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This was taken from a post Peter made in True Fanedits: Creasy.
I must say that I was pretty impressed with the EDIT. After I was a little preoccupied after I watched deZIONized, because I just knew it was different and I thought about "oh this has changed and this and that" all the time, I watched CREASY before Man on Fire. To be hones, I didn't watch Man on Fire till today, I guess it'll become another dust-catcher on my shelf then (I do own the original, just to be clear on that!).
I never felt that there was something missing. But, a few times during the movie, that something about this felt familiar. You used a few music cues from "The Island", didn't you? I just love this soundtrack (by the way, there is a copy of the soundtrack enclosed in the german steelbook of "Die Insel", highly recommended, I just love the music!).
The only thing I noticed, that was a little bit strange, were actually two things.
On thing is, you created a little continuity error. When Peta is in the swimming tournament, the nun says to Creasy, that today he would be her father (because Peta's parents were out of town). This was a little awkward, because her parents gave Peta the dog just a few moments ago. You should have moved the scene after the contest, so that it would seem that they bought the dog as a present for winning the contest.
The other thing was the title sequence. But it was not really your mistake. I just didn't think at that moment, that Ridley would use some of the music-video techniques, we are introduced to later. Now I think it really fits the movie, but when I watched it, I wasn't prepared for that.
A really nice touch were the additional subtitles you did. They complimented the already existing onscreen textcrawls (don't know how to describe this, I never encountered this before).
Of course you could tell, that the ending was edited. You used music from "The Island" (which fit very well into the movie btw), and the video quality shifted, because you used the alternate ending.
I just have one question about your ending:
How did you get the idea, of putting the conversation about Creasy's children at the end of the movie? I thought this was a perfect afterthought, were did the conversation originally took place?
I also watched the original ending, because I was a little but curious. Man, that was a letdown. The girl survived? What did Tony think when he did it? He shouldn't do less cocaine.
And also, the original ending was kind of boring. After the more fast paced manhunt scenes, this was just so slow and didn't fit the rythm of the movie. Also Creasy just dies, in the car. I mean we are introduced to the "mastermind" of the movie and then Creasy doesn't kill the sucker? Booh!
Creasy really shows how a movie can be changed through editing. Good work!
I must say that I was pretty impressed with the EDIT. After I was a little preoccupied after I watched deZIONized, because I just knew it was different and I thought about "oh this has changed and this and that" all the time, I watched CREASY before Man on Fire. To be hones, I didn't watch Man on Fire till today, I guess it'll become another dust-catcher on my shelf then (I do own the original, just to be clear on that!).
I never felt that there was something missing. But, a few times during the movie, that something about this felt familiar. You used a few music cues from "The Island", didn't you? I just love this soundtrack (by the way, there is a copy of the soundtrack enclosed in the german steelbook of "Die Insel", highly recommended, I just love the music!).
The only thing I noticed, that was a little bit strange, were actually two things.
On thing is, you created a little continuity error. When Peta is in the swimming tournament, the nun says to Creasy, that today he would be her father (because Peta's parents were out of town). This was a little awkward, because her parents gave Peta the dog just a few moments ago. You should have moved the scene after the contest, so that it would seem that they bought the dog as a present for winning the contest.
The other thing was the title sequence. But it was not really your mistake. I just didn't think at that moment, that Ridley would use some of the music-video techniques, we are introduced to later. Now I think it really fits the movie, but when I watched it, I wasn't prepared for that.
A really nice touch were the additional subtitles you did. They complimented the already existing onscreen textcrawls (don't know how to describe this, I never encountered this before).
Of course you could tell, that the ending was edited. You used music from "The Island" (which fit very well into the movie btw), and the video quality shifted, because you used the alternate ending.
I just have one question about your ending:
How did you get the idea, of putting the conversation about Creasy's children at the end of the movie? I thought this was a perfect afterthought, were did the conversation originally took place?
I also watched the original ending, because I was a little but curious. Man, that was a letdown. The girl survived? What did Tony think when he did it? He shouldn't do less cocaine.
And also, the original ending was kind of boring. After the more fast paced manhunt scenes, this was just so slow and didn't fit the rythm of the movie. Also Creasy just dies, in the car. I mean we are introduced to the "mastermind" of the movie and then Creasy doesn't kill the sucker? Booh!
Creasy really shows how a movie can be changed through editing. Good work!