I just got the old dvd release of sorcerer and noticed it looked vertically stretched… So I changed the aspect to 16:9 in VLC and it looks reasonably better horizontally stretched and filling the screen.

Any after watching it this way the other night I started thinking about the flashbacks of the characters baclstories in wages of fear but putting them all in the village before the terrorist attack and the opening credits. To me it feels like this was perhaps the way it was meant to play out.

Note scanlon waking from nightmare after his story.
Conversation regarding kaseem (no future).
Victor drinking in the bar after his story.
Nico the assasin into the plane arriving.

No flash back for Marquez though…

Anyway this seemed natural placement rather than the wages of fear botch job…Obviously inserting full or mostly full versions of the flash backs would be the premise for that idea…