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May 29, 2006
Unkind cuts: Ed Norton on Fox and Kingdom of Heaven
Mike Russell culturepulps Edward Norton, who knows a few things about recut movies. They're chatting up Down in the Valley but Norton offers up a word or two about the release version of Kingdom of Heaven versus the cut released on DVD last week: "That should have been a much longer movie. If you want an example of fear-based decision-making in Hollywood… You know, Alexander is just this incomprehensible, turgid thing, and Fox looks at it and has the most incredible rationale: "Let's look at someone else's failure as the rationale for how we cut our film." Instead of saying, "We've got Ridley Scott and a great script," they say, "Well, ours can't be 2 hours 45 minutes long"—which, in the case of Kingdom of Heaven, it really should have been. So they cut it down based on someone else's failure, and ended up taking a really great director's film down to a really pale shadow of itself."
Posted by Ray Pride at May 29, 2006 03:22 PM
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