Blood Simple - original cut (Released) — Page 2

SpacemanDoug said:

riftamos said:

springfeel said:

IT would probably be too much work but i wouldn’t mind syncing the original audio to the directors cut , I’ve never seen the original but it sounds like modernized effects were added to the DC.

The real question is if you want original audio on the Directors cut or a proper release of the Theatrical cut. The only place to get truly un-altered copy of the film is the Japanese Laserdisc with a reported uncut run time of 99 minutes.

The UK dvd release is purportedly a theatrical cut of the film (listed at 95 minutes) but it is PAL formated and therefore sped up - the audio will not sync with the Bluray releases. Doing an NTSC conversion to slow the frame rate and resync / retone the audio would be a project but it’s been done before.

I’m hoping MrBrown will share a copy of the UK dvd with me so I can look at slowing it back to the original run time.

I believe the US Laserdisc lands somewhere in between, it has a 96 minute run time but lacks the “Four Tops” soundtrack, however, I believe it does have some scenes and dialog that were later cut and the original sound effects.

I’d still offer to split costs on the Japanese Laserdisc - I’d like to apply some video processing to it and do a 720p scale, I think it will come out quite nicely.

I actually did take care of slowing it down back to its original NTSC speed and uploaded it on MySpleen

😃 Can’t wait to see this! Thank you!

Hello!
Please, I’d love to find Blood Simple’s first original version (or even in the 99min’s Japanese version).
If anyone knows where/how I could find/download it, I thank you very much in advance.
J.

I’m a little late to this discussion but I’ve been looking everywhere trying to find a copy of the original theatrical cut of Blood Simple and have had no luck whatsoever. The best I could find was a copy of the US laserdisc which at least includes all the deleted portions but the Four Tops song is missing.

If anyone here who obtained the original cut reads this and could assist me in getting a copy of it I’d be extremely grateful. I have a lot of rare and oop films I can offer in exchange.

Thanks!

I take it the Criterion BD and DVD from 2016 isn’t the original cut?

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I’d love a link to this.

Thanks in advance!

Great see these comments from people who know of the theatrical version, and give a damn.

I was at Austin’s Paramount Theater the night of the Director Cut premier and had a brief conversation with Ethan. I complimented him on a favorite scene in “Miller’s Crossing.”
DVD flippers were common at the time and I asked him to put the theatrical version on the flip side of this new cut.
Guess my praise for “Shootout at Leo’s” was not as effective as I had hoped.