And now everything went upside down. Latest reports say Wong has butchered his film (spoilers in the first quote)
[quote=“IMDB”]
I have seen it 3 times in Cannes.
So:
- the redux version is 93 minutes, shorter than the others editions;
- the entire movie is restored in digital and the colors are a bit sature;
- the first images are a little different: Wong has inserted a big yellow-moon in a storm;
- Wong has removed the first two battle scene!!! So we can’t see the first appearence of the horse thieves…
- the main titles & ending titles are different;
- the music is a lot different: Wong has removed the fantastic music from 3 important sequences;
- the editing is a little different in 2-3 scenes: for example, the flashback of the night of the marriage of Maggie Cheung is a bit longer;
- Brigitte Lin doesn’t scream in the impressive lake scene;
- Wong has removed the (dead) cat hanged on the wall in the sequence of Huang and Yin;
- Wong has removed the shot in witch Tony jump on the roof in the battle with the thieves;
- the battle scene of Tony and the thieves is a lot different in the sound and in color-correction;
- the splitting blood of the poor Tony (sigh!) is a bit more detailed, probably digitally corrected;
- Wong has removed one shot (of two!) where the sick Hong Qui is helped by his wife;
- Wong has inserted 2 short (and not very well cut) images of peach blossoms;
- the editing of the very final sequence is different: in this new one there is only Leslie Cheung with long hair;
- 2 shots color-corrected: the stop-frame of Tony Leung and the image of the face of Tony with blue sky in the background;
- Wong has added the 4 season didascalie on black background;
- the subtitles are sometimes a bit different.
and unfortunantly… THE BEST PIECE OF MUSIC OF THE WHOLE MOVIE HAS BEEN REMOVED !!! [/quote] - <LINK_TEXT text=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109688/boa … /106574703”>IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows</LINK_TEXT>
[quote=" Bob Violence / ADVDG"]Nobody’s done a detailed comparison yet, obviously, but according to the reviews out of Cannes, the following changes have been made:
-New opening titles
-New closing credits
-Re-edited fight scenes
-Mixed-language dialogue (Brigitte speaks Mandarin, everybody else speaks Cantonese)
-The original music is almost completely gone, replaced by a more classical-sounding Wu Tong score
-“Added intertitles denoting various Chinese solar terms”
-General picture/audio cleanup (but you knew that already)
The running time is 93 minutes, but apparently five minutes of that are the closing credits, so it’s actually a couple of minutes shorter than the original international cut. No idea what’s missing (the Variety review only mentions “a few dialogue excisions”). The U.S. release is currently set for September.[/quote]
[quote=" Spannick / ADVDG"]there is an aprrox 6 min Promoreel on youtube, there you can witness the the Music and Color Changes.
- YouTube[/quote]