This movie is brilliant, saw it 4 times already. The 2 disc set is amazing.
I read in a film magazine a while back about the other beginning to this film. It sounded good, its below:
A car full of gangsters is being chased by a police car in modernish - ish New York. The gangster car goes into the river and sinks to the bottom. The camera then moves from the car, along the river bed, and each car it passes, it gets older and older, until the camera comes back out of the water to reveal the old New York.
