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Has anyone noticed that some DVD issues have been re-edited? I don't mean additional scenes which are normally well advertised to entice you to purchase yet another edition, but cuts which are not advertised at all.
I have the Chinese issue of House of Flying Dagger and there are a couple of scenes which differ from the US version. In the final battle scene, just before the two male protangonist meat, the Chinese version has Zhang Ziyi whisper a warning, but that has been completely edited out in the US release. The Chinese version also has a scene where you can see her blood gushing out as she throws the dagger.
I no longer have my laser disc of Casablanca but I also seem to recall the scene where Bogart escorts his previous girl friend out of the bar was a bit longer and actually showed him walking her through a doorway.
All of this is relatively minor stuff, but it makes me wonder what else has been changed in other movies which I am not so familiar with.Stu
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Although editing may occur on certain foriegn films (i.e., non- u.s. origin) I find it hard tobelieve that "Casablanca" would ne altered in any way.
Its quite a common complaint with imported movies. Mirimax is universally hated for this reason. They butchered Shoalin Soccer. I buy the imported version whenever possible.
I also refuse to buy the original Star Wars trilogy because it was very noticably altered.
Jack
Star Wars THX Letterbox edition on Laserdisc, the best verison available of the original, unmodified version.Laserdiscs are still great for getting good quality transfers of unscrewed-with movies. A few are actually superior, video-wise, to their DVD counterparts, particularly for earlier DVD's with a lot of compression artifacts.
Of course, a good LD player is going to cost a lot more than a good DVD player.
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