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Post #688914

Author
FrankT
Parent topic
Idea & info: 'Caligula - The Restored Cut' (concept)
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Date created
8-Feb-2014, 4:41 PM

If this isn’t allowed, let me know and I’ll take whatever action I need.

If there’s one film out there that desperately needs restoration (apart from Star Wars, of course), it has to be Tinto Brass’ Caligula. Yes… it would’ve been a political satire had Bob Guccione not gotten his mitts on it and turned it into a flat-out sex film. But with what the media’s been given to us - can it be restored to what it should’ve been? Possibly, I don’t know. What I do know is that the analysis of the footage by Alexander Tuschinski serves as the foundation for this epic task.

Assuming this project actually does get going, I’ve written up a list of the things that need to be done:

  1. First and foremost, remove ALL of the pornographic imagery.
  2. Sort the deleted scenes into their respective points in the film
  3. Try and clean up the negatives made available
  4. Bring in some voice actors to redub some scenes
  5. Try and reconstruct the music from what so little there is of it
  6. Some colour correction.

I do have access to a portion of the footage required, but not all of it. Even so, this is a pretty huge undertaking for me… in fact it might even be the death of me. So this is only in concept stage at the moment.