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Post #665899

Author
Spaced Ranger
Parent topic
THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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Date created
18-Oct-2013, 5:35 AM

After your "Home Video version" shots descriptions, I went back and added more shot-detail to my last post (and, yes, they match). While doing that, I tried for more clarity on my theory (too many long sentences and parenthetical additions). I hope it's easier to follow now.

msycamore said:

Italian TV broadcast: ... A real botch job, that cut and the remains of that dissolve does at least tell us that this isn't the original editing. So why even make a cut here instead of keeping it as is?

I would say, from it's lack of polish, that it's not GL's bewailed original cut nor the hated WB re-edit. That would make it an Italian TV network re-edit -- like Bravo's 1997 broadcast with the nudity glow-ball censoring, only more so. To quote ST:TNG's Data quoting Sherlock Holmes -- "when you eliminate the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be true".
Or we might try a call (to 1-900-THX-1138?) for assistance. *ring* *ring* "What's wrong?"