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Post #448800

Author
msycamore
Parent topic
THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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Date created
19-Oct-2010, 7:31 PM

Holy shit! This is fantastic!! :) Thanks, SilverWook for the comparison notes. With such a different cut I'm willing to believe this is actually the real thing. How this cut could suddenly be aired on television in Italy is a mystery but we are damn lucky that erri_wan caught it, thank you!

Very interesting, some of that dialogue you translated is also in the script:

69.   SCHOOL PLAZA

 SEN is sitting with his head in his hands.  Along one wall is a
 school with windows facing the plaza.  Children are playing
 various games in the center of the plaza.  One group forms a
 human labyrinth and tow children play tag in it.  Two children
 are standing apart from the others, one is adjusting a strange
 device of the other's arm.  After a few moments one child
 approached SEN.

      CHILD
    My inducer fell off.

      SEN
    (Looks up)
    What...?

 The child holds out his arm to SEN.  A small blue plastic
 pouch has detached from the underside of his arm.  He points at
 the other child standing in the background.

      CHILD
    3114 knocked it off.

      SEN
    (Confused)
    Oh?....

      CHILD
    He didn't mean to.

 SEN takes the pouch.  Printed on it are the words "Advanced
 primary economics 5867H"  It is filled with a creamy fluid
 which is dripping slowly out of the plastic tube.

      CHILD
    Look out!

 He grabs the pouch from SEN and pinches the tube shut.

      CHILD
     (Angry)
    What's the matter with you?

 The other child has come over and is watching.

      SEN
    I'm sorry...let me see it again.

 The child reluctantly gives him the pouch and SEN is careful to
 keep it upright.  Sticking out of the child's arm is a small
 plastic receptor tube.  SEN fits the pouch's tube into it.  The
 child looks at SEN.

      CHILD
    What are you doing here?  Where's
    your badge?

      SEN
     (Busy with the pouch)
    I'm an escaped felon.

 The two children look at each other wide-eyed.  The second backs
 off a little.

      FIRST CHILD
    You are not!  Why aren't you
    arrested?

 SEN looks up and smiles and motions the other child closer
 again.

      SEN
    I'm waiting to be picked up.
    Here, hold this...

 He hands the second child the first's pouch and tears a strip
 of cloth from his shirt.  He ties it around the arm holding
 the pouch secure.

      SEN
    There!

 The two children are fascinated, knowing whether to
 believe SEN or not.

      SECOND CHILD
    What's your name?

      SEN
    SEN 5241

      SECOND CHILD
    I'm 3114 and he's 1112

      SEN
    Hello....(looking at the pouch)
    How is that?  Any good....

      FIRST CHILD
    (Shrugs)  O K

      SEN
    When I was in school it was all
    different.  We had to lie in bed
    all the time.  ADVANCED PRIMARY
    ECONOMICS was a bottle about
    this big.... (he indicates a
    football sized object)  It took
    a week.

      CHILDREN
    Wow!

...and this is how the same scene play out in the US original cut:

SEN: What is that? An inducer? Did it fall off?

Kid: Yeah.

SEN: How do you...?

Kid: Look out what're you trying...

SEN: Oh, sorry. Excuse me.

Hello. (to the other kid)

Let me see that again. I think I have it.

Here, give me your arm.

You know... when I was at school, it was all very different.

We used to stay in bed all the time. Combined primary economics...

Combined primary economics was a bottle about this big.

It took a week.

Kids: Wow!