Justin_S
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That slipcover rules. Anyway, can't wait to pick this up! Outstanding film, long time coming. Nice to see its so cheap.
I'll probably buy this one anyway for the extras, but I'm extremely disappointed that we got the censored version. Universal released the film worldwide on DVD with the graphic violence intact. I realize it's very brief, but nonetheless it is the version censored to achieve an R rating. This is Eyes Wide Shut all over again. I definitely won't be parting with my Korean disc.
David Lynch was heavily involved with the release of this DVD. If he had wanted the *Dafoe scene* left intact as it was on the international release prints, MGM would have gladly made this title an UNRATED DVD. However, as it stands Lynch wanted the original US print used for the US DVD edition with no deleted scenes on the side. By the way, for those that do not know those deleted scenes are in usable condition.
David Lynch was heavily involved with the release of this DVD. If he had wanted the *Dafoe scene* left intact as it was on the international release prints, MGM would have gladly made this title an UNRATED DVD. However, as it stands Lynch wanted the original US print used for the US DVD edition with no deleted scenes on the side.
The cut that Lynch submitted to the MPAA originally, is the cut on the Universal DVD from Korea/Brazil/UK etc. It wasn't until it received an "X" that he was forced to cut the film. If Lynch really preferred the censored version, then he would've submitted it that way to begin with.
I will agree though that it obviously wasn't enough of a priority or else perhaps he would've fought for it.
Jeff
clearly Lynch doesn't have as much control over what other countries put out as he does here
Lynch has before prepared alternative prints of his movies when they go overseas. Honestly, the optical smokescreen effect does not detract from the movie. In the UK, the opening scene of Wild at Heart has frames missing due to their censorship boards feelings toward the brutality of sequence.
lemme get this straight... people are complaining because the dvd doesn't include footage that WASN'T in the movie? And the word censorship is used?
No, not all of us. The shotgun blast is obviously something the MPAA objected to in its uncensored form (instead of being an independent creative decision by Lynch), and whether or not Lynch ultimately preferred the obscured version or simply didn't want to bother fighting over the issue, I would like to own a version with the effect uncensored. In this case I don't really care what Lynch thinks (although of course I'd love to see the original long cut of the film). But the R1 is clearly the best version in other ways, which is why I asked for the screen caps.
BTW: I'd like to point out that Lynch has gone the way of digital fogging before in the case of the Mulholland Dr. DVD - and he clearly stated that it was out of respect for Laura Harring. My point is that although the DVD was "Lynch approved", the version of the film was altered out of politeness instead of purely artistic reasons.
The other countries have Lynch's final cut. The U.S. version had to be altered for the R rating. It has nothing to with Lynch having control.Dune said:Quote:
When an artist turns in his work only to be told he has to alter it from its original intention, then yes...that is a form of censorship.
As I said before, your definition of censorship does not fit this scenario. He wasn't told to alter his film or it wouldn't be released, he was told that if he didn't alter it, the film would receive an X rating. Lynch made the choice himself to alter his film and take the R rating.