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Lemmy Caution
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Re: Blood Simple

#26 Post by Lemmy Caution » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:40 am

Does it still feature The Four Tops It's The Same Old Song? That's important.

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Re: Blood Simple

#27 Post by Roger Ryan » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:43 pm

Lemmy Caution wrote:Does it still feature The Four Tops It's The Same Old Song? That's important.
Yes, that song is still present. To be honest with you, I saw the original "Theatrical Cut" on cable two or three times before I viewed the "Director's Cut" on DVD...and I cannot recall anything of substance that had been cut!

"duck duck" - what were some of your "favorite bits" that got trimmed?

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Re: Blood Simple

#28 Post by duck duck » Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:51 am

They were little touches of comedy, I believe the Director's cut takes out the bit where the main character is at McDormand's house and before they leave he stick his cigarette up the nose of a stuffed and mounted hog.

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Re: Blood Simple

#29 Post by duck duck » Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:09 am

I also really liked the black bartender catching the guy's quarter and saying do you know what night it is?? In the director's cut the "do you know what night it is?" It comes back but just thrown away for the "Same Old Song" to recognize what is happening....

I think things like this makes the difference between a "Cohen Brother's film" and another independent film trying to bring back noir.... but apparently they don't...

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834 Blood Simple

#30 Post by swo17 » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:38 pm


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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#31 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:40 pm

They didn't port over the joke "critic" commentary

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#32 Post by beamish13 » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:50 pm

Ugh, Dave Eggers. :roll:

Also, I was really hoping for the pitch trailer featuring Bruce Campbell

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#33 Post by Drucker » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:53 pm

Pretty surprised the theatrical cut wasn't included, especially considering the tone of the re-release lead-in that accompanies the director's cut.

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#34 Post by beamish13 » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:58 pm

also-no Dan Hedaya interview? :cry:

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#35 Post by Professor Wagstaff » Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:08 pm

Blood Simple is sadly underwhelming. I too am surprised and disappointed they didn't include the joke track.

I also find it interesting that Criterion is officially crediting Ethan Coen as a director since he didn't receive official directing credit until The Ladykillers.

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#36 Post by PfR73 » Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:19 pm

Disappointed. I had emailed Mulvaney when they teased this to let him know I hoped they'd include the theatrical cut in addition to the director's cut. Besides the commentary they didn't port, wasn't there also a joke introduction that hasn't been ported?

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#37 Post by Drucker » Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:36 pm

PfR73 wrote:Disappointed. I had emailed Mulvaney when they teased this to let him know I hoped they'd include the theatrical cut in addition to the director's cut. Besides the commentary they didn't port, wasn't there also a joke introduction that hasn't been ported?
I think the joke intro is what I was describing, and it aired when I saw a print of the film at Film Forum in February. It's a pretty good send-up of general revisionism in Hollywood. An old man does a bit where he says "you're seeing the cleaned up director's edition which used computers to enhance and clean up the film." I can't do it justice, but it's a shame if it's not included as well.

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#38 Post by oldsheperd » Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:41 pm

domino harvey wrote:They didn't port over the joke "critic" commentary
Was going to mention the same thing

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#39 Post by Jeff » Fri Jun 24, 2016 11:06 am

beamish13 wrote:I was really hoping for the pitch trailer featuring Bruce Campbell
I suppose that it might be included as part of the Eggers interview. In the meantime, Vanity Fair has posted the pitch trailer along with a short article about its creation.

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#40 Post by Ribs » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:57 pm

Looks like the Website's listing has been changed to the (correct) sole directing credit for Joel Coen. Could the cover be soon to follow?

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#41 Post by swo17 » Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:05 pm

It's still a film by both of them.

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#42 Post by phred2321 » Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:09 pm

Ribs wrote:Looks like the Website's listing has been changed to the (correct) sole directing credit for Joel Coen. Could the cover be soon to follow?
I thought on their older films Joel got the sole directing credit only because of DGA rules?

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#43 Post by Ribs » Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:01 pm

Beaver

The Coens/Sonnenfeld feature is 70 minutes long!

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#44 Post by PfR73 » Fri Aug 26, 2016 12:10 pm

Jeff wrote:
beamish13 wrote:I was really hoping for the pitch trailer featuring Bruce Campbell
I suppose that it might be included as part of the Eggers interview. In the meantime, Vanity Fair has posted the pitch trailer along with a short article about its creation.
Looks like it made it since DVDBeaver lists a "Fund Raising" trailer!

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#45 Post by DeprongMori » Fri Aug 26, 2016 12:21 pm

I guess I'll need to keep my old copy around for this supplement.
• Audio Commentary by Kenneth Loring of Forever Young Films

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#46 Post by movielocke » Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:27 pm

DeprongMori wrote:I guess I'll need to keep my old copy around for this supplement.
• Audio Commentary by Kenneth Loring of Forever Young Films
wasn't that commentary a gag and not a "real" extra so to speak?

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#47 Post by CSM126 » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:55 pm

movielocke wrote:
DeprongMori wrote:I guess I'll need to keep my old copy around for this supplement.
• Audio Commentary by Kenneth Loring of Forever Young Films
wasn't that commentary a gag and not a "real" extra so to speak?
100% a gag.

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#48 Post by DeprongMori » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:20 pm

movielocke wrote:
DeprongMori wrote:
I guess I'll need to keep my old copy around for this supplement.
• Audio Commentary by Kenneth Loring of Forever Young Films
wasn't that commentary a gag and not a "real" extra so to speak?
Of course it's a gag. That doesn't mean it's not a real extra. (A number of the extras on Being John Malkovich would fall into this category as well.) It's a bit of authorial silliness that we lost in the new release. The overhead was low to keep it, so I'm surprised it got dropped. On the question of whether it was worthwhile to keep, YMMV. I'm sorry to see it go.

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#49 Post by cdnchris » Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:26 am

Ribs wrote:Beaver

The Coens/Sonnenfeld feature is 70 minutes long!
It's actually "sorta" an audio commentary, playing over a good chunk of the film (a select scene commentary you could say), with some breakaways to the three occasionally, and there's even replays, stills, and slow motion bits to focus on certain elements. The three use Telestartors to "draw" on the screen to point out compositions, placements of equipment and mistakes they tried to cover up then (bumps in the camera, filter misuse, etc.) or notice now, along with other things. It mostly plays in sequence though occasionally jumps around to related scenes.

It's very technical and there's a few times where they may be just playing around with the telestrator equipment, but they do use it rather usefully throughout to focus your attention or address the framing and more (it doesn't feel like a gimmick). I rather enjoyed it and thought it was a fairly creative twist to a general commentary track.

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Re: 834 Blood Simple

#50 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Sep 02, 2016 3:16 am

That telestrator addition sounds like it may be a Sonnenfeld touch as I seem to remember he had the same thing on the Men In Black DVD back in the day!

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