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ohmss said:No pepper, no slide whistle.
Lovin' it, but were you able to remove the "kung-fu girls" as well as J.W. Pepper in the canal chase?
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ohmss said:No pepper, no slide whistle.
Hymie said:Recropping the Film: Why would you alter the film from the way it was originally shot. It didn't give any substantial advantage to the film and a number of scenes (in particular the ones with taro cards) had the bottom or top of the screen cut off losing an important part of the shot. The first 3 films were in 1.85 and while I have no idea why they went back to this for LALD, that is how they shot it and IMO you should have just left it as it was.
Totally get your point. I've never reframed anything before, and I didn't look though it as well as I thought I did. If I was doing TMWTGG, I would've reframed it to, so all the Moore films would have matching scope.
Black and White opening: I personally hate how everyone wants to have b&w openings for Bond films since Casino Royale, as it serves no real purpose but to be stylistic and reference CR. The few elements left in color were good, but after the murder of the MI6 agent and everything goes to color, it then goes back to b&w with yellow highlights at the island scene. This jumping back and forth took me out of the story and made it obvious that I was watching a fan edit rather than simply a version of the film.
I can see why you didn't like it, but I just wanted to give a unique opening to the film to reflect the appearance of a new Bond and his absence from the pre-title sequence.
The Boat Chase: Initially I didn't have a problem with cutting the boat chase because I was for removing some of JW, what resulted felt very truncated and removed one of the real great scenes from the film. The inclusion of a brief snippet of Rock music before JWs brother-in-law's boat is stolen is just weird and doesn't belong. I don't know what its supposed to be other than to cover some of JW's dialogue. Why not just have silence? The song comes in and goes with no provocation and reason and is a big flaw. As for the chase itself, you definitely could have left some more of the actual chase in the film to add that sense of fun and excitement while still eliminating JW. Instead, you shortened the scene way too much and what is left craves you wanting more (much Moore :wink: ).
I never really cared for the boat scene that much, but I can see why someone wouldn't want it removed. It slowed down the pacing, and made for a sequence that was too long and too silly. I completely acknowledge the audio edit was awful, and I hadn't got any sound effects to cover up J.w. and silence would've been too jarring.
Audio: I don't know about others, but I had a big problem with the audio when I watched it. Granted I watched it on a standard tv with no special setup, but when you have to keep adjusting the audio every 5-10 minutes it becomes annoying. I also had a problem with the music you added in, as it was often far too loudly mixed and mostly felt out of place. The use of "He's Dangerous" sounded good on paper, but those 80s metal guitar rifts have no place in a 1973 film. This edit also suffers from the problem that the Bond theme needs to play whenever Bond does something cool or exciting. The last 30 minutes is filled with new music, which is all noticeably done and particularly out of place during the final fight with both Kanaga and TeeHee.
I have no idea what happened there. It must have been Sony Vegas' or DVD Architect's render that caused those problems. I've learned a few music insertion techniques that I'm using on my TSWLM edit.
Like I said, I really liked the film after the first half and though that the Gator Bite edition might become the definitive edition for me. After finishing the film, however, I think I'll stick to the UE. Sorry :-(