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I have a soft spot for the original mainly because of Jamie Lee Curtis who stole the show in my opinion.
The problem with trying to alter the feel of True Lies and make it more "Straight Faced" is that the film's action and feel is overtly comedic and no amount of cutting can alter that fact.
Schwartzenegger steals a horse, rides it into a hotel, rides it into a lift and the villain gets away by making an incredulous leap on his motorbike from sky scrapper to sky scrapper into a roof top swimming pool to live another day. How can this action be taken with a straight face?
Schwartzenegger is being shot at and chased by guard dogs. He knocks the dogs out and in a hail of bullets has time to make a quip "Stay!" to the now dazed dogs. How can this action be taken with a straight face?
True Lies is intended to be experienced for amusement sake. It is exciting but there is no real threat of danger as the characters seem to be having a jolly good time while in "dangerous" situations. The over-the-top nature of the action is off-set by the humour that peppers the film. This is clearly not to be taken seriously. The pay-off to the implausibility of the action is the gag at the end of it. Taking away the pay off lines, however cheesy they might be, relegates the action to simply ridiculous.
The editing is pretty flawless up until the horse chase. The cut just before Schwartzenegger empathizes with the horse is very noticeable as it looks like Arnie is about to talk. There are also a few little things I would have removed such as the dogs reaction shot after Arnie knocks their heads together. This is only there to let the audience know that Arnie is not so mean as to kill a dog. The "Stay" line could have been removed quite easily. Also the line "Here we go" by Tom Arnold as he gets back into his car, could have been cut as it again suggests this has happened before and is nothing to worry about.
The problem with trying to alter the feel of True Lies and make it more "Straight Faced" is that the film's action and feel is overtly comedic and no amount of cutting can alter that fact.
Schwartzenegger steals a horse, rides it into a hotel, rides it into a lift and the villain gets away by making an incredulous leap on his motorbike from sky scrapper to sky scrapper into a roof top swimming pool to live another day. How can this action be taken with a straight face?
Schwartzenegger is being shot at and chased by guard dogs. He knocks the dogs out and in a hail of bullets has time to make a quip "Stay!" to the now dazed dogs. How can this action be taken with a straight face?
True Lies is intended to be experienced for amusement sake. It is exciting but there is no real threat of danger as the characters seem to be having a jolly good time while in "dangerous" situations. The over-the-top nature of the action is off-set by the humour that peppers the film. This is clearly not to be taken seriously. The pay-off to the implausibility of the action is the gag at the end of it. Taking away the pay off lines, however cheesy they might be, relegates the action to simply ridiculous.
The editing is pretty flawless up until the horse chase. The cut just before Schwartzenegger empathizes with the horse is very noticeable as it looks like Arnie is about to talk. There are also a few little things I would have removed such as the dogs reaction shot after Arnie knocks their heads together. This is only there to let the audience know that Arnie is not so mean as to kill a dog. The "Stay" line could have been removed quite easily. Also the line "Here we go" by Tom Arnold as he gets back into his car, could have been cut as it again suggests this has happened before and is nothing to worry about.