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A moment of silence for the eternally lost eight hour cut of Greed
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 12:57 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:32 |
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I dont know about melted down for silver but most silent films were produced on nitrate film which was known for spontaneously combusting so a lot of storage warehouses just went up in a flames after a few years and the originals were all lost. Most silent films that remain in digital format were restored from copies of copies of copies which is why the quality of prints is so spotty beyond a certain year.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 14:50 |
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In Greed's case, Eric von Stroheim poured years of his life into making the movie and then the studio he was working for got merged into MGM and his new boss was the same guy who fired him from Universal years earlier and to keep up his personal grudge he cut 6 hours from the film and released it. they had to screen the original cut once for contractual obligations so like 20 people saw it and it has a mythical status as an incredibly powerful experience that it is lost to time.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 15:03 |
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the will smith superhero movie (the name escapes me at the moment) has a added scene in the home release where he gets his dick sucked and cums so hard it blows the woman's head off and launches his semen into deep orbit
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# ¿ May 18, 2017 03:58 |