Esn, the Recobbled Rough Cut still exists if you prefer that edit. None of those musical cues are from Richard Williams' own vision, so I guess the point is just academic. I did bow to peer pressure in putting less Folk in the final edit, and there are good arguments for and against it.
In the end, it's just a music cue, whether edited ham-handedly by me or not.
Anyway, I'm writing because Arnaud's script has arrived! My friend Jason is going to hand it to me tomorrow at my going-away party. Many many many thanks to Arnaud for shelling out a HUGE amount of money to buy this incredible rare piece of Thief history .... the screenplay for what was then called "The Thief Who Never Gave Up." I am sure there is a huge amount of material in this script that didn't make it into the final film and I'm really, really excited to read it. This will be even more eye-opening than the Nasruddin script, significantly so since this is really the film we know, in its earlier as-scripted state ....
So once again we're gonna learn a ridiculous amount of bizarre trivia that makes us look at the film in a whole different way .... and I know I'm not the only one here who's nerdily into that. We've had fun here studying this little-known movie in too much detail.
So, that's tomorrow. I should be able to scan it in the remaining hours before the big move happens. OCR will fill the resulting text file chock full of typos, but I'll hopefully have time to correct at least some of it.
Many thanks again, Arnaud. I'm sending you a package chock full of DVDs -- I don't think it covers your generosity, but it should keep you occupied. =)