Posted by Joshua Zyber on 05/29/06 16:25

"Invid Fan" <invid@localnet.com> wrote in message
news:290520061126497407%invid@localnet.com...
>> What would make you think that? Scott's biggest complaint about the
>> 1992
>> "Director's Cut" was that it was missing that footage. If he's
>> preparing
>> a brand new "Final Cut", it stands to reason that he'll put back in
>> anything he wants.
>>
> Ah. I assumed he had cut it from the original version himself.
> Probably
> confused it with Robocop, where the director said he prefered the
> toned
> down version (and I could be mistaken there too ^_^)

You're mistaken in both cases.

For Blade Runner, the 1992 "Director's Cut" was more of a Director's
Compromise. In order to get the project completed on time and on budget,
he had to make some sacrifices. Scott said that so long as the voiceover
and happy ending were removed, and his unicorn scene was reinstated,
that was enough of an improvement over the old version that he could
live with it. But he was never fully happy with it.

For Robocop, director Paul Verhoeven has been very adamant that the
longer version of the movie is his preference, and that it actually
lessens the impact of the violence because it goes so cartoonishly over
the top that you can't take it seriously. The shorter version, though
technically having less gore, is more brutal and disturbing. He was
going for satire, not revulsion.

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