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What kind of fanedit : TF
Tagline: When the Link is the weakest part.
Original film name: The Matrix Reloaded
New film name : The Matrix Re-Linked
Film studio name : Warner Brothers
Edit crew name : CTRTL
Date Original Film Was Released : 2003
Date Edit Was Released : 2009
Original Runtime : 138 minutes
New Runtime : 110 Minutes
Amount of time Cut: 43 minutes cut
Amount of time Added: 5 minutes
Cuts Removed/Added: Total number of cuts is 125. The ones listed below are the more significant cuts.
Fanedit details :
Intention for this fanedit: Is to give the movie a more purposeful and focused feel. And to make it more immersive and mysterious.
How intention was achieved:
To cut out bits and pieces of dialog between characters that was solely there to remind us that not everyone believes in Neo. I found this to take away alot from the film. The character of Link was the facilitator of most of these lines and disbelief.
By cutting out bits and pieces of repetitive dialog. For example during the "Burly Brawl" Smith walks in while black crows fly away in fear, there is a cut that goes to the Neb with Link Saying "whoever it is he is not reading like an agent" this line was delivered before and the line Morph says "Smith?". Of course its smith the audience knows it's smith and that he is not reading like a standard issue agent. Lines and scenes like this distract from the moment so I removed them.
By moving the revelation that Smith is copying himself to much later in the film. This makes the Bane incidents more powerful and mysterious. By removing the mentioning of more versions of the matrix and predecessors to Neo. These hints and other things make the architect scene less significant. It takes the punch out of finding out that the "One" is just a version of control and that they now have to fight for their lives. The architect is the only one who tells neo this and he finds out when he gets there. Numerous other small cuts here and there and by removing as many cut aways as possible to the crew watching matrix code screens.
Hardware and software information :
Time needed for the edition: 15 days
persons involved: 1
Tagline: When the Link is the weakest part.
Original film name: The Matrix Reloaded
New film name : The Matrix Re-Linked
Film studio name : Warner Brothers
Edit crew name : CTRTL
Date Original Film Was Released : 2003
Date Edit Was Released : 2009
Original Runtime : 138 minutes
New Runtime : 110 Minutes
Amount of time Cut: 43 minutes cut
Amount of time Added: 5 minutes
Cuts Removed/Added: Total number of cuts is 125. The ones listed below are the more significant cuts.
- Cut opening dream sequence of Trin fighting agents and moved to later on and replaced it with a shortened version of flight of the osiris from the animatrix.
Shortened all but essential dialog between Link and anyone else.
Cut Neo flying into clouds in front of the moon
Cut out Morpheus Lock Niobe love triangle
Cut/shortened Zion scenes
Shortened Morpheus and Commander Lock encounter
Cut out rave in the cave
Shortened Kiss in bathroom with persephone. Neo doesn't screw up the first kiss.
Rearranged the scenes during the freeway fight when the semi's collide and Neo rescues Morph and Keymaker to make it seem more like a last second save.
Rearranged architect scenes a little bit for better flow
Rearranged Neo catching Trinity sequence
Fanedit details :
- DVD has moving menus with scene selection menus.
Aspect ratio: 16:9 & Pan & Scan setting is determined by dvd player automatically NTSC for All Regions
Video: 720x480 SD
Audio: 5.1 AC3
Intention for this fanedit: Is to give the movie a more purposeful and focused feel. And to make it more immersive and mysterious.
How intention was achieved:
To cut out bits and pieces of dialog between characters that was solely there to remind us that not everyone believes in Neo. I found this to take away alot from the film. The character of Link was the facilitator of most of these lines and disbelief.
By cutting out bits and pieces of repetitive dialog. For example during the "Burly Brawl" Smith walks in while black crows fly away in fear, there is a cut that goes to the Neb with Link Saying "whoever it is he is not reading like an agent" this line was delivered before and the line Morph says "Smith?". Of course its smith the audience knows it's smith and that he is not reading like a standard issue agent. Lines and scenes like this distract from the moment so I removed them.
By moving the revelation that Smith is copying himself to much later in the film. This makes the Bane incidents more powerful and mysterious. By removing the mentioning of more versions of the matrix and predecessors to Neo. These hints and other things make the architect scene less significant. It takes the punch out of finding out that the "One" is just a version of control and that they now have to fight for their lives. The architect is the only one who tells neo this and he finds out when he gets there. Numerous other small cuts here and there and by removing as many cut aways as possible to the crew watching matrix code screens.
Hardware and software information :
- Mac G5 Tower PPC
Mpeg Streamclip for extraction
Final Cut for editing
Peak and DP5 for Audio
DVDStudio for DVD Authoring
Photoshop for artwork
Time needed for the edition: 15 days
persons involved: 1