Jack1000
12-21-2003, 10:04 PM
Guys,
It is amazing to me the amount of movies that are produced today that have alternate versions of the same film, where scenes that you will see in one form of the movie, are not present in other forums of the same movie. Even HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax, while they may claim to show movies uncut. (Meaning that they don't do anything to them when they get them from the distributer) Alternate versions of filmes can vary from their premium channel, to VHS tapes, to even DVD versions! I will open up this thread to a discussion of different versions of the same movie that I can remember:
48 Hours has several scenes of Eddie Murphy and his girlfriend in his apartment on regular TV versions that are not in the theatrical or VHS versions
Airplane! has the famous scene with Ted Stricker seeing a friend call out to him where he says, "Hi Ted!" Ted answers back, "Hi Jack!" and the friend is taken away by security! This scene is only on commerical TV versions.
The Jerk has a scene with Navin talking to Mr. Hartoonian in different formats. TV editions show the outside of the restroom, while other theatrical and premioum channels show Navin inside the restroom. TV editions have added dialoge that elaborates on Naven making $1.10 an hour and show Navin on the Ferris wheel ride saying that "he was so broke he had to spin." These scenes are avaliable nowhere else.
Gross Anatomy has a scene that I saw in the previews but wasn't on Showtime when it premiered. It showed Matthew Modine's charactor being interviewed by one of the professors and he is asked, "Why are you here?" Modine's answer is, "I look good in white." This was not included on Showtime editions of the film. Additionally there is a line by one of the students when they are talking in a bar saying that he wants to work in a "quality hospital, with quality pateints." on Showtimes version of the movie, the same line is said in the background very quietly while the focuss is on Modine in other, much louder dialoge.
The original version of Superman had several scenes during it's first release that were cut for later releases to Pay TV and video. It's been years since I have seen that film but I seem to remember one scene where Superman gets a cat out of a tree, that was not in subsequent editions of the movie.
Years ago, my dad saw The Godfather on HBO and thought that there were a couple of scenes of diagoge missing from when he first saw it back in 1972.
People think that you are always getting complete uncut films, and that any pay-tv, video, or DVD version is the ONLY version that is out there, and sadly, that is not always the case! Why would they edit movies like that from release to release?
Jack
It is amazing to me the amount of movies that are produced today that have alternate versions of the same film, where scenes that you will see in one form of the movie, are not present in other forums of the same movie. Even HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax, while they may claim to show movies uncut. (Meaning that they don't do anything to them when they get them from the distributer) Alternate versions of filmes can vary from their premium channel, to VHS tapes, to even DVD versions! I will open up this thread to a discussion of different versions of the same movie that I can remember:
48 Hours has several scenes of Eddie Murphy and his girlfriend in his apartment on regular TV versions that are not in the theatrical or VHS versions
Airplane! has the famous scene with Ted Stricker seeing a friend call out to him where he says, "Hi Ted!" Ted answers back, "Hi Jack!" and the friend is taken away by security! This scene is only on commerical TV versions.
The Jerk has a scene with Navin talking to Mr. Hartoonian in different formats. TV editions show the outside of the restroom, while other theatrical and premioum channels show Navin inside the restroom. TV editions have added dialoge that elaborates on Naven making $1.10 an hour and show Navin on the Ferris wheel ride saying that "he was so broke he had to spin." These scenes are avaliable nowhere else.
Gross Anatomy has a scene that I saw in the previews but wasn't on Showtime when it premiered. It showed Matthew Modine's charactor being interviewed by one of the professors and he is asked, "Why are you here?" Modine's answer is, "I look good in white." This was not included on Showtime editions of the film. Additionally there is a line by one of the students when they are talking in a bar saying that he wants to work in a "quality hospital, with quality pateints." on Showtimes version of the movie, the same line is said in the background very quietly while the focuss is on Modine in other, much louder dialoge.
The original version of Superman had several scenes during it's first release that were cut for later releases to Pay TV and video. It's been years since I have seen that film but I seem to remember one scene where Superman gets a cat out of a tree, that was not in subsequent editions of the movie.
Years ago, my dad saw The Godfather on HBO and thought that there were a couple of scenes of diagoge missing from when he first saw it back in 1972.
People think that you are always getting complete uncut films, and that any pay-tv, video, or DVD version is the ONLY version that is out there, and sadly, that is not always the case! Why would they edit movies like that from release to release?
Jack