miker wrote:
"I just saw this movie for the first time last night. Guess
it wasn't exactly like the original, director's cut or some
such nonsense."
If it had ambient sound instead of theme music during the
long opening shot, you saw the semi-recent re-edited version.
However, from there it gets complcated. The original release
was most definitely not the
"director's cut." The studio pulled Welles from the project
before he had shot everything he wanted to and cut a movie
from what they had. For the reissue, Walter Murch recut the
movie according to Welles's notes extensive about how he
would have liked the movie cut (obviously, Murch could not
add the scenes Welles never got to shoot). Many of the
changes are relatively small, but some echo in very different
ways. Great movie either way, once you get past the idea of
Charlton Heston as a Mexican cop.
"Loved Orson Welles. Who was the good-looking cantina girl,
sorta opposite Orson?"
If you're talking about the older cantina woman who has the
last words about Welles's character, it's Marlene
Dietrich.
Mark
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