Originally posted by: SammyTheBull
I'm just curious, what did you do with the additional scenes from the "Smithee" cut - did you add them in full-screen or did you cut them to make them look as if they were in proper ratio, matted? (I assume you took them from one of the official releases, and all the available DVDs with the Smithee version that I know of are in fullscreen and, unfortunately, it's not the open matted kind)
I'm just curious, what did you do with the additional scenes from the "Smithee" cut - did you add them in full-screen or did you cut them to make them look as if they were in proper ratio, matted? (I assume you took them from one of the official releases, and all the available DVDs with the Smithee version that I know of are in fullscreen and, unfortunately, it's not the open matted kind)
This special reedit of “DUNE” was prepared by us at Fanfiltration to satisfy fans whom have never been truly happy with “DUNE” in neither its truncated 1984 theatrical version, nor the version of the David Lynch film prepared specifically for television markets with extended (yet poorly edited) footage. In many places, scenes have been reedited to try and faithfully reconstruct David Lynch’s original vision of the film using the December 9, 1982 shooting script as a guide.
The film is presented in a “Pan & Scan” format; as no widescreen footage of the extended cut scenes is available at the current time of this reedit production.
For this fan–created reedit of “DUNE”, every attempt has been made to enhance grainy cutting–room–floor scenes that had been haphazardly inserted into the “Allen Smithee” television version. Fanfiltration’s computer–generated effects have been added to correct the missing “blue within blue eyes” that had been left unfinished in the Smithee version. We also applied color correction to make the clips match. These clips have been incorporated to allude to the dimension of the characters and plotlines in Frank Herbert’s “DUNE”.
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