Cutting Words
The Playlist's Rodrigo Perez has read an Inglorious Basterds analysis piece by Patrick Z. McGavin, assessed various issues and assertions and come up with his own summary, which he calls "40-MinutesGate: The Bullshit Report Of The Inglourious Basterds Cut."
McGavin writes that "according to the Cannes program, Inglourious Basterds is 160 minutes. [His] editor Mike Goodridge wrote in Screen International it was 160 minutes. Anne Thompson says 148 minutes, Variety's Todd McCarthy clocked it at 152. The Weinstein press book says 151 minutes." And Perez says 148 minutes.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 16, 2009 at 11:12 AM
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DeeZee
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Five or twelve minutes don't make a difference, when it's still too long.
"He also makes the very practical and intelligent point that Weinsteins and Universal agreed to and financed a 165-page script. Why would they turn around and demand a highly unrealistic two-hour cut."
So it doesn't turn into another Jesse James/Meet Joe Black-style flop for Pitt? Troy's his only profitable movie that long, and Benjamin Button just broke even at that length.
Posted by DeeZee
at June 16, 2009 1:01 PM
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televisiontears
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You almost make me miss DZ. In a bad way.
Posted by televisiontears
at June 16, 2009 1:09 PM
comment #3
corey3rd
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why would Harvey want it cut down to 120 minutes?
1) He's f'n Harvey. He's cut the Zapruder film in half,
2) Harvey can't afford to lose a screening a day on opening weekend, His company isn't swimming in dough.
3 Universal is right now in panic mode with State of Play and Land of the Lost. There's a lot of sweating about over paying for Bruno. Public Enemies might get caught in Transformers undertow.
Now is not a time for precious art on Basterds. There's too much cash that needs to be collected,
The Cannes cut will hit Blu-ray
Posted by corey3rd
at June 16, 2009 2:01 PM
comment #4
DeeZee
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corey: Public Enemies should do alright. Not great, but alright. Depp's more popular than Shia, even if PE is more of a sausage fest than TF2.
Posted by DeeZee
at June 16, 2009 3:13 PM
comment #5
corey3rd
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But Universal needs great out of Public Enemies - Batman & Capt. Jack don't come cheap.
Posted by corey3rd
at June 16, 2009 4:01 PM
comment #6
btwnproductions
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Mann has never been boffo boxoffice. And PE is a period piece, which rarely translates to big business anymore.
Posted by btwnproductions
at June 16, 2009 5:47 PM
comment #7
corey3rd
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somebody in charge of the purse strings believes Mann is going to strike gold. Why else do they throw $100 million budgets at him to shoot films on video? is he a way to launder drug loot?
It's not like he's shooting these films on a shoestring for the sake of art and the soul.
Posted by corey3rd
at June 16, 2009 6:32 PM
comment #8
MathewM
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Inglorious Basterds will bomb so hard that it will force Tarantino out of directing for the next ten years. This will be a good thing. Public Enemies looks pedestrian. Michael Mann is overrated. I've seen episodes of CSI Miami that have stronger "visual fumes".
Posted by MathewM
at June 16, 2009 9:09 PM
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Deathtongue_Groupie
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Yeah, this is something worth worrying about...
Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie
at June 16, 2009 10:16 PM
comment #10
DeeZee
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Mathew: What'll be better is if it'll force Harvey to sell his library of Asian films to companies able to do a good job on them.
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at June 17, 2009 3:50 PM
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