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| richfed |
Posted - January 02 2004 : 7:44:01 PM
Not to spread rumors or anything ... I have little information that anything of the sort is true ...
But ...
Coupled with Daire's comments in the Theater version DVD thread, this may prove interesting ... or, completely meaningless.
Sitting in the break room at work this afternoon, eating my Chinese food, my Postmaster walked in and said, "Rich, I meant to tell you. I heard something on TV the other day about an airing of The Last of the Mohicans with never-before-seen footage."
Hmmm ... unfortunately, he couldn't remember when, where, how, or even what channel he heard that on. Postmasters these days!!! 
Keep an ear out, though!! |
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| GP |
Posted - April 25 2004 : 05:19:46 AM
Here's a third re-posting of my message on this board. Not sure which thread would be the most useful one....
I bought a copy of this DVD online, a Region 4 encoded DVD from EzyDVD.com in Australia. I am not exactly sure what version it is. I do not have a copy of an Original Theatrical Version on VHS or laserdisk, and it has been so long since I've watched this movie in the theater that I am no longer exactly sure what was in the Original Version, and what was taken out from it in the Director's Cut.
My best guess is that this movie is the "new" version that people have been talking about on this board. I believe that it is most likely a synthesis of the Original Version and the Director's Cut.
In this Region 4 DVD:
The Clannad song is back. Chingachgook's speech at the end has been truncated again, so that he stops talking after saying the line "...I, Chingachgook, the Last of the Mohicans". Most of Hawkeye's smart-alecky comments that were deleted from the Director's Cut video are back. Cora's comment to Hawkeye, telling him to escape so that one of them can live on (in the waterfall scene), is back. In these ways, this Australian DVD is like the Original Theatrical version.
Some of the scenes that were added for the Director's Cut, e.g., at the fort, etc., have been deleted again, and so this also appears to be more like the Original Theatrical Version.
However, certain other scenes that I remember from the Original Theatrical version are still just like the Director's Cut. The most memorable scene that I recall is the meadow massacre scene - the Original Theatrical Version had this very striking single camera tracking shot of Hawkeye running right at the camera, whacking Hurons right and left as he raced towards Cora. The Director's Cut replaced this somewhat stylized shot, which was reminiscent of a Hong-Kong/Kung fu fight scene, with a chopped up and slower and more methodical scene with multiple camera cuts of Hawkeye and Chingachgook and Uncas working their way through the meadow.
Several other scenes that I recall from the Original Theatrical Version are also missing still. There were a few brief shots of Uncas and Alice looking at each other that were cut out of the Director's Cut. These are still missing. There was a shot of a shirtless Hawkeye (not the bedroom arrest scene) confronting General Munroe that is still missing. Perhaps my memory fails me and I am just hallucinating the memories of these scenes, but I do seem to remember them. The brief shots of Uncas-Alice together were very important, IMHO, to set up their subtle love story. No new scenes appear to have been added.
I am trying to get hold of a true Original Theatrical version on VHS tape right now. When I have found one, I can do a more thorough comparison.
By the way, you do not need a region-free DVD player to play this DVD. I used DVD Decrypter, a bit of free software that is readily available on the Internet, to strip off all the encoding for the DVD files. Just set the new DVD file up as an IFO file (you can break up the file sizes to anything that you want), and use most of the default settings for this program, and away you go. You can use almost any computer DVD player and player software (I use PowerDVD) to generate and play the cracked VOB file that is the end product of DVD Decrypter The VOB file that is generated will NOT play on a standard, non-computer DVD player designed to hook up to a TV. There are some more sophisticated DVD cracking software that can do this sort of work, but these were either fairly complicated (too hard for me to understand, anyway), or wanted money, so I didn't bother with them.
Here's the URL for the Last of the Mohicans DVD on the EZYDVD site:
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/219306
Here's the URL for the DVD Decrypter software:
http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
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| daire |
Posted - January 18 2004 : 8:04:47 PM
Maybe we should secretly find a film editor whiz and have them combine the two version like we want and keep it for ourselves. LOL
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| richfed |
Posted - January 18 2004 : 08:41:24 AM
As I've - we've - heard nothing else, it would appear there is nothing to this - send it off to the scrap heap, I guess.
It would appear to be another case of a Postmaster licking too many stamps! |
| Highlander |
Posted - January 03 2004 : 04:52:30 AM
quote:
Originally posted by richfed
Not to spread rumors or anything ... I have little information that anything of the sort is true ...
But ...
Coupled with Daire's comments in the Theater version DVD thread, this may prove interesting ... or, completely meaningless.
Sitting in the break room at work this afternoon, eating my Chinese food, my Postmaster walked in and said, "Rich, I meant to tell you. I heard something on TV the other day about an airing of The Last of the Mohicans with never-before-seen footage."
Hmmm ... unfortunately, he couldn't remember when, where, how, or even what channel he heard that on. Postmasters these days!!!
Keep an ear out, though!!
Could it be The Director's Cut that is already on DVD? It is unlikely that anything else could get past us. |
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