Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

Re:Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on mo... by bloak on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:40AM (#35725567)

Not revising a film "based on modern sensitivity" is one thing, but what about films being released in a multitude of different versions right from the start? It annoys me when I discuss a film with someone else who's seen it and I find that some of the scenes in the version I saw were not in the version they saw, and vice versa. If you see a recent film on TV you can be pretty sure that you're watching a version that was specially edited to be shown on that TV channel in that country at that time of day. Sometimes you can look at the Wikipedia pages about a film in different languages and see wildly varying running times.

Not a recent film, but a while ago I finally got round to watching "The Exorcist" (1973) because it was on UK television. The "spider walk" scene was omitted in that particular edit!

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Re:Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on mo... by gambiting on Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:08AM (#35725811)

I think that's fine. To me that's no different than having a theatrical vs director's cut editions and what not. Even if ultimately the reason for the cut is censorship(see western films released in China) - it's still an official release, and not something edited later because someone got offended.

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Re:Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on mo... by bloodyludi on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:45AM (#35742751)

I've recently re-watched "The Butterfly Effect" (2004) and was surprised to see a completely different ending than I remembered. Turns out it's the director's cut I saw. The movie actually as 4 alternative endings of which I vastly prefer the original theatrical one.

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