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Fanedit Name: The Ugly West
Fanedit synopsis :
The Ugly West is a fanedit project by TMBTM and CBB. Both faneditors tackle
one legendary Sergio Leone western to present them in much shorter,
modernized and very different to the original versions.
Original film name: Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
New film names : Harmonica
Two Glorious Bastards
Film studio names : Paramount (OATITW), MGM (GBU)
Edit crew names : The Man Behind The Mask
CBB
Date Original Films Were Released : 1968 (OATITW), 1966 (GBU)
Date Edit Was Released : January 2011
Original Runtimes : 165 minutes (OATITW), 179 minutes (GBU)
New Runtimes : 71 minutes (Harmonica), 86 minutes (Two Glorious Bastards)
Amount of time Cut/Added : in both cases more than half the movie was removed
Fanedit details:
Intention : Tmbtm and CBB wanted to do a project together and decided to
take the most famous Spaghetti westerns of all time, not to make them
better, but to present them in much shorter, modernized versions and give
them the true fanedit treatment of turning them upside down. What started as
a fun idea, ended up in 2 drastically altered versions, both serious, yet
highly entertaining for both fans of the originals and western fans in
general.
Trailer:
Editing Details:
HARMONICA:
"Harmonica" is a 1h11 version of Once Upon a Time in the West.
Now when TMBTM started to work on this edit, he planned to make it fun, but
in the end it turned as a serious version.
The first version of the fanedit he made still included the character of
Cheyenne, played by Jason Robards and he added an Iggy Pop song as his main
music theme, but in the end it was the only "fun" thing about the edit and
it was a bit jarring. So he decided to completely removed his character
(adding one more common thing between CBB's edit and his).
Removing Cheyenne was not easy at all, and it turned a "quick made" edit
into something way more difficult. It turned what was just a shorter version
into something way more different.
Forcing the relations of the characters into a new direction through the
removal of a key character was a super difficult task. Cheyenne had no real
purpose in TMBTM's shorter workprint and that's why in the end, he had to be
removed entirely.
The fanedit also has various new music tracks, replacing some of the famous
Morricone score and giving these scenes an entirely new atmosphere.
TWO GLORIOUS BASTARDS:
It all started with the German title of the original THE GOOD, THE BAD AND
THE UGLY, which is 2 GLORREICHE HALUNKEN (translation: Two Glorious
Bastards). Now why the German distributors decided for such an odd title
change is unknown, but it inspired CBB to drop THE BAD from his edit and to
make things more fun, he also decided to try to remove every bit of the
famous and awesome Morricone soundtrack and replace it with Johnny Cash.
While the removal of THE BAD was not that hard, even though it required to
drop some of the most famous scenes in Western history (e.G.the cemetery
duel), replacing the score was a close to impossible task, because the music
is deeply woven into the original sound and cannot be just separated.
Using various complicated techniques and spending months on the audio
recreation, CBB managed to give the fanedit an entirely new atmosphere, not
better than the original, but highly entertaining and very different from
the original.
Each Johnny Cash song was carefully chosen to fit to both the atmosphere and
the contents of the scene, in which it was used. Every song was filtered to
better represent the 1960s audio quality of the original sound.
In the end almost 50% of the new audio is a replacement of the original
audio, using bits and pieces from the original, some other movies and sound
effect collections.
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Cuts removed/added/extended :
Harmonica:
- Cheyenne was removed from the movie.
- Some scenes are reorganized, and/or merged.
Example: the scene where Claudia Cardinale is searching for something in the
house is two scenes from the original movie merged into one.
- New musics. But All from Morricone (or musicians playing covers of
Morricones music).
Two Glorious Bastards:
- Angel Eyes (The Bad) was completely removed from the movie.
- Tuco's brother was removed, because the score could not be removed from
his scenes.
- The bridge scene is heavily shortened.
- Tuco and Blondie are not caught by the Blues and imprisoned.
- Some of the scenes from the extended edition were removed, because they
were boring.
Tech Info:
Hardware and software information :
Harmonica
Software: Premiere Pro CS3, Audacity and others
Two Glorious Bastards
Software: Vegas 8 Pro, Adobe Audition, Audacity and others
Release details :
NTSC DL DVD
extras:
teaser, trailer, My Name Is Blueyoda special
4 trailers for Tmbtm's edits
1 special feature for Harmonica (King Of The Dogs)
4 trailers for CBB's edits
4 previews for CBB's edits
1 special feature for 2 Glorious Bastards (Including Johnny Cash)
1 subtitle extra (sing along with Johnny)
animated menus
Time needed for the edition: several months
Persons involved: TMBTM, CBB and Blueyoda
Fanedit synopsis :
The Ugly West is a fanedit project by TMBTM and CBB. Both faneditors tackle
one legendary Sergio Leone western to present them in much shorter,
modernized and very different to the original versions.
