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Comment on Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again”

snooggums@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is often over looked when people wonder why someone might sign up to something that is a trainwreck, and it usually comes down to the final film being far different than the original vision. Hell, a movie can be destroyed during script rewrites, bad scenes, and even during the editing process! Bladerunner has multiple versions based on editing the same filmed scenes. The theatrical version was ruined by insistence on a voiceover and the final cut is the best version due to what they cut out or left in.

This one sounds like the Bladerunner theatrical cut being ruined by execs, and that does suck.

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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The best known opposite example is Star Wars (A New Hope). When George Lucas screened it for Spielberg, Spielberg didn’t know how to tell George how terrible it was without ruining their friendship. George gave his steaming pile of shit to his wife and she and her editing partner literally built the classic we know today from it. George learned his lesson and gave Empire to someone else to direct and his wife to edit.

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- CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  George is the most overrated director of all time.
  
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  - FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One hit wonder as a director. And that hit is American Graffiti, not Star Wars.
    
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    cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t disagree but THX1138 is pretty alright too
    
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- Igloojoe@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  After seeing what Disney did to Star Wars, George Lucas at least produced something decent with the prequels.
  
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thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hancock

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- chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What’s the story with that one? I’m unfamiliar.
  
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  - thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It was a Will Smith movie about a Superman-like superhero who became reviled and then became a bum. It was exciting because this was during the height of Will Smith’s action career and it would have been the first high-budget serious superhero movie starring a person of color.
    
    The original script reads like pure art and adrenaline from what I remember. The actual movie turned into some shit-fest that made a white PR Rep the main character and then shoehorned some weird love triangle with ancient beings and super-amnesia.
    
    You read that right. Somehow, the first big budget gritty superhero movie starring a black man got turned into a milquetoast semi-rom-com starring a white man as a media specialist with no superpowers.
    
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