jody@inuxd.UUCP (JoLinda Ross) (11/04/85)
I saw "Sword and Sorcerer on 'regular' TV over the weekend and I saw some strange things. I never swa it in the cinema but I saw it on a movie channel (I don't remember which one). When it came to my local station, I watched it for a few laughs. I began to notice changes in the movie. Of course the usual hacking of the film had been done (this is what I wanted to laugh at), but words were replaced instead of blipped. Also whole scenes were changed. For example at the end The hero is nailed to the cross, but the cut version has him only strapped to the cross. At first I though I had gone crazy, but I have a copy of the movie so I played it. The scenes are different. What is going on here? Did they make to versions? Can someone please explain this? Thank you Joland the land of the sunrise
ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (11/06/85)
> but words were replaced instead of blipped. Also whole scenes were changed. > For example at the end The hero is nailed to the cross, but the cut version > has him only strapped to the cross. Yes, they did make two versions (possibly three, if they made a version for European release, where nudity standards are less strict). This is becoming fairly common. I first noticed it with CARRIE, but as TV sales become a bigger and bigger chunk of a film's profits, the producers are more likely to make a version for TV that won't appear hacked up. There are other cases of multiple versions--CRIMES OF PASSION ran in the theaters with an R rating, but the cassette versions that I've seen have all been the unrated version (which was cut to make the R-rated version). CALIGULA had two versions, an R and an X. So did FLESH GORDON. Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl