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Which DVD out now is the best to own? I've read around the internet and have no reason to suspect the "soon-to-appear" 3 volume DVD will ever see the light of day, therefore I figure I'll pick up a 1 disc DVD version.The link below mentions a "region all" Widescreen Harrison Ford voiceover internatinal version "with additional violence scenes" for $12.99.
However, I don't see this listed at what I assume to be the authoritative www.dvd-basen.uk. What gives?
townsend
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The reason we know exactly what type of person Deckard was in the director's cut is because we SAW the original narrated version! He conveyed much about his own personality, motives and guilts that were simply missing from the new version. I thought it was just downright hollow. Remember, the love, admiration and cult following for this awesomely stylistic movie was the result of what the original had given us.
The original theatrical release is actually more violent. The one blot on the director's cut, which I find far superior for lack of voice over (though it retains some patently clumsy and unnecessary voice over by Walsh during his and Ford's suspect-review), has actually been sanitized some: the nail-through-the-hand and Hannah's death scene (she originally and chillingly spent way more time kicking and screaming) have been shortened, and I think the abridgement is noticable, even if you've never seen the theatrical release. Maybe the three-disk set will correct this.Why this happened, I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the "aweful editing" of the theatrical release could refer to, visually speaking.
Hey townsend,The only reason that narration was added was that the studio was concerned that the audience was too stupid to follow the plot; it wasn't because of any noirish homage. As I recall the music was changed too; it was apparently altered because the studio execs were concerned about the ending being too dark and wanted a more upbeat ending that was less confusing. Ridley Scott disagreed with the studio but didn't have enough clout and finally yeilded to the studio and made the proposed changes. However, when an alternate version (European?) was released that was closer to the pre-release version 10 years later the public loved the changes and so Scott went back and recut the film as he had originally envisioned it. Trust me, the Director's cut is DA BOMB! :o)
AuPh
Kills the voice over, and presents, IMO, a more coherent version.
Jack
I found this version as being vastly inferior as the first " original " one.
A matter of taste, I suppose.
That looks like the original theatrical release, which has the narration and awful editing. I don't think that's ever been officially released to DVD, it might be a bootleg. Look for the version below, the "Director's Cut," if it doesn't say Director's Cut, you don't want it.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
I looked around for that darn thing too, I settled for a vhs. Scott fixed something that wasn't broke and won't release the good version on dvd, sorta like Lucas not giving us the original Star Wars versions either(got those tapes too).
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