Posted by Larry G on 03/22/07 03:22

"Mac" <see.mac@SPAMLESSvirgin.net> wrote in message ...
> ste7ens wrote:
>
>> I noticed while enjoying the DTS soundtrack of my Region 3 "Casino
>> Royale" DVD that the international version runs ten seconds longer
>> than the US version. R1 time is 144:15, the R3 is 144:25.
>>
>> I specifically detected some extra shots during the stairwell fight
>> sequence that are definitely not seen in the US release: an overhead
>> shot of the first guy impacting the floor 4 stories below; a shot of
>> the machete-wielding guy's face as Bond smashes it into the yellow
>> stained glass window; a tight shot of the bad guy's hand grabbing for
>> Vesper's ankle; a shot of Bond kicking in the bad guy's knee; a
>> protracted strangulation; and an additional lingering shot of the bad
>> guy's dead face, his eyes still open. Lo and behold, the intense bits
>> that represent the MPAA's boundary between a PG-13 and an R rating.
>>
>> Not sure yet if there are more extra snips anywhere else in the film.
>>
>> In a sidenote, when Daniel Craig did the talk show tour last autumn,
>> the film clip broadcast during his interview was a snippet of the
>> stairwell fight, and I swore from the moment I saw it that they'd used
>> an uncensored version containing the shots of the over-the-railing
>> impact and the face being smashed into the window. I caught it during
>> a rerun and, having already seen the movie 2x in theaters by the time
>> I saw this, I immediately noticed the extra bits I hadn't seen either
>> time previously. Now I know I wasn't imagining it.
>>
>> Discuss...
>
> This is being discussed all over the place at the moment. The US R1 DVD
> has cuts/substitutions to the opening pre-credit fight and the stairwell
> fight. The UK R2 DVD has had one shot removed from the torture sequence
> but is otherwise complete. The R3 disc is fully uncut. Results for the R4
> Australian and R2 European versions are still to come in.

I recall an article about the film's release in China that censors had
approved a completely uncut version of the film there, which most ironicly
wasn't the case with the version released in the U.S. No sure about Europe.

Larry

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