| Author | Subject: Re: 2002 TM Movie Soundtrack |
| Francois Beaulieu | Posted At 22:36:06 04/22/2002
What DreamWorks didn't consider is that it was measuring itself (in term of its screen writer) against an extremely well-known classic of literature. People went in the movie theatre expecting to see Wells's story on screen... but what they saw instead had little in common with it. The phrase Simon Wells used in the Starlog interview was "If I don't have the right to SCREW AROUND with the story, who does ?" That pretty much sums it up ! But Simon Wells admitted in the introduction to the movie tie-in book that when he became involved, the basic script by John Logan was pretty well finalized. In fact, some of his comments suggest that he might not have wanted it to go quite that way, but he didn't have much choice in the matter. As for the deleted scenes - considering that some appear on the trailer - one gets the impression that the final cut was rushed. Just last year, "Planet of the Apes" was re-edited several times in the last few days before its release. It looks like they had a similar problem with "The Time Machine". As to the DVD version, I think Peter was just being sarcastic as to why they cut out the scenes but he's right on the money as to why they will probably put them back on the DVD... The marketing people in the movie industry are experts at finding ways of getting people to buy the same products many times over. Just look at "Blade Runner - director's cut" "Close Encounters - Special edition" "Star Wars - all the episodes you saw and already bought but with a few new scenes" and, just recently: "E.T. with new scenes" !!! And we fall for it every time ! |