Alien 3 - Director's Cut Question
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Alien 3 - Director's Cut Question
Is the Alien 3 extended cut in the Alien Quadrilogy Fincher's directors cut?
I'm confused because I always thought they killed his cut, didn't save his edit, told him he sucked, etc etc. But the card before the film starts indicates that this was actually a cut that he showed them.
Does anyone know.
I'm confused because I always thought they killed his cut, didn't save his edit, told him he sucked, etc etc. But the card before the film starts indicates that this was actually a cut that he showed them.
Does anyone know.
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IIRC, the Quadrilogy's "Assembly Cut" was an attempt to re-create what Fincher wanted (with his permission, apparently), but he wasn't involved directly so it can't be considered "official".
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Understood. But it seems like only certain sections of the sound or the music scoring would have been changing. And that the extended cut presevered all of his scenes. It seems like were basically seeing his vision.
I was always under the impression that they junked his footage.
Understood. But it seems like only certain sections of the sound or the music scoring would have been changing. And that the extended cut presevered all of his scenes. It seems like were basically seeing his vision.
I was always under the impression that they junked his footage.
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Understood. But it seems like only certain sections of the sound or the music scoring would have been changing. And that the extended cut presevered all of his scenes. It seems like were basically seeing his vision.
I was always under the impression that they junked his footage.
I was always under the impression that they junked his footage.
As far as seeing Fincher's "vision", his vision was so badly compromised by the studio at every step throughout the production that we'll never know what he really wanted to make of the movie. The Extended Edition is the best assembly of the footage he did actually shoot, though.