theslime
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TM2YC said:The poetic and majestic theatrical cut of 'Dune' was Lynch's cut, unless I'm mistaken. There was a longer rough and totally unfinished workprint but that's not the same thing (And that god awful Alan Smithee cut). I wasn't aware of 'Wild at heart' being interfered with?
Oh and I'd put 'Fire Walk With Me' in 3rd place (Behind Dune and WAH) out of all his films.
Wild at Heart wasn't interfered with, that's exactly my point. David created his own interference when he wrote a script for a sprawling four hour plus movie, presumably knowing no distributor in their right mind would want to release such a long version of such a non-epic film. Why did he do this? I don't know, but in my opinion Wild at Heart has the unfortunate feel of having seemingly random pieces removed, unlike Blue Velvet and even FWwM where every cut made sense. With FWwM he cut the sprawl and instead focused the film on Laura when he cut it down. Good choice. Wild at Heart is still a good film, but I believe it could have been a lot better (unlike the others).
Dune is a different story. It's technically his cut, but when the producers changed their minds mid-filming and wanted a shorter cut, he more or less had two options: go off in a huff and theatrically release an Alan Smithee film, or try to cut it down himself. He chose the latter, partly because he secured funding for Blue Velvet as part of the deal. He is not happy with the theatrical cut of Dune, and he refuses to revisit it because it was a bad experience. Personally, I didn't really like Dune until I saw one of the extended fanedits (which more or less follows Lynch's script).
If you like these cuts, more power to you! They're not bad, and they're still Lynch's final cuts, he just had time limits imposed on him.