The director's cut of Apocalypse Now... Posted Sat Nov 11 10:25:54 GMT 2000 by 'Phil'

...adds a whole extra hour of material. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of this film, but surely it was long enough already?



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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Sat Nov 11 10:27:12 GMT 2000:

Christ, that's gonna be one long film, I didn't think there was much more violence to be shown?


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Posted By Mogwai on Sat Nov 11 10:37:49 GMT 2000:

>...adds a whole extra hour of material.

Christ. What's he done, left all that stuff in about "I swallowed a bug"?


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Posted By 'Peter O' on Sat Nov 11 10:47:18 GMT 2000:

I think it's mainly footage of the film crew pushing Marlon up the hill to that hut.


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Posted By 'Peter O' on Sat Nov 11 10:54:34 GMT 2000:

And er.... Christ.

Didn't want to be "Mr No-Christ."


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Posted By 'Blipvert' on Sat Nov 11 21:38:46 GMT 2000:

Can we just have the cinema cut (slaughtered bull getting a bigger seeing to) on video and leave it at that? Ta.


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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Sun Nov 12 00:12:58 GMT 2000:

> the cinema cut (slaughtered bull getting a bigger seeing to)

What kind of seeing to, exactly? I mean, I don't know what kind of cinemas you frequent.


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Posted By 'Emmanuelle' on Sun Nov 12 21:58:38 GMT 2000:

Peter O -

pushing Marlon B up the hill to that hut....woooohaaaaaahahaaa! Ace.

Could be a long one. And is Bob Marley gonna be in the special?


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Posted By 'Blipvert' on Mon Nov 13 03:01:07 GMT 2000:

>> the cinema cut (slaughtered bull getting a bigger seeing to)

The cinema version, when it gets an outing in some dead-end 'midnight screening' at your local mutiplex, is slightly longer than the video edit. There is quite a bit of the sacrificial killing missing on the video. Lots of close ups of the perforated carcass.

I'm not trying to be distasteful, but the ending is a lot more effective with that section included.


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Posted By 'Al' on Mon Nov 13 20:58:34 GMT 2000:

Does anyone know what version was screened on C4 - the video or the cinema version?


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Posted By 'Blipvert' on Tue Nov 14 08:02:11 GMT 2000:

The video version. Always.


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Posted By 'PJ' on Tue Nov 14 12:10:13 GMT 2000:

Two sections that could be added - one where they meet the french people (which can be seen in the Hearts of Darkness doc.), and another where they shag the playboy girls - i've read the script, and niether of the scenes really addd anything. They shjould leave it alone.


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