess.
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I like "expanded edition." :D
--- Quote ---I'll tell you what, I know more about the movie industry than I did this time last year. Makes me want to pack up and head west and get a job as a gaffer or something.
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How about "best boy"? Always thought that had a nice ring to it. You want a be somebody's "best boy," Shakes? ;D
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