Originally posted by Pepino:
if anyoen here has ever seen the old video cassette version where the movie is in chronological order can without a doubt say it is better then the movie trilogy dvd, and anythign else godfather related....it completely blows them away.
i rented it from a mom and pop movie store a couple of years ago, and this version had all of the deleted scenes included in the movie that are in the "deleted scenes" section of the dvd. this is why i never understood why they alway say complete and uncut.
it adds alot of things to the movie from the book that should have been in the movie....never understood it.
anyone know the answer to this??
Ok, sorry for the delay in answering your question, although I'm still not entirely certain what your question is, i got a pretty good idea.
You want to know why, since the complete and uncut version makes more sense and so your wondering why they wouldn't have released it like that. Well, near as I can figure, it's because of time constraints. Coppola had to submit a cut of the movie, trying to keep the story intact and tell as much as possible before shifting to another story,sometimes you just have to sacrifice scenes that really should explain itself without having to be shown to you. Then the studio execs cut the movie to what they think it should be. Execs always keep in mind the length of a movie because it limits the number of showings it can have in a day. Obviously, this probably wasn't such a concern at the time, what still remains true is that the suits just didn't want people discouraged from seeing a long movie. This is why the attention span of the average movie-goer nowadays is that of a ferret. I think those scenes make the movie work a lot better too, this is why I'd love to see them on DVD as is.
