Apocalypse Now SE?
11-10-03 | 08:32 AM
#26
DVD Talk Special Edition
Just give me the non-redux cut of Apocalypse Now in its 2.35:1 original aspect ratio, not that half-baked 2.0:1 imposed after the fact by Vittorio Storaro.
Everything else is secondary.
Everything else is secondary.
11-10-03 | 10:53 AM
#29
DVD Talk Special Edition
Protected my foot.
DVDSavant said:
Screencap, 2.39:1 ratio:
Screencap, 2:1 ratio:
I can hear Lt.Col. Kilgore barking, "who the **** stole my helicopter?"
The fewer the merrier!!
DVDSavant said:
The big gripe is the reframing of the movie. Because the 'widescreen' laser wasn't very wide at all, we were hoping for a superduper DVD transfer that finally showed the whole expanse of the frame. The DVD is alas, a tiny bit less wide in framing to the laser disc. It does work out to about 2:1. To its credit, I suppose, the framing never looks terribly cramped or radically cuts off characters, but the grandiose canvas of Apocalypse Now has been chopped by at least 20%. The line of napalm that incinerates a quarter-mile of trees isn't half as impressive as it should be. The Rolling Stones dance on the boat deck cuts Larry Fishburne's leg-kicks off at the ankles. Compared to James Cameron's ideas about reformatting movies for video, Coppola and Storaro are really stingy. Savant's guess is that they just don't believe in 2:35 transfers, or are withholding the full width of their film for HDTV.
Screencap, 2:1 ratio:
I can hear Lt.Col. Kilgore barking, "who the **** stole my helicopter?"
The fewer the merrier!!