Original film name: Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
New film names : Harmonica
Two Glorious Bastards
Film studio names : Paramount (OATITW), MGM (GBU)
Edit crew names : The Man Behind The Mask
CBB
Date Original Films Were Released : 1968 (OATITW), 1966 (GBU)
Date Edit Was Released : January 2011
Original Runtimes : 165 minutes (OATITW), 179 minutes (GBU)
New Runtimes : 71 minutes (Harmonica), 86 minutes (Two Glorious Bastards)
Amount of time Cut/Added : in both cases more than half the movie was removed
Fanedit details:
Intention : Tmbtm and CBB wanted to do a project together and decided to
take the most famous Spaghetti westerns of all time, not to make them
better, but to present them in much shorter, modernized versions and give
them the true fanedit treatment of turning them upside down. What started as
a fun idea, ended up in 2 drastically altered versions, both serious, yet
highly entertaining for both fans of the originals and western fans in
general.
Trailer:
Editing Details:
HARMONICA:
"Harmonica" is a 1h11 version of Once Upon a Time in the West.
Now when TMBTM started to work on this edit, he planned to make it fun, but
in the end it turned as a serious version.
The first version of the fanedit he made still included the character of
Cheyenne, played by Jason Robards and he added an Iggy Pop song as his main
music theme, but in the end it was the only "fun" thing about the edit and
it was a bit jarring. So he decided to completely removed his character
(adding one more common thing between CBB's edit and his).
Removing Cheyenne was not easy at all, and it turned a "quick made" edit
into something way more difficult. It turned what was just a shorter version
into something way more different.
Forcing the relations of the characters into a new direction through the
removal of a key character was a super difficult task. Cheyenne had no real
purpose in TMBTM's shorter workprint and that's why in the end, he had to be
removed entirely.
The fanedit also has various new music tracks, replacing some of the famous
Morricone score and giving these scenes an entirely new atmosphere.
TWO GLORIOUS BASTARDS:
It all started with the German title of the original THE GOOD, THE BAD AND
THE UGLY, which is 2 GLORREICHE HALUNKEN (translation: Two Glorious
Bastards). Now why the German distributors decided for such an odd title
change is unknown, but it inspired CBB to drop THE BAD from his edit and to
make things more fun, he also decided to try to remove every bit of the
famous and awesome Morricone soundtrack and replace it with Johnny Cash.
While the removal of THE BAD was not that hard, even though it required to
drop some of the most famous scenes in Western history (e.G.the cemetery
duel), replacing the score was a close to impossible task, because the music
is deeply woven into the original sound and cannot be just separated.
Using various complicated techniques and spending months on the audio
recreation, CBB managed to give the fanedit an entirely new atmosphere, not
better than the original, but highly entertaining and very different from
the original.
Each Johnny Cash song was carefully chosen to fit to both the atmosphere and
the contents of the scene, in which it was used. Every song was filtered to
better represent the 1960s audio quality of the original sound.
In the end almost 50% of the new audio is a replacement of the original
audio, using bits and pieces from the original, some other movies and sound
effect collections.
Click this bar to view the original image of 800x993px.
Cuts removed/added/extended :
Harmonica:
- Cheyenne was removed from the movie.
- Some scenes are reorganized, and/or merged.
Example: the scene where Claudia Cardinale is searching for something in the
house is two scenes from the original movie merged into one.
- New musics. But All from Morricone (or musicians playing covers of
Morricones music).
Two Glorious Bastards:
- Angel Eyes (The Bad) was completely removed from the movie.
- Tuco's brother was removed, because the score could not be removed from
his scenes.
- The bridge scene is heavily shortened.
- Tuco and Blondie are not caught by the Blues and imprisoned.
- Some of the scenes from the extended edition were removed, because they
were boring.
Tech Info:
Hardware and software information :
Harmonica
Software: Premiere Pro CS3, Audacity and others
Two Glorious Bastards
Software: Vegas 8 Pro, Adobe Audition, Audacity and others
Release details :
NTSC DL DVD
extras:
teaser, trailer, My Name Is Blueyoda special
4 trailers for Tmbtm's edits
1 special feature for Harmonica (King Of The Dogs)
4 trailers for CBB's edits
4 previews for CBB's edits
1 special feature for 2 Glorious Bastards (Including Johnny Cash)
1 subtitle extra (sing along with Johnny)
animated menus
Time needed for the edition: several months
Persons involved: TMBTM, CBB and Blueyoda