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Post #183567

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ocpmovie
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
19-Feb-2006, 3:29 AM
Discoveries --

I DO have a copy of the Arabian Knight trailer - it's on the Japanese DVD! I didn't notice it there because I can't read the Japanese text. Stumbled across it.

It's not a bad trailer actually, they made some of the same editing decisions I did while putting together my trailer, and some of the editing decisions I thought about and decided NOT to make.

I remember how unimpressed I was with it when I saw it in the theater as a kid though. They put in a lot of badly-animated Calvert shots, and you do think, hey, Aladdin clone. Even as a kid though, I thought about it later and eventually made the connection that this was actually "The Roger Rabbit director's big movie he kept talking about, but under a different name ..."

Weirdly, the Old Witch appears in the trailer briefly, along with a few shots from the war machine scene that don't survive in the Arabian Knight cut.

The trailer is in widescreen so I'll be swiping those shots. =)

Of course the trailer will appear on the DVD.

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Also, in the scene where King Nod makes a big speech to his subjects, the Miramax/Calvert edits seem to have used the original voice track of Sir Anthony Quayle for King Nod! Probably by accident. Although their sound mix is rather too noisy as usual, I think I'll use this track in my edit, because ... wow ... the real voice of King Nod slipping into the Miramax edit, for an entire scene. That's something.

The scene where Nod talks to Yumyum about the witch is the weirdest scene to edit -- it's driving me mad. The only thing Williams animated were some silent inserts of The Thief and Tack which are really lengthy (and are even more lengthy in the Miramax edit than in the workprint) ... they take up most of the running time, so six years ago when I edited this, I did some really weird editing of the Calvert footage of Nod and Yumyum, syncing it, kind of, to the Williams audio. It's a weird scene. I can't quite figure it out ... still trying.