Re: The Mann's Word ...

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: : Well, look what Patty the Dutchie has found! A *new* interview from Amazon.com with MM regarding the DVD version.

: : I'm sorry, but as I read this it all made perfect sense. These changes he states as his intentions are exactly the interpretation I had.

: : "Once we were here ..." 

: : Enjoy & thanks, Patty.

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: Thank you Patty, for finding and sharing this with us!

: I still have a hard time with the DVD; watched part of it again last night; still wish Mr. Mann was asked why he left mistakes in to "further explore characters".....

: (from the interview:)
: "My intent on going back was to make a bigger, richer, more orchestral kind
: of experience. There are more powerful emotions available to the audience if the actual story itself was amplified."

: I just  don't see how subtracting from scenes, adding a bit more to othere scenes, but no real "bigger, richer, more orchestral kind..."??? I guess his idea of a "bigger, richer, etc." is different than mine. (And leaving out the Clannad - this made it more "orchestral"??)

: (again, from the interview:)
: "I took out four or five minutes and added eight minutes. The film's metric length won't indicate the effect. The reason
: to do these changes is to make the story much more profound. Some of these things have an exponential effect out of
: proportion to their length."

: OK, I must be daft; how does 8 minutes of film make it more "profound" (when 5 minutes were cut out...a total of 3 minutes difference....) and why didn't he do this in the first issue, then?

: A million and a half feet of film and he could only deem that 8 minutes were the "profound" ones?????

: Well, I'll get off of my coffee box. Just my opinion. I still have my VHS.

: thanks, again, Patty. An interesting interview...and thanks Elaine, for posting it. Have looked for reviews but have found none.

: Jo


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