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June 27, 2006
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER PICKED UP
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the US and Latin American rights to Zhang Yimou's CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (aka CITY OF GOLDEN ARMOUR). This is no big surprise, but a sharp-eyed reader points to the official press release which is a lot of fun to read if you like corporate hot air.
June 27, 2006 at 11:04 AM in News | Permalink
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and let me be the first to say it: thank god it's not the Weinsteins!
Posted by: glenn | Jun 27, 2006 12:55:58 PM
Well, there's the possibility that the Weinsteins may actually live up to their own "Dragon Dynasty" we-finally-at-long-last-care-what-the-audience-wants hype, and then there's the fact that the last couple of martial arts movies from Sony Classics were both cut (KUNG FU HUSTLE and HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) - well, a couple of years ago I'd have said "Thank God it's not the Weinsteins!" Now I can only say that Sony will probably get it out there more quickly.
There was absolutely no comprehensible reason for KUNG FU HUSTLE to be cut - that cut version got a wholly undeserved R rating, and the uncut version would not have gotten rated anything STRONGER than R. And Sony's KUNG FU HUSTLE poster was as hideously awful as anything Dimension ever vomited out for a Jet Li Collection DVD. No, I can't get too excited about Sony getting it instead of Weinstein Company. The only difference is that if Sony decides to screw around with the film, we won't have to wait half a decade to find out.
Posted by: Rhythm-X | Jun 28, 2006 3:43:46 PM
Don't forget the inexplicable censoring of blood splattering in Kitano's Brother. Sure the Weinteins cut out scenes and re-edit with bad dubs included but taking simple violence out of R-rated films is just confusing to me.
Posted by: Clinton | Jun 28, 2006 4:39:49 PM
I think they just tried to get Kung-Fu Hustle down to a PG-13, and when it didn't just decided to push out what they had already. I'm still giving them mad ups for putting out a subtitled film with no recognizable stars (to normal America) on such a wide scale.
And New Line Cinema was the American distributor of Brother. The Weinsteins get a break on that one.
My favorite Mira-ax moment was when I was watching their DVD release of Avalon. Apparently it was far too obtuse for us stupid Americans to follow, so they added a bunch of 1st-release-of-Blade-Runner-esque narration to the english dubbed audio track. The thing is, the added narration found its way into the subtitled tracks as well, even though there was no voice added to vocalize them. So watching the film in its original Polish language ment that every so often words from the rather crappy and unnessecary narration would just hang in the air even when what was on the screen was dead silent (Oshii likes those long, silent tracking shots ya know).
I had to look all this up after the fact, it was just so confusing and nonsensical while watching the movie. Who does that help? Does it really make a movie more marketable if every little detail is spelled out for the audience? Was adding that really going to make a bleak sci-fi drama shot in Polish with mostly monotone colors more popular?
When the studios do this type of crap, I honestly believe that I could do a better job of it then them, at least I wouldn't be activly pissing off my customers with that junk.
Posted by: Max K. | Jun 30, 2006 1:41:38 AM
Yeah the first time I'm watching Avalon in Polish like a good little boy and subtitles were appearing where no language at first was not being spoken. My first thought was perhaps they were subtitling thoughts but it was my first experience with dubtitles, especially ones so obtrusive and pretty...well the only thing I can say, retarded.
More bows for Sony Classics. I just watched the trailer for Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, and can't wait to see it more so than Curse of the Golden Flower
Posted by: Clinton | Jun 30, 2006 5:44:47 AM
What kind of cuts were made to HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS? I hadn't heard that any were made. If its something significan't I'll have to look in to picking up an import DVD. I didn't buy that region-free DVD player for nothing!
Posted by: David Mears | Jun 30, 2006 11:32:01 AM
Heres a comparison at Dvdbeaver that explains it towards the middle of the page
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare10/houseofflyingdaggers.htm
Posted by: Clinton | Jun 30, 2006 4:40:30 PM
Thanks for the link!
Posted by: David Mears | Jul 2, 2006 3:03:33 AM
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