overdosed on the original back then, to the point where now I don't think I could bare to watch again. Not seen the cut, what's the deal?― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:12 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:12 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah I only saw it once and I was really excited, but basically all it does is add in a lot of unnecessary expository scenes which spelled-out a lot of the more mysterious stuff. Plus they swapped around a lot of the music so the awesome "Head Over Heels" opening sequence was soundtracked by a different song and it just didn't work.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
what song was it? "My Ding a Ling"?
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
IIRC it was "Mad World" but it didn't work anywhere as close to as well as "Head Over Heels". That tracking shot was for a long time one of my favourite bits of any film because the music and the camera matched up so nicely. Opening the film with "Mad World" set a completely different tone for the movie.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
They used "Mad World" a second time in the director's cut? In the original, the "Head Over Heels" sequence near the start--the camera snaking through the halls of the school, with stop-motion speeding up and slowing down at intervals--is great, but so is "Mad World" at the end, the montage after the explosion. I wouldn't want to mess with either.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
The ease with which this can be discovered is going to make us look silly but I think the opener on initial release was The Killing Moon. That was swapped out for INXS - Never Tear Us Apart which was supposedly the original first choice.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
I quite like The Killing Moon and Head Over Heals but the film made me a bigger fan of both.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
Wasn't the opening credits song swap "The Killing Moon" (theatrical cut) for "Never Tear Us Apart?" I initially took "The Killing Moon" as a gag (Bunnymen--get it?), but Kelly claims that he had always wanted the INXS song for the opening. Really, the DC is just a bunch of examples of how Kelly didn't really seem to understand what it was that worked about his own film.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
"The Killing Moon"--not a fan, but it worked fine--did open the original. INXS would be a terrible trade for almost anything.
I sure hope they didn't mess with Sparkle Motion and "Notorious," in which case I'd have to doubt their commitment.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
(By the way--I think any teacher who's sat through a couple of dozen school talent shows will understand the genius of Sparkle Motion. And they're like the ultimate time capsule. I think the first year I taught, we had two or three Spice Girls routines; midway, it'd be Katy Perry; by the time I finished, Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
dance routines are a huge step up from the school talent show performances I remember. it was all lip syncing. watching some poor schmuck mouth like a robot to Weird Al's "yoda", holding a yoda doll and body otherwise completely still. i've a clear and horrible memory of one kid wearing a hawaiian shirt, holding a pineapple, and singing a song that went "oh mama, let me taste the mango. oh mama, let me taste the mango. oh mama, let me taste the mango. i like to eat sweet juicy fruit."
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
The ease with which this can be discovered is going to make us look silly but I think the opener on initial release was The Killing Moon. That was swapped out for INXS - Never Tear Us Apart which was supposedly the original first choice.― Noel Emits, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:52 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:52 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah yes, my bad. You are correct.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link