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Hey guys. I just finished making my first fanedit.
I've loved movies for as long as I can remember and have been editing my own short machinimas since I was a teen. I've been aware of fan edits for a few years now, and I love how they can completely transform a film. A bad movie can become good, a good movie great, a great movie something entirely different... And I've always liked the idea of doing one. I just either had no ideas to make an edit for, or I didn't have the necessary equipment to rip a high quality source file to work from.
...Until now. Apocalypse Now is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's a masterpiece (duh). I've seen both the theatrical cut and the Redux cut a few times now, and after rewatching the Redux again the other day, my opinion remains the same on it. There's some great, subtle new material included that really fits well with the rest of the film, but there's one infamous section that always gets on my nerves. A section that feels really out of place, going against the foreboding atmosphere and increasing isolation that has been building up around it's core boat crew since the opening credits. It's 25 minute run time turns the pacing from slow into boring, and considering that the events that occur are never mentioned again, it's a surprisingly superfluous section to boot.
So I made a single change to the Redux cut of Apocalypse Now - I removed the restored French plantation sequence. It now runs at 171 minutes long, leaving all the other new scenes intact, and the edit is completely finished already. I uploaded a clip from the edit to Vimeo showing the single cut in all it's seamless glory. Feel free to watch it below, the password is 'reredux' (without quotes), but there are major spoilers ahead for those of you that haven't seen Apocalypse Now:
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