Tom Lowe
03-14-2008, 02:56 PM
I thought some of you might be interested. This is the Oscar Screener version of probably my favorite sequence in The New World:
http://s4.ytimg.com/vi/GbEf4J6HXyk/default.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbEf4J6HXyk)
The theatrical version is much shorter:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xn7hHKVrTMY/default.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7hHKVrTMY)
Both are incredibly beautiful, and music works a little better with the theatrical cut, but this opportunity to see an early Malick cut is definitely interesting to me. Malick reportedly obsesses over his editing. John Toll said that Malick would spend years in the editing room if the studios let him get away with it.
According to the producer Sarah Green and people Lubezki has spoken with, a very beautiful sequence of cinematography was shot for a love scene between Smith and Pocahontas, but SAG made them scrap the entire love scene because Kilcher was underaged. :waaa: I guess SAG would have censored the Oscar-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet too. :angry01:
http://s4.ytimg.com/vi/GbEf4J6HXyk/default.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbEf4J6HXyk)
The theatrical version is much shorter:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xn7hHKVrTMY/default.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7hHKVrTMY)
Both are incredibly beautiful, and music works a little better with the theatrical cut, but this opportunity to see an early Malick cut is definitely interesting to me. Malick reportedly obsesses over his editing. John Toll said that Malick would spend years in the editing room if the studios let him get away with it.
According to the producer Sarah Green and people Lubezki has spoken with, a very beautiful sequence of cinematography was shot for a love scene between Smith and Pocahontas, but SAG made them scrap the entire love scene because Kilcher was underaged. :waaa: I guess SAG would have censored the Oscar-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet too. :angry01: