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Release Date: 18 November, 1998 Retail Price: $29.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (14 total) |
Dances with Wolves Reviews
back in the days
ive seen this movie in the early 90's and no wonder why Kevin Costner won the best director in this movie, great great epic movie
Great Movie Compromised
I haven't bought this "special extended edition," and won't. I've seen it, however, and I find the additional scenes jarring to the point of distraction, and they don't improve the movie.
I'm a purist. I want to see the film the director wanted me to see when he released it to the theaters. I want to see the film he'd made--not one frame more, not one frame less--when he was done with it. In almost all cases, this is the movie actually shown in theaters.
Generally, I'm not even curious to see the "director's cut," the second-guessing of the filmmaker. Every artist, especially filmmakers and writers, would change their finished work if they could take another stab at it. I guarantee that if Mark Twain could return from the dead and you handed him Huckleberry Finn, he'd take a blue pencil and make a thousand corrections, from changing hundreds of punctuation marks to adding or deleting entire scenes.
The project has to end sometime. And every artist has a variety of reasons why this or that was left out of the finished work. For example, in a hypothetical filmmaker's case, an arbitrary time-length--say, 180 minutes--is the kind of routine limitation (along with deadlines, actor availability, budget, weather, location) every filmmaker has to put up with. If we gave filmmakers unlimited time and unlimited budgets, movies would never get finished because filmmakers would never stop tinkering.
On the other hand, if the movie was censored for controversial content (e.g., the movie showed around the world in one version, but needed clipping to get a distributor here), then the foreign version is the movie I want to see because that was the director's finished vision at the time of the original release.
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